Found 1337 results · Showing 601–630
3. In Scotch law, a person appointed to transact business or manage affairs for another, but more particularly an estate-agent or one intrusted with the management of a landed estate, who finds tenants, makes leases, collects the rents, etc.
assessed in England on inhabited dwellinghouses, according to their annual value, (St. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, § 11,) which is payable by the occupier, the landlord being deemed the occupier where the house is let to several person...
(Curtesy initiate is the interest which a husband has in his wife’s estate after the birth of issue capable of inheriting, and before the death of the wife; after her death, it becomes an estate “by the eurtesy consummate.” Wait v. Wait, 4 Barb...
sive of the open sea, though the water in qo:
and invested with the exclusive privilege of calling men to the bar; that is, conferring the rank or degree of a barrister. They were founded probably about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The principal inns of court are the Inner Temple, Mi...
Lat. Works containing the elements of any science; institutions or institutes. One of Justinian’s principal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so entitled. See IN-
Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin,
y. Edwards, 74 Ga. 230.—Bad title. One which conveys no property to the urchaser of the estate; one which is so radicaly defective that it is not marketable, and hence such that a purchaser cannot be legally compelled to accept it. Heller v. Cohen,...
Between conjunct persons. By the act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Conjunct persons are those standi...
(Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands,
property passes by conveyance, the transa’ tion is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise. So an ordinary gift from one person to another is called a “gift inter vivos,” to distinguish it from a donation m...
Lat. In Roman law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who had pledged them to him for the rent of the land. Inst. 4, 15, 3.
Lat. Interest. The interest of money; also an interest in lands.
lessee for years acquires in the lands demised to him, before he has actually become possessed of those lands; as distinguished from that property or interest vested in him by the demise, and also reduced into possession by an actual entry upon the l...
fusion of goods; the confusing or mingling together of goods belonging to different owners in such a way that the property of neither owner can be separately identified or extracted from the mass, See Smith v. Sanborn, 6 Gray (Mass.) 134. And see Con...
of ‘rivers and harbors, systems of artificial irrigation, and the improvement of water powers; but it does not include the building and maintenance of state institutions. See Guernsey v.
1. A plea by which a-per-, son sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsi bility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. 286,
Lat. Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin.
of “entitle.” 6 Mod. 304.
land without either right of possession or color. ef title. Miller v. McCullough, 104 Pa. 630;
Lat. A view; regard; contemplation. Diverso intuitu, (q. oa, with a different view.
Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as security for the rent.
Express and implied. An invitation may be express, when the owner or occupier of the land by words invites another to come upon it or make use of it or of something thereon; or it may be tmplied when such owner or occupier by acts or conduct leads an...
oe another, without negligence on the part of owner, or, in cases of fire, shi wreck, inundation, riot, insurrection, or the like extraordinary emergencies, by t the owner of personal property committing it out of pecan to the care of any person. Rev...
Lat. In the civil. law. Building on another’s land with one’s
(C. C.) 89 Fed. 754; Jacobs v. Baker, 7 Wall. 297, 19 L. Ed. 200; Corning v. v. Alger, 54 N. Y. 177..... +: . (C. 0.) 42 Fed. 376; Cowdin v. Huff, 10 Ind. 85; In re Chancellor, 1 Bland (Md) 596: Houser v. Umatilla County, 30 Or. 486, 49 Pac. 867; T...
(1) The produce of land; (2) the offspring of animals.
Lat. So the law is written. Dig. 40, 9, 12. The law must be obeyed notwithstanding the apparent rigor of its application. 3 Bl. Comm. 4380. We must be content with the law as it stands, without inquiring into its reasons. 1 Bi.
be always such that the disposition may prevail. Lat. So help you God. The old form of administermg an oath in England, generally in connec tion with other words, thus: Jia te Deus