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Brock
411, Fed. Cas. No. 407. 389, 393, Fed. Cas. No. 11,384.—Domieile of succession. This term, as distinguished from a commercial, political, or forensic domicile, means the actual residence of a person within some jurisdiction, of such a character as...
Brok
14. The building or room used by an association of stock-brokers for meeting for the transaction of their common business.—Stockjobber. A dealer in stock; one who buys and sells stock on his own account on speculation.
Brown Ch
409; Ramaley v. Leland, 43 N.
Bruckman’s Estate, 195 Pa
363, 45 Atl. 1078; Atlanta v. Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Co., (C. C.) 101 Fed. 907. That kind of property which usually consists of things temporary and movable, but includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendible to the h...
BUCKET SHOP
father by different mothers or by the same mother to different fathers.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOOIA
TION. An organization created for the purpose of accumulating a fund by the monthly subscriptions and savings of its members to assist them in building or purchasing for themselves dwellings or real estate by the loan to them of the requisite money f...
Building Ass’n vy. Eklund, 190 Ill
257, 60 N. E. 521, 52 L. R. A. 637. See Par. ; In granting a lease, part of the rent is sometimes capitalized and paid in a lump sum at the time the lease is granted. This is called a “premiuin.” ; —Premium note. A promissory note given by the ...
BUM-BAILIFF
form a capital stock or fund out of which advances may be made to members desiring them, on mortgage security.
Bunting vy. Speek, 41 Kan
424, 21 Pac. 288, 3 L. R. A. 680. A servient estate, in the law of easements, is the estate upon which the easement is imposed or against which it is enjoyed;
C.) 111 Fed
918—Patent ambiguity, ee AMBIGUITY.—Patent defect. In sales of personal property, one which is plainly visible or which can be discovered by such an inspection as bbe be made in the exercise of ordiee cy aud rudence. See Lawson v. Baer, ‘atent ...
C.) 60 Fed
918.—Miarine carrier. By statutes of several states this term is Spe to carriers plying upon the ocean, arms of the sea, the Great Lakes, and other navigable waters within the jurisdiction of the United States. 819; Arthur v. Oakes, 63 Fed. 327, 1...
C.) 90 Fed
720.—Pre-emption entry. Ap entry of public lands for purchase under the pre-emption laws, giving the entryman a preferred right to acquire the land by virtue of his occupation and improvement of it. Hartman v. Warren, 76 Fed. 161, 22 C. C. A. 30:
C.) 98 Fed
497; Vandewater v. The Yankee
C.).2 Fed
204.—Imchoate dower. A wife's -Pingit in the lands of her husband during his
Callis, Sew
(80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another in a certain direction, whether for purposes of drainage, irrigation, or otherwise. Warren v. Henly, 31 Iowa, 31; Willis v. State, 27 ...
Camp
74. 74. See DEcocrIon. - 154; Brown.—Sheriff’s sale. A sale of property, conducted by a sheriff, or sheriff's deputy, in virtue of his authority as an officer holding process.—Tax-sale. <A sale of land for unpaid taxes; a sale of property, by...
CAMPFIGHT
CAMBIUM. In the civil law. Change or exchange. A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money, or debts.
CANTERBURY, ARCHBISHOP OF
In English ecclesiastical law. The primate of all England; the chief ecclesiastical dignitary in the church. His customary privilege is to crown the kings and queens of England; while the Archbishop of York has the privilege to crown the queen consor...
CAPITALIS
government; the place where the legislative department holds its sessions, and where the chief offices of the executive are located. persons, places, judicial proceedings, and some kinds of property. —Oapitalis baro. In old English law. Chief baro...
CAPITE
Lat. By the head. Tenure in captte was an ancient feudal tenure, whereby a man held lands of the king immediately. It was of two sorts,—the one, .principal and general, or of the king as the source of all tenure; the other, special and subaltern, o...
Car. V.; Montesg. Esprit des Lois, bk
30; Guizot, Hist. Civilization —~—Feudal tenures. The tenures of real estate under the feudal system, such as knight-service, socage, villenage, ete.
Carmichael (D. C.) 96 Fed
594.—Contemplation of death. The eporchension or expectation of Seprosching dissolution; not that general expectation which every mortal entertains, but the apprehension which arises from some presently existing sickness or physical condition or fr...
Carr, 60 N. J. Eq
300, 47 Atl. 34. As distéguished from a gift in trust, it is one where not only the legal title but the beneficial ownership as well is vested in the donee. Watkins y. Bigelow, 98 Minn. 210, 100 N. W. 1104.— Gift enterprise. A scheme for the divis...
CARTEL
v. State, 13 Neb. 308, 14 N. W. 408.—Carry arms or weapons. To wear, bear, or carry them upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose of use, or for the purpose of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in cas...
Cas. No
188; United States v. Sixteen Packages, 2 Mason, 48, Fed. Cas. No. 16.303; Pies : ray Mass.) 226.—Actual sale. Lands are “actually sold” at a tax sale, so as to entitle the treasurer to the statutory fees. when the sale is completed; when he ha...
CASE
1. A general term for an action, Cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnisher occasion for the exercise of the jurisdiction of a court of justice. Smith v. Wat...
CASE LAW
clent forms of action will not lie. Steph. PL 15. An abbreviated form of the title “trespass on the case,” g. v. Munal v. Brown (C.
Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 386, 17 Am. Dec
311; Supreme Lodge v. Lapp, 74 S. W. 656, 25 Ky. 311: See INSANITY. ~-Inguisition (or inquest) of lunacy. A quasi-judicial examination into the sanity or in- Sanity of a given person, ordered by a court having jurisdiction, on a proper application a...
Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 388, 17 Am. Dec
311; Merritt v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 70, 45 S. W. 21; In re Gannon’s Will, 2 Misc. Rep. 329, 21 N. Y. Supp. 960.—Paranoia. Monomania in general, or the obsession of a delusion or system of delusions which dominate without destroying the mental c...