civil law. The name of a servitude by which an obligation is imposed on the owner of a house to allow windows or lights to be put in his wall by the o...
civil law. The name of a servitude which obliges the owner of an estate to receive, or his right to turn aside, the droppings or stream from his neigh...
civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in requiring him who owes it, to permit his neighbor to place his joists on his wall. It differs fro...
The time during which a legislative body, a court or other assembly sits for the transaction of business; as, a session of congress, which commences o...
The highest civil court in the kingdom of Scotland. The judges, called lords of the session, are fifteen in number. 2. It has extensive original juri...
contracts. Foreign bills of exchange are generally drawn in parts; as, "pay this my first bill of exchange, second and third of the same tenor and dat...
contracts, practice. Defalcation; (q. v.) a demand which a defen-dant makes against the plaintiff in the suit for the purpose of liquidating the whole...
domicil. The right which a person has of being considered as resident of a particular place. 2. It is obtained in various ways, to wit: 1. By birth. ...
contracts. The conveyance of an estate, for the benefit of some person or persons. 2. It is usually made on the prospect of marriage for the benefit ...
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for ...
title to an estate. An estate in severalty is one which is held by the tenant in his own right only, without any other being joined or connected with ...
pleading. When an action is brought in the name of several plain-tiffs, in which the plaintiffs must of necessity join, aud one or more of the persons...
estates. The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is...
Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in gen...
The physical difference between male and female in animals. 2. In the human species the male is called man, (q. v.) and the female, woman. (q. v.) So...
One entered for the mere purpose of delay; it must be of a matter which the pleader knows to be false; as judgment recovered, that is, that judgment h...
A portion of anything. Sometimes shares are equal, at other times they are unequal. 2. In companies and corporations the whole of the capital stock i...
A wether more than a year old. 4 Car. & Payne, 216; 19 Engl. Com. Law Rep. 331, S. C. ...
This case, reported in 1 Rep. 93, contains a rule usually known as the rule in Shelley~s case, which has caused more commentaries perhaps than any oth...
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said t...
The office of sheriff, the time during which a sheriff is to remain in office. ...
estates. One which takes effect in derogation of some other estate, and is either limited by the deed creating it, or authorized to be created by some...
Eng. law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one twen-tieth part of a pound. In the United States, while they were colonies, there were coin...
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship~s papers, the ship~s hushand, shipwr...
One who transacts business between the owners of vessels and merchants who send cargoes. ...
In the charter parties with the English East India Company, these words occur; their meaning is damage from negligence, insufficiency or bad stowage i...
mar. law. An agent appointed by the owner of a ship, and invested with authority to make the requisite repairs, and attend to the management, equipmen...
Those documents which are required on board of neutral ships, as evidence of their neutrality, These are the passports, sea-letter, muster-roll, chart...
One who ships or puts goods on board of a vessel, to be carried to another place during her voyage. In general, the shipper is bound to pay for the hi...
contr. mar. law. The act of congress of July 20, 1790, s. 1, directs that a master of any vessel bound from a port in the United States to any foreign...
The loss of a vessel at sea, either. by being swallowed up by the waves, by running against another vessel or thing at sea, or on the coast. Vide Nauf...
Eng. law. A district or division of country. Co. Lit. 50 a. ...
This name is given to a book in which a merchant, mechanic, or other person, makes original entries of goods sold or work done. 2. In general, such a...
Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river, is called the shore. Strictly speaking, however, when the water does not ebb and flow, in a river, th...
A term used among bankers, which takes, place when a note has been sent to a bank for collection, and an entry of it is made in the cus-tomer~s bank b...
If he make you secure. These words occur in the form of writs, which originally requited, or still require, that the plaintiff should give security to...
By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives it temporarily of the power to fulfil iis usual functions. 2. Sickness is either s...
Eng practice. Rules which were formerly moved for by attorneys on the side bar of the court; but now may be had of the clerk of the rules, upon a prae...
An obsolete word, formerly used for scion, which figuratively signified a person who descended from another. "The sien," says Lord Coke, "takes all hi...
A seal. (q. v.) Vide Scroll. SIGHT, contracts. Bills of exchange are frequently made payable at sight, that is, on presentment, which might be taken ...
contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words. 2. Contracts are express or implied. The express are manifested viva v...
measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. Vide Measure. ...
mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman. 2. Every man has a right to adopt su...
civil law. Those species of indicia (q. v.) which come more immediately under the cognizance of the senses, such as stains of blood on the person of o...
eccl. law. The name of a sort of rescript, without seal, containing the supplication, the signature of the pope or his delegate, and the grant of a pa...
pract. contr. By signature is understood the act of putting down a man~s name, at the end of an instrument, to attest its validity. The name thus writ...
French law. The notice given of a decree, sentence or other judicial act. ...
eccl. law. When this word is used alone, it means the bishop~s certificate to the court of chancery, in order to obtain the writ of excommunication; b...
The state of a person who does not speak, or of one who refrains from speaking. 2. Pure and simple silence cannot be considered as a consent to a con...
By these words in England is understood every sort of wood, except gross wood of the age of twenty years. Bac. Ab. Tythes, C. ...
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