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128; Moorefield v. State, 5 Lea (Tenn.) 348; Owen v. State, 31 Ala. 389, —O costs. <A verdict is said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the payment of his costs as incident to such verdict.—Carry on b...
v. Martien, 27 Mont. 437, 71 Pac. 470; Weld v. May, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 189; In re Millward-Cliff Cracker Co.’s Estate, 161 Pa. 167, 28 Atl. 1072. —Treasurer, lord high. Formerly the chief treasurer of England, who had charge of the moneys in the exc...
MYSTERY. A trade, art, or occupation. 2 Inst. 668. Masters frequently bind themselves in the indentures with their apprentices to teach them their art, trade, and mystery. State v. Bishop, 15 Me. 122; Barger v. Caldwell, 2 Dana (Ky.) 131.
v. Anderson, 97 Tex. 432, 79 S W. 517.—Managin agent. <A person who is invested with genera pow er. involving the exercise of judgment and iscretion, as distinguished from an ordinary agent or employé, who acts in an inferior capacity, and under t...
18 L. R. A. 708; Rohr v. Gray, 80 Md. 274, 30 Atl. 632.—Public property. This term is commonly used as a designation of those things which are publict jurie, (q. v.,) and therefore considered as being owned by “the public,” the entire state or ...
384.—Privileged communication. In the law of evidence. A communication made to a counsel, solicitor, or attorney, in professional confidence, and which he is not permitted to divulge; otherwise called a “confidential communication.” 1 Starkie, ...
641; Earle y. Board of Education, 5 Cal. 489; Dundee Mortgage. etc..
425, 54 Atl. 548. 485; Ex parte Crafts, 28 S. C. 281, 6 S. E. 718; In re Miller’s Estate, 166 Pa. 97, 81 Atl. 58. 150, 57 Atl. 505, 44. Credits given by two persons mutually; 4. c.. each giving credit to the other. It is a more extensive phrase ...
588, 72 Am. St. Rep. 666. They may also be either of necessity or of convenience. The former is the case where the easement is indispensable to the enjoyment of the dominant estate; the latter, where the easement increases the facility, comfort, or c...
17. 12 N. W. 893, 13 N. W. 784. The term is commonly used in reference to personal property; but it is not incorrect, in some cases, to apply it to realty, e. g., “assignee of the reversion.” ;
706.—Permanent building and loan association. One which issues its stock, not all at once or in series, but at any time when application is made therefor.
228, 49 N. W. 862. —Stakeholder primarily means a person with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bet or wager, (g. v.,) but it is more often used to mean a person who holds money or property which is claimed by rival claimants, but i...
167.—Ship’s papers. The papers which must: be carried by a vessel on a voyage, in order to furnish evidence of her national character. the nature and destination of the cargo, and of compliance with the navigation laws. The ship’s papers are of...
470. -—Fee-farm rent. The rent reserved on granting a fee-farm. It might be one-fourth the value of the land, according to Cowell; one-third, accormne to other authors. Spelman; Termes de la Ley: 2 Bl. Comm. 48. Fee-farm rent is a rent-charge issui...
341, 60 N. W. 591. —Benefit building society. The onniaet name for what is now more commonly called a “building society,” Ag. v.)—Benefit of cession.
163. So, a latent defect in the title of a vendor of land .is one not discoverable by inspection made with ordinary care. Newell y. Turner, 9 Port. (Ala.) 422.—Latent equity. See Equity.
73 Cal. 590, 15 Pac. 290. 2
NEGRO. The word. “negro” means A& black man, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto. Felix v. State, 18 Ala. 720. But the laws of the different states are not uniform in this respect, some including in the de...
v. Jersey City, 42 N. J. Law, 97.
v. Prebcott, 40 N. H. —_ portions. When a landed estate is settled on an eldest son, it is generally burdened with the payment of specific sums of money in favor of his brothers and sisters. A direction to this effect is called a direction for “r...
oN N.Y. 7550. —~Incorporeal hereditaments. ee HEREDITAMENTS.—Ine corporeal property. In the civil law. That which consists in legal right merely. The same as choses in action at common law.—Incorporeal things. In the civil law. Things which can...
Lat. In the civil law. <A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prenomen,) from his surname or family name, (cognomen,) and...
Lat. He did not demise. A plea resorted to where a plaintiff declared upon a demise without stating the indenture in an action of debt for rent. Also, a plea in bar, in replevin, to an avowry for arrears of rent, that the avowant did not demise.
Lat. He did not hold This is the name of a plea in bar in re plevin, by which the plaintiff alleges that he did not hold in manner and form as averred, being given in answer to an avowry for rent in arrear. See Rosc. Real Act. 638.
continuous or discontinuous easement. Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 262. See
non-apparent or discontinuous easement.
v. Carland, 5 Mont. 146, 8 Pac. 184: Missouri v. Lewis. 101 U. S. 25, 25 T.. Ed. 989; Cotting v. Godard. 183 U. S. 79, 22 Sup. Ct. 30, 46 lL. Ed. 92: State Board of Assessors v. Central R. Co.. 48 N. J. Law, 146. 4 Atl. 578: Minneapolis & St. L. R. C...
the same effect as the indorsement “Not a true bill” or “Jgnoramus.” Lat. In Roman law. A draughtsman; an amanuensis; a short-hand writer; one who took notes of the proceedings in the senate or a court, or of what was dictated to him by ano...
Lat. Denunciation of, or protest against, a new work. This was a species of remedy in the civil law, available to a person who thought his rights or his property were threatened with injury by the act of his neighber in erecting or demolishing any st...
(Latest Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos