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ing the management or distribution of property, or for making an arrangement between persons having conflicting rights. Thus, in the practice of the chancery division, where the execution of a charitable trust in the manner directed by the founder is...
30.—Proof of debt. The formal establishment by a creditor of his debt or claim, in some prescribed manner, (as, by his affidavit or otherwise.) as a preliminary to its allowance, along with others, against an estate or property to be divided, such ...
Lat. In old English law: A searcher or bailiff of a river; a waterbailiff, whose business was to look to the king’s rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de
contradistinction to that which is surrounded or inclosed between narrow headlands or promontories. People v. Richmond County, N. Y. ; U. 8S. v. Grush, 26 Fed. Cas. 48; U. 8S. v. Rodgers, 150 U. S. 249, 14 page Ct. 100, 37 simply as “the seal of t...
SEAWAN. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads (or wam-' pum) which passed among the Indians as money. Webster.
lIat. But by the court This phrase fs used in the re ports to introduce a statement made by the court, on the argument, at variance with the propositions advanced by counsel, or the opinion of the whole court, where that is different from the opinion...
L. Cas. Sedgwick’s Leading Cases on Damages ;—Sedgwick’s Leading Cases on Real Property.
449, note 1—Lord of a manor. The grantee or owner of a manor.— Lord ordinary is the judge of the court of session in Scotland, who officiates for the time being as the judge of first instance. Darl. Pr. Ct. Sess.—Lord paramount. A term applied ...
417; 6 Car. & P. 560.—Lis pendens. A suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding land, which amounts to legal notice to all the world that there is a dispute as to the title. In equity the filing of the bill and serving a subpena creates ...
ANTI MANIFESTO. A term used in internatienal law to denote a proclamation or manifesto published by one of two belligerent powers, alleging reasons why the war is defensive on its part.
chase-money mortgage. <A mortgage given, concurrently with a conveyance of land, by the vendee to the vendor, on the same land, to secure the unpaid balance of the purchase price. See Baker v.
arts. 873, 875. The term is also used in Anglo-American law in substantially the same sense, that is, the person to whom the law would give the decedent’s property, real and personal, if he should die intestate. Kaiser v. Kaiser, 3 How. Prac, N. S....
See that title.—Expository statute. See that title.—Genvrat statute. A statute relating to the whole community, or concerning all persons generally, as distinguished from a pret or special statute. 1 Bl. Comm. 85, 86; 4 Coke, 75c.—Local stat~ u...
182.—Time of prescription. The length of time necessary to establish a right claimed by prescription or a title by prescription. Before the act of 2 & 38 Wm. IV. c. 71, the possession required to constitute a prescription must have existed “time ...
332; Bar clay v. Cameron, 25 Tex. 241.—Intestate succession. The succession of an heir at law to the property and estate of his ancestor when the latter has died intestate, or leaving a will which has been annulled or set aside. Civ.
v. Hilton, 69 Cal. 479, 11 Pac. 3: Montgomery Beer Bottling Works v. Gaston, 126 Ala. 425, 28 South, 497, 51
80; Rowland v. Estes 190 Pa. 111, 42 Atl. 528; National Bank of
This is the strict technical expression ased to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal here ditament.” The word “seised” is used te express the “seisin” or owner’s possession of a freehold proper...
the subject is incorporeal, or the estate expectant on a precedent freehold, the words ‘in his demesne” are omitted. (Co. Litt. lia; Fleta, l. 5, c. 5, § 18; Bract. 1. 4, tr. 5, c. 2, § 2.) Brown.
JUSTICE. The judges of the court of session in Scotland are called “Senators of the College of Justice.”
Lat. Otherwise; to the contrary. This word is used in the books to indicate the converse of a foregoing proposition, or the rule applicable to a different state of facts, or an exception to a rule be fore stated.
thers, to the exclusion of the rest. In fe Lowe, 11 Nat. Bankr. Rep. 221, Fed. Cas. No. 8,564. ‘The separate estate of a married woman is that which belongs to her, and over which her ‘husband has no right in equity. It may consist of lands or ch...
Louisiana probate law. The creditors of the succession may demand, in every case and against every creditor of the heir, a separation of the property of the succession from that of the heir. This is what is called the “separation of patrimony.’ T...
185; Cro. Eliz. 476, 665; 6 Coke, 67; Poph. 53; Co. Litt. 30.
chattels of one deceased, whose estate no one will meddle with. Cowell. Or, in other words, the taking possession of the property of a deceased person, where there is no one to claim it.
Fr. These are, in French law, the easements of English law. ‘Brown.
joyed by the dominant tenement. See Rowe v. Nally, 81 Md. 367, 32 Atl. 198.
Servitus est constitutio jure gentium qua quis domino alieno contra naturam subjicitur. Slavery is an institution by the law of nations, by which a man is subjected to the dominion of another, contrary to nature. Inst. 1, 3, 2; ‘Co. Litt. 116. a: ...
a demand against the plaintiff to counterbalance his in whole or in part. Code Ga. 1882, § 2899. agreeing with his minutes: and his recollection. ee Railroad Co. y. Cone, 37 Kan. 567, 15 Pac. 499; In re Prout’s Estate (Sur.) 11 N. Y.
v.. Boston, 127 Mass. 879; Lefevre v. Detroit, 2 Mich. 589; Washington Heights M. E. Church v. New York, 20 fun (N. Y.) 2¥7.—Inner house, outer house. See those titles. Mansion house. See MANSIUN.~ Public house. An inn or tavern; a house for the e...