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Roberts v. Warner, 17 Vt

46, 42 Am. Dec. 478. —Land damages. A term sometimes applied to the amount of compensation to be paid for land taken under the power of eminent domain or for injury to, or depreciation of, land _ad- Candy Su taken. People vy. Hilts, 27 Misc.

Rom. Law, § 243.—Pessessio

bonorum.. In the civil law. The possession of goods. More commonly termed “bonorum possessio,” : —Possessio civilis. In Roman law. A legal possession, c. c., a possessing accompanied the intention to be or to thereby become owner; and, as so un...

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ROMAN CATHOLIO

great variety of these rolls, appropriated to the different proceedings; such as the warrant of attorney roll, the proccese roll, the recognizance roll, the émparlance roll, the plea roll, the fsswe roll, the judgment roll, the scire facias roll, an...

ROMNEY MARSH

4A tract of land in the county of Kent, England, containing twenty-four thousand acres, governed by certain: ancient and equitable laws of sewers, composed by Henry de Bathe, a venerable judge in the reign of king Henry III.; from which laws all comm...

Rullock, 109 Ga

532, 35 S. E. 52; Donovan v. Pitcher, 58 Ala. 411, 25 Am. Rep. 684. (2) A grant of land which requires no further act from the legal authority to constitute an absolute title to the land taking effect at once. Hancock v. McKinney, 7 Tex. 457. (8) A t...

Russel v. Chambers, 43 Ga

479. In a more restricted sense, a stranger who, on the death of the ancestor, enters on the land, oalawral: ly, before the heir can enter. 7 . INTRUSION. A species of injury by ouster or amotion of possession from the freehold, being an entry of a s...

Russell, 127 Ala

195, 28 South, 703; Rubencane v. McKee, 6 Del. Ch. 40, 6 Atl. —_ Cumulative legacies. These are legacies ro called to distinguish them from legacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often aris...

RUTA

the damages caused by a collision between the two ships. 8 Kent, Comm. 231; Story, Lat. In the civil law. Things extracted from land; as sand, chalk, coal, and such other matters.

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S. § 3547 (U. S. Comp. St

1901, p. 2370).— Annual income. Annual income is annual receipts from property. Income means that which comes in or is received from any business, or investment of capital, without reference to the outgoing expenditures. Betts v. Betts, 4 Abb. N. C...

S. 166, 7 Sup. Ct

550, 30 L. Ed. 6213; Johnson v. Friar, 4 Yerg. 48, 26 Am. Dec. 215. Dangers of the road. This phrase, in a bill of lading. when {it refers to inland transnortation, means such dangers as are immediately caused by roads, as the overturning of carriage...

S. BE

53; State v. Dow, 21 Vt. 484; Mansfield v. State, 17 Tex. App. 472.—Liquor-shop. A house where spirituous liquors are kept and sold. Wooster vy. State, 6 Baxt. (Tenn.) 534. —Liquor tax certificate. Under the excise laws of New York, a certificate...

S. C; 372, 7 S. 601

—Forcible entry. See that title—Re-entry. The resumption of the possession of leased prenu by the landlord on the tenant’s failure to pay the stipulated rent or otherwise to keep the conditions of the lease. Open entry. An entry upon real estat...

SALARY

species of foreign attachment; that which a creditor, by the permission of the president of a tribunal of first instance or a juge de paiz, may exercise, without preliminary process, upon the effects, found within the commune where he lives, belongin...

Sanders v. McAffee, 42 Ga

250. A bona fide purchaser is one. who buys property of another without notice that some third person has a right to, or interest in, such property, and pays a full and fair price for the same, at the time of such purchase, or before he has notice of...

Sanford v. Prentice, 28 Wis

358.—Qualifi fee. See Free.—Qualified indorsement. Se INDORSEMENT.—Quahfied oath. See OATH. ed privilege. In the law of libel and slander, the same as conditional privilege. See PRIVILEGE.—Qualified property. See PRopP- ERTY.—Qualified vote...

SANITARY AUTHORITIES

SANITARY AUTHORITIES. In Enzglish law. Bodies having jurisdiction over their respective districts in regard to sewerage, drainage, scavenging, the supply of water, the prevention of nulsances and offensive trades, etc., all of which come under the he...

Sarlis v. U. §., 152 U. 8

570, 14 Sup. Ct. 720, 38 L. Ed. 556.—Malt mulma. A quern or malt-mill.—_Malt-shot, or malt-scot. <A certain payment for making malt. Somner.— Malt-taxz. An excise duty upon malt in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 313; 2 Steph. Comm. 581.

Sat da of Henry III

2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 91, —Capitalis justiciarius banci. Chief justice of the bench. The title of the chief justice of the (now) court of common pleas, first mentioned in the first year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.—Capitalis justiciarius toti...