Category: Property

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ITER

Lat. Im the civil law. a right of way belonging as a servitude to an estate in the country, (predium rusticum.) The right of way was of three kinds: (1) éter, a right to walk, or ride on horseback, or in a litter; (2) actus, a right to drive a beast...

Origin: Civil Law Read full definition →

J. (Md.) 301, 7 Am. Dec

674.—Voluntary waste. Active or positive waste; waste done or committed, in contradistinction to that whi results from mere neg ence which is call sce hl waste. Bouv. Inst. no. 2394. oluntary or commissive waste consists of injury to the demised pr...

J. Law, 402, 39 Am. Rep

606. —Mind and memory. A phrase applied to testators, denoting the possession of mental capacity to make a will. In order to make a valid will, the testator must have a sound and disposing mind and memory. In other words, he ought to be capable of ...

J.) 51 Atl

502. But particularly, in the civil law, a will which deprives the heirs of that portion of the estate to which the law entitles them, and of which they cannot legally be disinherited. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 714; Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 3556, subd. 1...

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JACENS

in the phrase “hAreditas jacens,” which is an inheritance or estate lying vacant or in abeyance prior to the ascertainment of the heir or his assumption of the succession.

John

(or Johns.). Johnson’s New York. Reports ;—-Johnson’s Reports of Chase’s Decisions ;~—Johnson's Matyland Chancery Decisions ;—Johnson’s English ° Vice-Chancél-

JOINTURE

Pa A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the decease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 836d; 2 Bl. Comm. 137. See Fellers v. Fellers,...

JUDGMENT

charged with the control of proceedings and the decision of questions of law or. discretion. Todd v. U. S., 158 U, S. 278, 15 Sup. vy; Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., 18 R. I. 16, 25 Atl. 246, 17 L. R. A. 856. merely interlocutory, although it may finally...

JUDICIUM

As to judicial “Day,” “Deposit,” “Discretion,” “Documents,” “Evidence,” “Factor,” “Notice,” “Process,” “Sales,” “Sequestration,” and “Writs,” see those titles. ; Lat. Judicial authority or jurisdiction; a ...

Jur

288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133. 61, 238. 855.—Perpetual succession. at continuous existence which enables a corporation to manage its affairs, and hold property without the necessity of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting it. By reaso...

Jur. § 558; 4 Kent, Comm

421. The arrangement of assets or claims so as to secure the proper application of the assets to the various claims; especially when there are two classes of assets, and some creditors can enforce their claims against both, and others against only on...

JUS JURANDI FORMA

the city of Rome, and afterwards extended to some of the colonies and provinces of the empire, consisting principally in the right to have a free constitution, to be exempt from the land tax, and to have the title to the land regarded as Quiritarian ...

JUS: QUO UNIVERSIFATES

hdvantage of the general public. In this sense, a state may have.a double: right: in given property, c. g., lands covered by navigable waters within its boundaries, including both “jus publicum,’ a sovereign or political title, and “jus privatu...

JUSTICE

common distinction between them is that that which, considered positively and in itself, is called “virtue,” when considered relatively and with respect to others has the name of “justice.” But “justice,” being in itself a part of “virt...

Kan

797, 51 Pac. 290, 39 LL. R. A. 860; 343, 46 Pac. 700. It ig not in itself an “estate” in the technical sense, and therefore not the separate property or estate of the wife. Cizek v. Cizek, 69 Neb. 797, 99 N. 377, 1 Pac. 104; State Treasurer vy....

Kelley, 11 Minn

493 (Gil. 358); Riddelsbarger v. Hartford F. Ins. Co., 7 Wall. 390, 19 L. Ed. 257.—Limitation of assize. In old practice. A certain time prescribed by statute, within which a man was required to allege himself or his ancestor to have been seised of...

Kennedy, 22 Mich

19. But see Moran v. Hudnas Voy N. J. Law, 581. These costs are now abolished in England by 8t. 6 & 6 Vict. c. 97. Wharton.—Final costs. Such costs as are to be paid at the end of the suit; costs, the liability for which depends upon the final resu...