An action of assumpsit will lie to recover money to which the plaintiff is entitled, and which in justice and equity, when no rule of policy or strict...
In actions of assumpsit a count is frequently introduced in the declaration charging that the defendant promised to pay the plaintiff for money lent. ...
When one advances money for tbe benefit of another with his consent, or at his express request, although he be not benefited by the transaction, the c...
attested by the officer, to each one of the adverse parties, or by leaving the same at his usual place of residence; but the service should be persona...
eccl. law. The process of an official, a bishop or other prelate having jurisdiction, issued to compel, by ecclesiastical censures, those who know of ...
A government by one person only....
A monarch who governs alone; an absolute governor....
A marriage contracted between one man and one woman, in exclusion of all the rest of mankind; it is used in opposition to bigamy and polygamy. (q. v.)...
A character or cipher composed of one or more letters interwoven, being an abbreviation of a name.2. A signature made by a monogram would perhaps be b...
med. jur. Insanity only upon a particular subject; and with a single delusion of the mind.2. The most simple form of this disorder is that in which th...
commercial law. This word has various significations. 1. It is the abuse of free commerce by which one or more individuals have procured the advantage...
physiology, persons. An animal which has a conformation contrary to the order of nature. Dunglison s Human Physiol. vol. 2, p. 422.2. A monster, altho...
Literally showing of right, in the English law, is a process by which a subject claim from the crown a restitution of a right. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, E...
Literally, showing of a deed; a profert. Bac. Ab. Pleas, &c. I 12, n. 1....
Eng. law. A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter, and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll, or ...
or Monts de PiÇtÇ. The name of institutions established by public authority for lending money upon pledge of goods. In those establishments a fund is ...
ute, has been construed to mean a calendar month. 2 Dall. R. 302; 4 Dall. Rep. 143; 4 Mass. R. 461; 4 Bibb. R. 105. In England, in the ecclesiastical ...
A thing intended to transmit to posterity the memory of some one; it is used, also, to signify a tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In this se...
Permanent landmarks established for the purpose of ascertaining boundaries.2. Monuments may be either natural or artificial objects, as rivers, known ...
mar. law. The act of arriving of a ship or vessel at a particular port, and there being anchored or otherwise fastened to the shore.2. Policies of ins...
English law. A term used in the inns of court, signifying the exercise of arguing imaginary cases, which young barristers and students used to perform...
In civil law. This term, in morÉ, is used to denote that a party to a contract, who is obliged to do anything, has neglected to perform it, and is in ...
estates. A moor, barren or unprofitable ground; marsh; a heath. 1 Inst. 5; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 71....
That evidence which is not obtained either from intuition or demonstration. It consists of those convictions of the mind, which are produced by the us...
med. jur. A term used by medical men, which has not yet acquired much reputation in the courts. Moral insanity is said to consist in a morbid perversi...
A duty which one owes, and which he ought to perform, but which he is not legally bound to fulfil.2. These obligations are of two kinds 1st. Those fou...
He demurs in law. He rests on the pleadings of the case, and abides the judgment of the court....
During the middle ages, there was an intermediate estate between matrimony and concubinage, known by this name. It is defined to be a lawful and insep...
An ancient and now almost obsolete remedy in the English law. An assize of mort d ancestor was a writ which was sued out where, after the decease of a...
the performance of the agreement within a reasonable time, to call for a re-conveyance of the land. Cruise, Dig. t. 15, c. 1, s. 11; 1 Pow. on Mortg. ...
estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.2. He is entitled to the payment of the money secured to him by the mortgage; he has the legal estat...
estates, contracts. He who makes a mortgage.2. He has rights, and is liable to certain duties as such. 1. He is quasi tenant, at will; he is entitled ...
Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain....
An unlawful alienation of lands, or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly m...
Eng. law. These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the...
A mortgage; a dead pledge...
A return made by the sheriff, when the defendant is dead, as an excuse for not executing the writ. 4 Watts, 270, 276....
domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child.2. It is generally the duty of a mother to support her child, when she is left a widow, until he bec...
In Latin socrus. The mother of one s wife, or of one s husband....
practice. An application to a court by one of the parties in a cause, or his counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order of court, which he thinks ...
The inducement, cause or reason why a thing is done.2. When there is such a mistake in the motive, that had the truth been known, the contract would p...
This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of so...
estates. Such subjects of property as attend a man s person wherever he goes, in contradistinction to things immovable. (q. v.)2. Things movable by th...
A person born of one white and one black parent. 7 Mass. R. 88; 2 Bailey, 558....
punishment. A fine imposed on the conviction of an offence....
commerce. An imposition laid on ships or goods by a company of trade, for the maintenance of consuls and the like. Obsolete....
A woman, a wife; sometimes it is used to designate a marriageable virgin, and in other cases the word mulier is employed in opposition to virgo. Poth....
dor in the like case, would not be allowed to file one bill for a specific performance against all the purchasers of the estate, for the same reason. ...
The meaning of this word is not very certain. By some it is said that to make a multitude there must be ten persons at least, while others contend tha...
Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of the mill, or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. ...
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