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496. 279. Smith v. Ladd, 41 Me. 314. 168. —Ast of honor. When a bill has been pro tested, and a third perron wishes to take it up, or accept it, for the “honor” (credit) of one or more of the parties, the notary draws up an instrument, eviden...
TAXABLE. Subject to taxation; Mable to be assessed, along with others, for a share in a tax. Persons subject to taxation are sometimes called “taxables;” .so property which may be assessed for taxation is said to be taxable. streets, and constru...
chase or grant to two or more persons. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance. commencin at one and the same time, and held by one an the same undivided possession. The grand incident of joint tenancy is...
a conipact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract.
Lat. In the civil law. <A third person intervening; a third person who comes in between the parties to a sult; one who interpleads. Gilbert’s Forum Rom. 47.
mands witnesses must find them in competent provision. evidence. Testimony is the evidence given by witnesses. Evidence is whatever may be given to the jury as tending to prove a Case. It includes the testimony of witnesses, documents, admissions of...
368; rvis vy. Kroner, 18 Or. 414, 23 Pac, 260.—Public accounts. The accounts kept by officers of the nation. state, or kingdom, of the receipt and expenditure of the revenues of the government. 588—Adequate consideration. One which is equal, or ...
several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the. cautioner to this right the other cautioners must be solvent, and there must be no words in the bond to exclude it. 1 Bell,
1085. A contract of affreightment in writing, by which the owner of a ship lets the whole or a part of her to a merchant, for the conveyance of goods on a particular voyage, in consideration of the payment of freight. 3 Kent,
c. 14, taking its name from Lord Tenterden, who procured its enactment, which is a species of extension of the statute of frauds, and requires the reduction of contracts to writing. ;
715; Ste phenson v. The Francis (D. C.) 21 Fed. 719. Maritime liens do not include or require possession. The word “lien” is used in maritime law not in the strict legal sense in which we understand it in courts of common law, in which case there...
In feudal law. Slaves, captives, or bondmen. Spel. Feuds, c. 5.
1025. 408, 410; Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. ¥.) 446. 2. 937. ; 722, 895. 747; Steph. Pl. 84.—Trial at nisi prius. In practice. The ordinary kind of trial which takes place at the sittings, assizes. or circuit, before a single judge. 2 Tidd,...
TITIUS. In Roman law. -A proper name,: frequently used in designating an indefinite l or fictitious person, or a person referred to’ by way of illustration. ‘“Titius” and “Seius,” in this use, correspond to “John Doe” and “Richard R...
92 Am. St. “Rep. 461. <A con- Aitional delivery of a deed is one which passes the deed from the possession of the grantor, but is not to be completed by possession of the grantee, or a third person as his agent,
or point out; to set forth, or specify; to mark out or designate; as to aesign errors on a writ of error; to assign breaches of a covenant. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1168; 1 Tidd, 686.
tort
A private or civil wrong or injury, independent of contract, for which the law provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages. Includes negligence, trespass, defamation, and nuisance.
485; American, etc., Ass’n v. Harn (Tex. Civ. App) 62 8S. W. 75; Beals v. Amador County, Cal. 6383. imple interest is that which is paid for the principal or sum lent, at a certain rate or allowance, made by law or agreement of parties—OComypound...
v. Whittaker, 16 Wis. 220; Foster v. Charles Betcher Lumber Co., 5 S. D. 57, 58 N. W. 9, L. R. A. 490, 49 Am. St. Rep. 859.—Private agent. An agent acting for an individual in his private affairs; as distinguished from a public agent, who represent...
attending to the registration and transfer of their stock and bonds, serving as trustee. for their bond or mortgage creditors, and transacting a general banking and loan business. See Venner v. Farmers’ L. & T. Co., 54 App. Div. 271. 66 N. Y.. Supp...
546, 1 Sup. Ct. 418, 27 L. Ed. 254. v. Pope, 28 Fed. Cas. 680; Hamilton v. 100, 10 Sup. Ct. 681, 34 L. Ed. 128; Mobile County v. Kimball, 102 U. S. 691, 26 v. Greenwald (D. C.) 64 Fed. 8.—Oounty officers. Those Whose general authority and jurisd...
CONVEYANOCER. One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine titles to real estate. 14 St..at Large, 118.
Lat. The last. The final and ultimate proposition made in negotiating a treaty, or a contract, or the like.
‘contract which no man in his senses, not
Lat. Uniting of offspring. A method of adoption, chiefly used in Germany, by which step-children (on either or both sides of the house) are made equal, in respect to the right of succession, with the children who spring from the marriage of the two c...
Unumquodgque dissolvitur eodem ligamine quo ligatur. Every obligation is dissolved by the same solemnity with which it is created. Broom, Max. 884.
Lat. Up to; until. This is a word of exclusion, and a release of all de mands wsque ad-a certain day does not cover a bond made on that day. 2 Mod. 28.
wife. A term used of a husband who joins in a deed, is seised of an estate, brings a suit, etc., in the right or on the behalf of his wife. 3 Bl. Comm. 210.
VAGABOND. One that wanders about, and has no certain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob.
the mother, that a man was a Welshman. Wharton.