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1.4A fixture is a personal chattel substantially affixed to the land, but which may afterwards be lawfully removed therefrom by the party affixing it, or his representative, without the consent of the owner of the freehold. Cook v. Whiting, 16
cluded. Similarly, the “floor of ‘the house” means the main part of the hall where the members sit, as distinguished from the galleries, or from the corridors or lobbies. In England, the floor of a court is that part -between the judge’s benc...
Foic-Lanpv;’ FoL_c-GEeMore. FOLLOW. To conform to, comply with,
480, 72 S. W. 120.—Assessment district. In taxation. Any subdivision of territory, whether the wkole or part of any municipality, in which by law a separate assessment of taxable property is made by the officers elected or appointed therefor. ev. S...
who, after entering peaceably upon real property, turns out by force, threats, or menacing conduct the party in possession. Code Civil Proc. Cal. § 1159. who first assaulted another.
FOREHAND RENT. In English law. Rent payable in advance; or, more properly, a species of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and particularly on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical corporations.
“Jurisdiction,” “Jury,” “Minister,” “Plea,” “Port,” “State,” “Vessel,” and “Voyage,” see those titles. -
quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.
oe Sil of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1861. Mozley & Whitley.
FORSCHEL. A strip of land lying next to the highway.
Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned by the seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread for baking. Also the proprietary right to maintain such an oven.
tit. prél. no. 5. (Never seised of a dowable estate.) In pleading. ‘The general issue in the action of dower unde nil habet, by which the tenant denies that the demandant’s husband was cver scised of an estate of which dower might be had. Rose....
poration in excess of its tangible assets, a franchise tax is not a tax on either property, capital, stock, earnings, or dividends. See Home
1 Leon. 11.—Libera lex. In old English law. Free law; frank law; the law of the land. The law enjoyed by free and lawful men, as distinguished from such men as have lost the benefit
law. A species of estate held in socage, said by Britton to be “lands and tenements whereof the nature of the fee is changed by feoffment out of chivalry for certain yearly services, and in respect whereof neither homage, ward. marriage, nor relief...
(or Fras. Adm.). ralty Cases, etc., Scotland.
Such persons are called “heirs,” and he whom they thus represent, the “ancestor.” When the interest extends beyond the ancestor’s life. it is called a ‘freehold of inheritance,” and, when it only endures for the ancestor's life, it is a...
Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. But the term is also used to denote the hire paid for the carringe of goods on land from place to place, (usually by a rallroa...
on inland streams or lakes. The name is also applied to the goods or merchandise transported by any of the above means. Brittan v. Barnaby, 21 How. 533, 16 L. Ed. 177;
Fresh water, or rain and land flood.
lish law a frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability of frontagers on streets to contribute towards the expense of paving, draini...
Lat. In the civil law. Fungible things. See that title.
without considering its specific use; land, including buildings generally; a farm.
gabel, rent, or tribute. Domesday; Cowell. GABLUM. A rent: a tax. Domesday;
1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Metce. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustar...
515, 25 South. 863.— Dispositive facts. See that title.—Evidentiary facts. Those which have a legitimate bearing on the matter or question in issue and which are directly (not inferentially) establish> ed by the evidence in the case. Woodfill v.
510, 69 Am. Dec. 475: In re Swift’s Estate, 187 N. Y. 77, 32
GAVELET. An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, e. 12, p. 298. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62
334, 36 N. ¥. Supp. 122. The greatest amount of absolute liberty which can, the nature of things, be equally possessed by every citizen in a state. Bouvier. Guarantied protection against interference with the interests and rights held dear and impor...
1 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 473.—MinNtary eourts. In England the court of chivalry and courts-martial, in America courts-martial and courts of inquiry, are called by this general name.—-Miilitary feuds. See FEUD.—Mili-