A friborg, or decennary; called
by the Saxons, “gyldscipes,” and its members, “géldones” and “congildones.” Spelman. —Gild-hall. See GUILDHALL.—Gild-rent.
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A LATERE
Lat. From the side. In connection with the succession to property, the term means “collateral.” Bract. fol. 200.
A non-negotiable evidence of debt
or debenture, issued by authority of a court of chancery, as a first liea upon the property of a debtor coree in the hands of a receiver. Beach, E —Receivers of wreck. Persons appointed by the English board of trade. The uties of a receiver of wrec...
A ppent of Hotchkiss
32 of interpleader. A means of determining the richt to property claimed by each of two or more persons, whi
A PRENDRE
L. Fr. To take. Bref éA prendre la terre, a writ to take the land. Fet Ass. § 51. A right to take something out of the soil of another is a profit A prendre, or a right coupled with a profit. 1
A RENDRE
(Fr. to render, to yicld) That which is to be rendered, yielded, or paid. Profits A rendre comprehend rents aud services. Ham. N. P. 192.
A RUBRO AD NIGRUM
Lat. From the red to the black; from the rubric or title of a statute, (which, anciently, was in red letters,) to its body, which was in the ordinary black. Tray. Lat. Max.; Bell, “Ravric.”
A. 790, 16 Am. St. Rep
224; Whallon v. Gridley, 51 Mich. 508, 16 N. W. 876.—County sessions. In England, the court of general quar ter sessions of the peace held in every county once in every quarter of a year. Mozley & Whitley —County-town. The county-seat; the town i...
AB AOTIS
Lat. An. officer having eharge of actu, public records, registers, jour- Dals, or minutes; an officer who entered on record the acta or proceedings of a court; a elerk of court; a notary or actuary. Calvin. Lex. Jurid. See “Acta.” This, and the s...
AB EXTRA
(Lat. evira, beyond, without.) From without. Lunt v. Holland, 14
AB INCONVENIENTI
From hardship, or inconvenience. An argument founded upon the hardship of the case, and the inconvenience or disastrous consequences to which a different course of reasoning would lead.
AB INTESTATO
Lat. In the civil law. From an intestate; from the intestate; in case of intestacy. Hereditas ab intcstato, an inheritance derived from an intestate. Inst. 2, 9, & Successio ab intestato, succession to an intestate, or in case of intestacy. Id. 3, 2,...
ABAMITA
as in the feudal law, and from which the English “alienation” has been formed. Inst. 2, 8, pr.; Id. 2, 1, 40; Dig. 50, 16, 28.
Abbott v. Mayfield, 8 Kan. App
387, 56 Pac. 827; Hibbard v. Thompson, 109 Mass. 288. The term is occasionally applied to lawyers, and then means generally any evil practice in a professional capacity, but rather with reference to the court and its practice and process than to the ...
ABJURATION OF ALLEGIANCE
Qne of the steps in the process of naturalizing an alien. It consists in a formal declaration,. made by the party wnder oath before a competent authority, that he renounces and abjures all the allegiance and fidelity. which he owes to the soverelgn w...
ABSQUE ALIQUO INDE REDENDO
(Without rendering anything therefrom.) A grant from the crown reserving no rent. 2
ABUTTALS
(From abut, cg. v.) Commonly defined “the buttings and boundings of lands, east, west, north, and south, showing on what other lands, highways, or places they abut, or are limited and bounded.” Covor -Toml.
ACCOMMODATION LANDS. TIand
hought by a bullder or speculator, who erects houses thereon, and then leases portions thereof upon an fmproved ground-rent,
ACCUMULATIONS
this term refers to the fund which the company has in excess of its capital and Ilabilities. Trenton Iron Co. v..Yard, 42 N. J.
ACT
ACROSS. Under a grant of a right of. way across the plaintiff's lot of land, the grantee has not a right to enter at one place, go partly across, and then come out at another place on the same side of the lot. Comstock v. Van Deusen, 5 Pick. (Mass.) ...
Acts
35, 109.) that is, before the reign of Richard I., although practice any house is an ancient messuage if it was erected before the time of living memory, and its origin cannot be proved to be modern.—Ancient lights. Lights or windows in a house, wh...
AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DEFUNC
TI. For collecting the goods of the deceased. See ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES.
AD COMPARENDUM
obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him.
AD VALOREM
AD VALOREM. According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property ; the latter where it is imposed as a fixed sum on each article of a class without reg...
Adams, 10 How
308, 13 L. Ed. 417. —Jactus lapilli. The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civil Jaw, of interrupting prescription. re one per son was building on another’s ground, and in this way acquiring a right by wsucapio, the true owner...
ADEMPTIO
story on an old building is not an addition. Updike v. Skillman, 27 N. J. Law, 132. Lat. In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst. 2, 21, pr. Where it was expressly transferred from one person to another, it was called translai...
ADEMPTION
ADEMPTION. ‘he revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, accurding to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an ex- . press revocation of it. Kenaday...
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
The management and settlement -of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator who has no executor, performed under the supervision of a court, by a person duly qualified and legally appointed, and nsually involving (1) the collection of the deceden...
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during the minority of such executor, and until he shall attain his lawful age to act.
ADMINISTRAVIT
Lat. He has administered. Used in the phrase plene adminfstravit, which is the name of a plea by an executor or administrator to the effect that he has “fully adininistered” (lawfully disposed of) all the assets of the estate that have come to hi...