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Lat. Fear; terror. In a technical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and not arising out of mere timidity, but such as might fall upon a man of courage. Fear must be of this description in ...
485, 9 Am. Re 603; Miller v. Browarsky, 130 Pa. 372, 18 Atl. 643.—Warehouse system. A system of public stores or warehouses, established or authorized by law, called “bonded warehouses,” in which an importer may deposit goods imported, in the c...
y. Grizzell, 198 Ill. 313. 65 N. E. 74. —Lineal descent. See DeEscENT.—Lineal warranty. A warranty by an ancestor from whom the title did or might have come to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 301; Rawle, Cov. 80. v. Champion Min. Co. (C. C.) 63 Fed. 544,
221, 58 N. W. 982. ae 174, 39 N. W. 312, 12 Am. St. Rep. 631. —Assessment roll In taxation. The list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors, not as it appears after review and equalization. 13...
sen not authorized by the. owner or person to whom the carrier or warehouseman is bound by his contract to deliver it. Cleveland, etec., R. Co. v. Potts, 88 Ind. App. 564, 71 N. E. 689; Forbes v. Boston & L. R. Co., 133 Mass. 1356.
349. A promise to be “responsible” for the contract of another is a guaranty rather than a suretyship. Bickel v. Auner, 9 Phila. (Pa.) 499.
As to mixed “Action,” “Blood,” “Contract,” “Government,” s Jury,” “larceny,” “Marriage,” “Nuisance,” “Policy,” “Presumption,” “Property,” “Tithes,” and “War,” see those titles.
580, 5 Sup. Ct. 247, 28 L, Ed. 798. (4) A bounty or ‘reward paid to one who pursues and kills a bandit or outlaw and produces his head as evidence; the offer of such a reward being poouleny called “patting a price on his head.” —Head of ereek...
Fr. In old English practice. A showing of deeds;. a species of profert. Cowell.
393, 53 N. EB. 767. 538 TL. R. A. 753. Express trusts are those which are created in express terms in the deed, writing, or will,-while implied trusts are those which, without being expressed, are deducible from the nature of the transaction, as matt...
ROOM. <A house or room of strength, In cathedrals, collegiate churches, castles, colleges, public buildings, etc., purposely made for keeping deeds, charters, writings, etc. 3 Inst. 170.
528, 9 Pac. 738; Morbey v. Railway Co., 116 Iowa, 84, 89 N. W. 105.—Gene and special findings. Where issues of fact in a case are submitted to: the court by consent of parties to be tried without a jury, the “finding” is the decision of the cou...
Lat. In the law of bailments. <A loan for consumption; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind and quantity. Story, Bailm. § 228; Payne v. Gardiner, 29 N. Y. 167; Downes...
114. Oonsent fudgment. One entered upon the consent of the parfties, and in pursuance of their agreement as to what the terms of the judgment shall be. Henry v. Hilliard, 120 N. C. 478, 27 S.
GOOLE. In old English law. <A breach in a bank or sea wall, or a passxge worn by the flux and reflux of the sea. St. 16 & 17
585. —Lloyd’s bonds. The name of a class of evidences of debt, used in England; being acknowledgments, by a borrowing company made under its seal, of a debt incurred and actually due by the company to a contractor or other person for work done, g...
117, 43 N. E. 582. Synonyms. The contract of “sale” is
L. ¥r. Avillein; a born slave; a bondwoman.
(Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.
Lat. In old English law, a native; specifically, one born into a condition of servitude; a born serf or villein. —Nativa. A niefe or female villein. So called because for the most part bond by nativity.
position to the term “legal;” and then it means proceeding from or determined - by physfcal causes or conditions, as distinguished from positive enactments of law, or attributable to the nature of man rather than to the commands of law, or based ...
Lat. In the civil law. Nautical or maritime interest; an extraordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage; corresponding to interest on contracts of bottomry or respondentia in English anA American mari...
cluded, though navigable in fact, thus making the character of being a navigable stream dependent on the occurrence of the necessity of public use. Capability of being used for useful purposes of navigation, of trade and travel, in the usual and ordi...
Lat. Necessary; unavoidable; indispensable; not admitting of
Lat. In the civil law. An obligation; a close connection; relationsbip by blood. Cavin.
260, 36 Atl. 668; Tennessee Bond Cases, 114 U. S. 663, 5 Sup. Ct. 9714, 29 L. Ed. 281.—Coupon notes. Promissory notes with coupons attached, the coupons being notes for interest written at the bottom
empowered by them, in which the public acts, resolves, advertisements, and notices are requir ed to be published. Albany County v. Chaplin, 5 Wyo. 74, 37 Pac. 370. Lat. In Roman law. Bound; bound persons. A term applied to such insolvent debtors as ...
Lat. In Roman law. In ancient times the nerum seems to have been a species of formal contract, involving a loan of money, and attended with peculiar consequences, solemnized with the “copper and balance.” Later, it appears to have been used as a ...
Lat. Nothing. Often contracted to “nil.” The word standing alone is the name of an abbreviated form of return to a writ made by a sheriff or constable, the fuller form of which would be “nihil est” or “nihil habet,” according to circumsta...
man law. Obligations contracted by Ktere (i. 6., literis obligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptto) from the creditor's day-book fadverseria) into his ledger, (codez.)