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286.

288; The G. R. Booth, 171 U. 8. 450, 19 Sup. Ct. 9, 48 L. Ed. 234; The Carlotta, 5 Fed. Cas. 76; Bazin v. Steamship Co., 2

511; Carnegie Steel Co. v. Cambria

829; Jones v. Com., 80 Va. 542; Heirn vy. Bridault, 37 Miss. 222; State v..Chavers, 50 N. C. 15; Johnson v. Norwich, 29 Conn. 407.

1317; Wiesner v. Zaum, 39 Wis. 206;

486; Certain Logs of Mahogany, 5 Fed.

374.

321.

418,

744; Bryan v. Spires, 3 Brewst. (Pa.) 583.—Quasi fee. An estate gained by wrong; for wrong is unlimited and uncontained within rules. Wharton.

946; Church vy. Meeker, 34 Conn. 424; Jones v. Janney, 8 Watts & S. (Pa.) 443, 42

859.

564; Qity Nat. Bank v. Williams, 122

(Pa.) 502. A distinction is also sometimes made in commercial usage, by which the term “vuaranty” is understood as a collateral warranty (often a conditional one) against some default or event in the future, while the term “warranty” is taken as meaning an absolute un-

50.—I}lusory appointment act. The statute 1 Wm. IV. c. 46. This statute enacts that no “Pernanest made after its passing, (July 16, 1830,) in exercise of a power to appoint property, real or permous among several objects, shall be invalid, or impeached in equnity, on the ground that an unsubstantial, illusory, or nominal share only was thereby appointed, or left unappointed, to devolve upon any one or more of the objects of such power; but that the appointment shall be valid in equity, as at law. See, too, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 37. Wharton.

1275: Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Eqgualizatiun Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 58 N. W. 04,17 L. R. A. 199, 41 Am. St. Rep. 486.

877; The Atlantic (D. C.) 53 Fed. 600;

190.

551; State v. Gilman, 33 W. Va. 146, 10 S. E. 283, 6 L. R. A. 847.

52; Gibson v. People, 5 Hun (N. Y.) 543.

673; Henderson Nat. Bank v. Alves, 91

151. No one can have a servitude over his own property.

(Pa.) 57.

429.

419.—Privy verdict. One given atter the judge has left or adjourned the court, and the jury, being agreed, in order to be delivered from their confinement, obtain leave to give their verdict privily to the judge out of court. Such a verdict is of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a public verdict given openly in court. This practice is now superseded by that of renderrm oe sealed verdict. See Young v. Seymour, 4 Neb. 89.~—Publie verdict. <A _ verdict opens delivered by the jury in court. Withee v. Kowe, 45 Me. 571.—Quotient verdict. A money ver dict the amount of which is fixed by the following process: Each juror writes down the sum he wishes to award by the verdict, and these amounts are all added together, and the total is divided by twelve, (the number of jurors,) and the quotient stands as the verdict of the jury by eir agreement. See Hamilton v. Owego

8. 0. (Cape G. H.). Cases in the Supreme Court, Cape of Good Hope.

t.Ch. II. Cases tempore Charles IL., in vol. 3 of Reports in Chancery.

t. H. (or Hardwicke). Cases tempore Hardwicke, English King’s Bench (Ridgway, Lee, or Annaly);—West’s Chancery Reports, tempore Hardwicke.

t. Plunk. Cases tempore Plunkett, by Lloyd & Gould, Irish Chancery.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain. UK commentary and modern updates are original additions. This entry is for educational reference only and does not constitute legal advice.