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276; Id. 354. ADVICE. View; opinion: the counsel 562. ATTERMINARE. In old English law. 412, 46 N. Y. Supp. 689; Civ. Code Cal. 1908, § 2218. <A person having the enjoymeut of property of which a trustee, executor, etc., has the legal possession. T...
Lat. With a different view, purpose, or design; in a different view or point of view; by a different
Lat. I give, I say, I adjudge. Three words used in the Roman law, to express the extent of the civil juris- _ diction of the pretor. Do denoted that he gave or granted actions, exceptions, and judices; dico, that he pronounced judgment; addico, that ...
(C. C.) 43 Fed. 219;
negligence merely, in greater or less degree. The policy of the law may sometimes treat extreme culpa as if it were dolus, upon the maxim culpa dolo comperatur. A person is always liable for dolus producing damage, but not always for culpa producing ...
Lat. Domain; demain; demesne. <A lordship. That of which one has the lordship or ownership..-That which remains under the lord’s immediate charge and control. Spelman.
this means a country which at one time formed part of the dominions of a foreign state or potentate, but which by conquest or cession has me a per of the dominions of the British crown., 5 Best & S. a nore extlistment act. The statute 59 Geo. III. c....
Lat. Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which a man may have an absolute property. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.
lied to the conveyance of estates tail. 2 Bi.
estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 3
then actually seised, whereas, if the recovery were had against another person, and the tenant in tail were vouchee, it barred every latent right and interest which he might have in the lands recovered. 2 Bl. Comm. 359.—Double waste. When a tenant ...
. 844; Jones v. State, 120 Ala. 303, 25 . 204; Siberry v. State, 183 Ind. 677, 33
L. Fr. A gift. Otherwise written “don” and “done.” The thirty-fourth chapter of Britton is entitled “De Douns.”
218; Herrick v. Borst, 4 Hill (N. Y.) 652; Atwater v. American Exch.
Stones dividing lands, ete. Cowell.
his use; (8) of all lands to which, at the time of his death, he had a perfect equity, having paid all the purchase money therefor. ®
matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. if cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but will, as a matter of course, accrue to the riparian proprietor. Watson v. Knowles, 13 R. I. 641.
DRUG. The general name of substances used in medicine; any substance, vegetable, animal, or mineral, used in the composition or preparation of medicines. The term is also applied to materials used in dyeing and in chemistry. See Collins v. Banking Co...
177; Lobdell v. Keene, Minn. 90, 88 N. W. 426; Dyer v. Reitz, 14 Mo. App. 45.—Unity of possession. Joint possession of two rights by several titles, as where a lessee of land acquires the title in fee-simple, which extinguishes the lease. The term ...
(Del.) 879; jae v. Williamson, 2 N. J. Eq. 85.—Testa~ men causes. In English law. Causes or matters relating to the probate of wills, the pranting of administrations. and the suing for gacies, of which the ecclesiastical courts have jurisdiction. 3...
The name of a rack in the Tower, 80 called after a minister of Henry VI. who sought to introduce it into England.
HAVEN. A place of a large receipt and safe riding of ships, so situate and secured by the land circumjacent that the vessels thereby ride and anchor safely, and are protected by the adjacent land from dangerous or violent winds; as Milford Haven, Ply...
Lat. During. A word of limitation in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 284d. —Durante absentia. During absence. In some jurisdictions, administration of a decedent’s estate is said to be granted durante absentia in cases where the absence of the proper ...
12 Rhode Is- ‘land. l ; Durie. Durie’s Scottigh Court of Session ‘Durn.& 5B. Durnford & East’s English
v. State Board of Assessors, 61 N. J. Law, 461, 39 Atl. 638; People v. Knight, 174 N. Y¥. 475, 67 N. E. 65, 63 L. R. A. 87.—Personal franchise. A franchise of corporate existence, or one which authorizes the formation and existence of a corporatio...
470, 28 N. E. 283, 6 L. R. A. 686.—Oonditional guaranty. One which depends upon some extraneous event, beyond the mere default of the principal, and generally upon notice of the guaranty, notice of the principal’s default, and reasonable diligenc...
516; Sweet.—Secondary easement. One which is appurtenant to the primary or actual easement; every easement includes such “secondary easements,” that is, the right to do such things as are necessary for the full enjoyment of the easement itself....
means the amount owned by the company over and above its capital and actual liabilities. rohibited from doing something otherwise law- ‘ul upon his estate, because it will affect the dominant estate, (as interrupting the light and air from the lat...
would embrace the whole estate; but the word “effects” alone must be confined to personal estate simply, unless an intention appears to the contrary. Schouler, Wills, § 509. See Adams v. Akerlund, 168 Ill. 632, 48 N. E. 454; Ennis v. Smith, 14 H...
210. As all trusts are executory in this sense, that the trustee is bound to dispose of the estate according to the tenure of his trust, whether