eccles. law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity, but in its more limited sense, it is applied only to rectories and ...
In the early feudal times, grants were made to continue only during the pleasure of the grantor, which were called munera, (q. v.) but soon afterwards...
Of advantage, profit or interest, as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her. Vide Cestui que trust....
That right which a person has in a contract made with another, as if A makes a contract with B that he will pay C a certain sum of money, B has the le...
This term is frequently used as synonymous with the technical phrase cestui que trust. (q. v.)...
Eng. eccl. law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the kings gift, above...
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was requ...
This word is used in the same sense as gain (q. v.) and profits. (q. v.) 20 Toull. n. 199....
Civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for ...
English law. An exemption of the punishment of death which the laws impose on the commission of certain crimes, on the culprit demanding it. By modern...
civil law. The right which a surety has to cause the property of the principal debtor to be applied in satisfaction of the obligation in the first ins...
In the civil law, which, in this respect, has been adopted in Louisiana, although, when there are several sureties, each one is bound for the whole de...
civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the succession, only to the v...
duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. It is a moral duty only, and it cannot be enforeed by law...
English law. An aid given by the subjects to the king under a pretended gratuity, but in realty it was an extortion and imposition....
A gift by last will or testament, a legacy. (q. v.) This word is sometimes, though improperly used, as synonymous with devise. There is, however, a di...
domestic relations. The grea-grandfather, proavus. 1 Bl. Com. 186. Vide dile....
Means the best evideince of which the nature of the case admits, not the highest or strongest evidence which the nature of the thing to be proved admi...
A contract between a man and a woman, by which they agree that at a future, time they will marry together.2. The requisites of this contract are 1. Th...
In England this term has lately been adopted. In the case of Foster v. Blackston, the master of the rolls said, be could no where find in the authorit...
Improvements made to an estate. It signifies such improvements as have been made to the estate which render it better than mere repairs. See 2 Fairf. ...
This phrase is used in the acts of limitations of several of thestates, in imitation of the phraseology of the English statute of limitations. In Penn...
A particular influential power which sways the judgment, the inclination or propensity of the mind towards a particular object.2. Justice requires tha...
contracts. A bid is an offer to pay a specified price for an article about to be sold at auction. The bidder has a right to withdraw his bid at any ti...
contracts. One who makes an offer to pay a certain price for an article which is for sale.2. The term is applied more particularly to a person who off...
A French word, which signifies property. In law, it means property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Danes Ab. c. 133,...
Canon law, Latin. One guilty of bigamy....
crim. law, domestic relations. The wilful contracting of a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still subsisting, or it ...
A book in which bankers, merchants and traders write a statement of all they owe and all that is due to them. This term is used in the French law, and...
civil law. A contract in which both the contracting parties are bound to fulfil obligations reciprocally towards each other, Lec. Elem. 781, as a con...
English law. One who uses two tongues or languages. Formerly a jury, part Englishmen and part foreigners, to give a verdict between an Englishman and ...
legislation. An instrument drawn or presented by a member or committee to a legislative body for its approbation and enactment. After it has gone thro...
chancery practice. A complaint in writing addressed to the chancellor, containing the names of the parties to the suit, both complainant and defendant...
merc. law. An account containing the items of goods sold, or of work done by one person against another. It differs from an account stated (q. v.) in ...
com. law, contracts. A writing signed by a merchant, to testify that the goods shipped on board a certain vessel belong to another person who is to ta...
legislation, punishment. An act of the legislature by which one or more persons are declared to be attainted, and their property confiscated.2. The Co...
commerce, accounts. One in in which an account is kept of promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other bills payable or receivable: it ought to cont...
The name of a bill filed by an executor or administrator, who finds the affairs of the deceased so much involved that he cannot safely administer the ...
practice. A statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a suit or action. This is demandable as a matter of right before the pa...
It is provided by the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 10, that no state shall " emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silv...
contracts. When a merchant by his writing acknowledges himself in debt to another, in a certain sum to be paid on a certain day and subscribes it at a...
practice. The statement in writing, of the objection made by a party in a cause, to the decision of the court on a point of law, which, in confirmatio...
contracts. A bill of exchange is defined to be an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein ment...
A phrase used in French maritime law, it comprehends every instrument of writing which contains a contract of bottomry, respondentia, and every specie...
commercial law. A certificate, properly authenticated, that a certain ship or vessel therein named, comes from a place where no contagious distempers ...
A written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor, lawfully presented to a grand jury, convoked, to consider whether there is suf...
contracts. A bill or obligation, (which are the same thing, except that in English it iis commonly called bill, but in Latin obligatio, obligation,) i...
contracts and commercial law. A memorandum or acknowledgment in writing, signed by the captain or master of a ship or other vessel, that he has receiv...
Accounts of births and deaths which have occurred in a certain district, during a definite space of time....
An instrument in common use and too well known to be misunderstood. It is a bond without condition, sometimes called a single bill, and differs in not...
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