practice, conveyancing. An abridgment of all the patents, deeds, indentures, agreements, records, and papers relating to certain real estate.2. In mak...
The act of depositing money in the hands of the proper officer of the court, for the purpose of satisfying a debt or duty, or of an interpleader.2. Wh...
contracts. The wages or commissions of a broker his occupation is also sometimes called brocage. This word is also spelled brokerage....
contracts. The trade or occupation of a broker, the commissions paid to a broker for his services....
commerce. Those who are engaged for others, in the negotiation of contracts, relative to property, with the custody of which they have no concern. Pal...
crim. law. Bawdy-houses, the common habitations of prostitutes, such places have always been deemed common nuisances in the United States, and the kee...
domest. relat. He who is born from the same father and mother with another, or from one of them only. 2. Brothers are of the whole blood, when they ar...
domestic relat. The brother of a wife, or the hushand of a sister. There is no relationship, in the former case, between the hushand and the brother-i...
med. jurisp. An injury done with violence to the person, without breaking the skin, it is nearly synonymous with contusion. (q . v.) 1. Ch. Pr. 38, vi...
Eng. law. The name given to the statute 6 Geo. I., c. 18, which was passed in 1719, and was intended " for restraining several extravagant and unwarra...
crim. law. The detestable crime of having commerce contrary to the order of nature, by mankind with mankind, or with brute beasts, or by womankind wit...
estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance, Connected toge...
contracts. Said to be merchandise which is neither counted) weighed, nor measured.2. A sale by bulk, is a sale of a quantity of goods,, such as they a...
eccles. law. A letter from the pope of Rome, written on parchment, to which is attached a leaden seal, impressed with the images of Saint Peter and Sa...
An official account of public transactions on matters of importance. In France, it is the registry of the laws....
In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses. 1 East, P. C. 188.2. In the acts of Congress, the term is also...
A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The ...
This phrase is employed to signify the duty of proving the facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause.2. The burden of proof a...
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed b...
The abuse of official influence in the affairs of government, corruption. This word has lately been adopted to signify that those persons who are empl...
English law. A species of tenure in socage, it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a r...
A magistrate of a borough, generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor do...
A borough, (q. v.) a castle or town....
One who commits a burglary. (q. v.)...
pleadings. This is a technical word, which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary, no other word will answer the same purpose, nor will an...
crim. law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night time, with. intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actually c...
In Germany this is, the title by which an officer who performs the duties of a mayor is, called....
The act of interring the dead.2. No burial is lawful unless made in conformity with the local regulations, an when a dead body has been found, it cann...
Vide Accident, Arson, Fire, accidental....
A place appropriated for depositing the dead, a cemetery. In Massachusetts, burying-grounds cannot, be appropriated to roads without the consent of th...
measure. The Winchester bushel, established by the 13 W. III. c. 5, A. D. 1701, was made the standard of grain, a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a h...
The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally...
A measure of capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons. See Measure....
This phrase is used to express the ends and boundaries of an estate. The word butt, being evidently derived from the, French bout, the end, and bounds...
contracts. A purchaser, (q. v.) a vendee....
The purchase of the rights of a person to a piece of land when the seller is disseised.2. When a deed is made by one who, though having a legal right ...
contracts. In sales of land it not unfrequently occurs that the property is said to contain a certain number of acres, by estimation, or so many acres...
Rules and ordinances made by a corporation for its own government. 2. The power to make by-laws is usually conferred by express terms of the charter c...
Eng. law. A declaration may be filed without a new process or writ, when the defendant is in court in another case, by the plaintiff in that case havi...
Engl. law. The full extended value of land let by lease, payable by tenant for life or Years. Wood s Inst. 192. ...
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