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56, 85 N. ¥. Supp. 561. _ In Louisiana, prescription its defined as a manner of acquiring the ownership of property, or discharging debts, by the effect of time, and under the conditions regulated by law. Hach of these prescriptions has its special ...
203; Londonderry v. Landgrove, 66 Vt. 264, 29 Atl. 256.
MICHAELMAS. The feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated in England on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days. l Michaelmas head eaarts A meeting of the heritors of Scotland, at which the roll of freeholders used to be revised. Se...
the feast of St. John the Baptism, a festival first mentioned by Maximus Tauricensis, A. D. 400. It is generally a quarter-day for the payment of rents, etc. Wharton.
Lat. Knights; and, in Scotch law, freeholders.
1. A machine or engine for grinding, sawing, manufacturing, etc.; also the building containing such machinery. State v. Livermore, 44 N. H. 887; Lamborn v. stream for the purpose of operating the mill, with due regard to the rights of other owners a...
to convey water to or from a mill.
1-5 Louisi-, ana ;—Miller’s Reports, vols. 8-18 Maryland.
220. Among the civilians real actions, otherwise called “vindications,’ were those in which a man demanded something that was his own. They were founded on dominion, or jus in re. The real actions of the Roman law were not, like the real actions ...
MINARE. In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell. now form or which once formed a part of the solid body of the earth, both external and internal, and which are now destitute of or incapable of supporting animal or vegetable li...
229. But see Bonham vy. Railroad Co., 16 S. C. 634A. 1880, § 19. 499, 35 South. 828. A right of entry on riparian lands for the purpose of fastening booms and boom sticks. Farrand vy. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 186, 12 S. W. 595; Brown...
482, 100 Am. St. Rep. 633: Gulf & Ship Island R. Co. v. Hewes, 183
ADMITTANCE. In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant. (8) Upon descent, w...
101. 15 S. W. 705; Ames v. Hubby, 49 Tex. 705; Holyoke v. Jackson, 3 Wash. T. 235, 3 Pac. 841; Civ. Code Cal. ; 687. This partnership or community consists of the profits of all the effects of which the husband has the administration and enjoyment, e...
L. Fr. To put, to send, or to pass; as, nitter Vestate, to pass the estate; mitter le drott, to pass a right. These words are used to distinguish different kinds of releases.
(S. C.) 44. (8) A road intended for the use of one or more private in dividuals, and not wanted nor intended for general public use, which may be opened across the lands of other persons by statutory authority in some states. Witham vy. Osburn, 4 Or....
L. Fr. In English law. A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It is the proper proceeding when the right of the party, as well as ...
258, 64 Pac. 669, 87 Am. St. Rep. 395; 474, 48 Pac. 753. 44.—Base coin. Debased, adulterated, or alloyed coin. Gabe v. State, 6 Ark. 540.— Base court. In English law. Any inferior court that is not of record, as a court baron, ete. Kitch. 95, C...
65, 33. Am. Dec. 633; Whitney v. Wheeler Cotton Mills, 151 Mass. 896, 24 N. E. 774, 7 L. R. A. 613.—Mill site. In general, a parcel of land on or contiguous to eA water-course, suitable for the erection and operation of a mill operated by the power...
MOOKTARNAMA. In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney. Lat. In the civil law. Delay; default; neglect; culpable delay or default. Calvin, . MORA. Sax. A moor; barren or unprofitable ground; marsh; a heath; a wate...
318. 35 N. E. 369; Babb vy. Sullivan, 43 S. C. 436, 21 S. E. 277; Graff v. Portland, etc., Co., 12 Colo. App. 106, 54 Pac. 854; Coorzaw Min. Co. y. Caro- *‘ lina Min. Co. (C. C.) 75 Fed. 868: Parker v.
RZ. In old English law. A small parcel or bit of land.
gation, whatever form the transaction may take, but is not now regarded as a conveyance in effect, though it may be cast in the form of a conveyance. See Muth v. Goddard, 28 Mont. 237, 72 Pac. 621, 98 Am. St. Rep. 553; Johnson v. Robinson, 68 Tex. 39...
v. Pace, 28 Tex. ere 36 S. W. 377; Reynolds v. Diaisell R. Lt 1 tl. 43: Ward v. Waterman, 85 Jermyn v. McClure, 195 Py Winston v. Burnell, 44 Kan. . St. Rep. 2809 ; Spencer v. Colt. 89 Pa. 318; “People Vv. Wreden, 59
2 Bl. Comm. 298, 295, 309.
or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt. Lat. Dead. So in sheriffs return, mortuus est, he is dead. —Mortuns sine prole. Dead without issue. In genealogical tables often abbreviated to ‘sm. 8. p.”
A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel. c. 1.
judgment of the court in his favor. See Sup. v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.—Movable freehold. A term applied by Jord Coke to real property’ which is capable of being increased or diminished by natural causes; as where the owner of seashore acquires...
Lat. In Roman law. A _ provincial person; a countryman. This was the designation of one born in the provinces or in a city politically connected with Rome, and who, having become a Roman citizen, was entitled to hold any offices at Rome except some o...
77. For other definitions, see Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wall. 62, 21 L. Ed Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U. S. v. Rutland & B. R. es