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bination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances, stated In such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an expert is asked, by way of evidence on a trial.
CY. The basis, in England, of rating lands and hereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and tuxes that are expressed to be leviable or assessabie in like manner as the poor-rate.
Lat. In old English law. A seeker of an inheritance; hence, the next heir to lands.
scendants of the estate-leaver. They weré called “necessary” heirs, because it was the law that made them heirs, and not the choice of ei-
c 48,) and courts of justice concentration (site) act, 1865, (28 & 29 Vict. c,_ 49.) Brown.—Royal fish, See Fisy.—Royal grants. Conveyances of record in England. They are of two kinds: (1) Letters patent; and (2) letters close, or writs ‘close....
bankrupt, the property in bills entered short does not pass to his assignees, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have upon them. Wharton.
Lat. Things brought into the house for use by the tenant were so called, and were liable to the jus hypothece of Roman law, just as they are to the landlord’s right of distress at common law.
Fr. These are, in French law, the immovables of English law. Things ure immeubles from any one of three causes: (1) From their own nature, é g., lands and houses; (2) from their destination, éc. g., animals and instruments of agriculture when suppl...
Lat. Immovable. Jmmobilia or res immobiles, immovable things, such as lands and bulidings. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 160.
PROPTER. A qualified property, which may subsist in animals fere nature on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or other birds build in a person's treés, or conies, etc., make their nests or burrows in a person’s land, and have youn...
the claims of another founded on prescription.
Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the constituted authorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance was formerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully be printed, and in some other cou...
a particular locality, by which the real property adjoining or near such locality is specially benefited, such as the improvement of nighweye: fradin , paving, curbing, laying sewers, etc. [}- inois Cent. R. Co. v. Decatur, 154 Ti. 173, 38
c. 5, against conveyances made in fraud of creditors. —§tatute of frauds. See FrRaupDSs, STATUTE or.—Statute of Gloucester. In English law. The statute 6 Edw. I..c. 1, A. D. 1278 It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the fir...
is also used to denote a reversionary interest; c. g., an interest in personal property subject to the life interest of some other person.
IN PLACE. In mining law, rock or mineralized matter is “in place” when remaining as nature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solid and immovable fn the form of a vein or lode. See Williams v. Gibson, 84 A...
L. Fr. In taking. A term applied to such incorporeal hereditaments as a party entitled to them was to take for himself; such as common. 2 Steph.
609, 86 Atl 340: Thorn v. De Breteuil, 86 App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 849.
121, 30: Atl. 1026, 45 Am. St. Rep. 656. Not a technical legal term, but sometimes used with reference to the acts of an executor de son tort or a negotiorum gestor in the civil law.
581..- There is a difference between desertion and ‘simple “absence without leave; in order to constitute the former, there must be an intention not to return to the service. Hanson v.
g., a trustee holds trust property in right of his ceatui
be several sureties, however numerous they may be, they are individually bound for the whole debt. Inst. 3, 21, 4. In parte sive in solidum, for a part or for the whole. Id. 4.1, 16. See Id. 4, 6, 20; Id. 4, 7, 2. solo alieno, in another’s ground....
this term signifies the ancestor who first acquired (in any other manner than by inheritance) the estate which still remains in his family or descendants. Blair v.
draulic ‘power, being the quantity of water which, under a given constant head or pressure, will escape through an orifice one inc uare (or a circular orifice having a diameter of one inch) in a vertical plane. Jackson Milling Co.
362, 39 N. E. 768; In re Reformed, etc., Church, 7 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 476; Cemetery Ass’n v. Assessors, 37 La. Ann. 335. 2, 56 N. B. 44, 79 Am. St. Rep. 251; Moore vy. Williams, 26 Tex. Civ. App. 142, 62 S. W. 977.—Community property. Com- 89, ...
CIETIES. Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain restrictions) the bysiness of banking.
Lat. A qualified property in animals fere nature may be ac quired per industriam, 4. €., by a man’s re claiming and making them tame by art, industry, and education; or by so confining them within his own immediate power that they cannot escape a...
argumentative. sometimes termed “inferential.”
- ENFEPUOCIARE. In old European law. To: pledge property. Spelman.
in the body (territorlal limits) of a county. In English law, waters whith are tnfra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdic tion of the admiralty.