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by acts of congress and executive action, the governments of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establishing their constitutional relations to the national government, restoring their representation in congress, and effect...
1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying, or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption; convertible into coin; as, a “re. deemable currency.” See U. 8S. v. North
Lat. In Roman law, a contract for the hiring or letting of services, or for the performance of a certain work in consideration of the payment of a stipulated price. It is the same contract as “locatio operis,” but regarded from the standpoint of ...
to reduce all voluntary deeds granted to his prejudice by his predecessor within sixty days preceding the predecessor's death; provided the maker of the deed, at its date, was laboring under the disease of which he died, and did not subsequently go t...
of the United States, thia term is nsed to denote sums of money received by the government or its officers which, for any cause, are to be refunded or restored o the parties paying them; such as excessive duties or taxes, duties paid on goods sat ho ...
Lat. Things intervening; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected his situation that the other will not be allowed to repudiate his obli...
RELOCATION. Im Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease: a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. 82 N. EB. 366; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359.—Vested remainder. An estate by which a present interes...
. REPUDIATION. Rejection; disclaimer ; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See Iowa State Sav. Bank v. Black, 91 Iowa, 490, 59 N. W. 283; Daley v. Saving Ass’n, 178 Mass. 1...
Lat. In Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Sometimes translated “divorce;” but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50, 16, 191.
Res inter alios judicate nullum alfis prejudicium faciunt. Matters adjudged in a cause do not prejudice those who were not parties to it. Dig. 44, 2, 1. menced between two others; a8, in an action by tenant for life or years, he in the reversion mig...
in individual cases, chiefly given in response to inquiries by parties in relation to litigated suits, or to inquiries by the judges, and which became rules for future litigated or doubtful legal questions. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 46.
Lat. In old English law. To draw back from a contract before it is made binding. Bract. fol. 38.
Lat. In the civil law. An annulling; avoiding, or making void; abrogation; rescission. Cod. 4, 44
Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prretor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction valid by the strict law, or an...
judgment, by lapse of time, or change by death, etc., of the parties entitled or liable to execution, the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution might sue out a writ of revivor in the form given in the act, or apply to the court for leave...
47. To adopt a contract is to accept it as binding, notwithstanding some defect which entitles the party to repudiate it. Thus, when-a person affirms a voidable contract, or ratifies a contract made by his agent beyond his authority, he is said to ad...
in a vehicle, to drive beasts of hurden or carts, through the estate of another. Whep this servitude results from the law, the ex- -ercise of it is confined to the wants of the person who has it. When it is the result of a contract, its extent and th...
the danger or hazard of a loss of the property insured; the casualty contemplated in a contract of insurance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory, ship, etc., covered by the policy.
Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or. contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Traité des
482, 20 South. 80. —Habit and repute. By the law of Scotland, marriage may be established by “habit and repute” where the parties cohabit and are at the same time held and reputed as man and wife. See Bell. The same rule obtains in some of the ...
125, 23 Pac. 462; McCormick v. Bank (C. C.) 57 Fed. 110; Munn vy. McDonald, 10 Watts (Pa.) 273; In re Waddell-Entz Co., 67 Conn. 324, 35 Atl. 257. Collateral security, in bank phraseology, means some security additional to the A ptkgane obligation of...
407, 16 8. BE. 638; Oatman v. Bond, 15 Wis. 26.
95; Thompson v. Woodruff, 7 Cold. (Tenn.) 401; Grevall v. Whiteman, 32 Misc. Rep. 279, 65 N. Y. Supp. 974. An implied contract is one not created or evidenced by the explicit agreement of the parties, but inferred by the law, as a matter of reason an...
166, 26 N. E. 198.—Covenant to convey. <A covenant by which the covemantor agrees to convey to the covenantee a certain estate, under certain circumstances.— Covenant to stand seised. <A conveyance mee arts to the case where a person seised of la...
152; Moody v. Railway Co., 5 Wash. 699, 32 Pac. 751.-Deed in-
A covenant is said to “run with the reversion” when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it
Lat. A rude, unlearned, or unlettered tribunal; a term sometimes applied to arbitrators selected by the parties to settle a dispute. See Underhill vy. Van Cortlandt, 2 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 339; Dickinson vy. Chesapeake & O. R. Co., 7 W.
620, 30 L. Ed. 748.—Deed to declare uses. <A deed made after a fine or common recovery, to show the object thereof.—Deed to lead uses. <A deed made before a oe common recovery, to show the object thereof.
—Entry of cause for trial. In English practice. The proceeding by a plaintiff in an action who had given notice of trial, depositing with the proper officer of the court the néss priue record, with the panel of jurors annexed, and thus bringing th...
607.—Common-law lien. One known to or Granted by the common law, as distinguished from statutory, equitable, and maritime Hens; also one arising by implication of law, as distinguished from one created by the agreement of the parties. The