A bequest of a particular thing. 2. It follows that a specific legacy may be of animals or inanimate things, provided they are specified and separate...
remedies. The actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfil it. 2. Many contracts are entered into by parties to fulfil certain th...
civil law. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a person~s making a new species or subject from materials belonging to another. Bouv. Inst....
practice, contracts. A particular and detailed account of a thing: example, in order to obtain a patent for an invention, it is necessary to file a sp...
A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known. 2. The act of congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires the inventor or discoverer...
contracts. The hope or desire of making a profit by the purchase and resale of a thing. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 12. The profit so made; as, be made a good s...
A formal discourse in public. 2. The liberty of speech is guarantied to members of the legislature, to counsel in court in debate. 3. The reduction ...
The art of putting the proper letters in words. 2. It is a rule that when it appears with certainty what is meant, bad spelling will not avoid a cont...
By the Rev. Stat. of Vermont, tit. 16, c. 65, s. 9, spendthrift is defined to be a person who by excessive drinking) gaming, idleness or debauchery of...
That of which there is hope. 2. In the accounts of an executor and the inventory of the personal assets, he should distinguish between those assets w...
The hope of recovery. This term is applied to cases of capture of an enemy~s property as a booty or prize. As between the belligerent parties, the tit...
An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was married. Lovel. on Wills, 269. ...
The bringing an action for only a part of the cause of action. This is not permitted either at law nor in equity. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4167. ...
Eng. eccl. law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. F. N. B. 85. 2....
torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. Thi...
A promise lawfully made between persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will marry. See Espousals; Ersk. Inst. B. 1, t. ...
international law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers, as generals or admirals, in time of war, either without author-ity, or b...
civil law. He who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested. The engagement which he enters into is only accessory to the princip...
A fountain. 2. The owner of the soil has the exclusive right to use a spring arising on his grounds. When another has an easement, or right to draw w...
estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding interest. Exampl...
One who goes into a place for the purpose of ascertaining the best way of doing an injury there. 2. The term is mostly applied to an enemy who comes ...
One who settles on the lands of others without any legal author-ity; this term is applied particularly to persons who settle on the public land. 3 Mar...
estates. A pool. It is said to consist of land and water, and therefore by the name of stagnum, the water and the land may be passed. Co. Litt. 5. ...
contracts. A third person, chosen by two or more persons, to keep in deposit property, the right or possession of which is contested between them and ...
A stale demand is a claim which has been for a long time undemanded; as, for example, where there his been a delay of twelve years, unexplained. 3 Mas...
revenue. An impression made on paper, by order of the government, which must be used in reducing certain contracts to writing, for The purpose of rais...
This phrase is frequently used in relation to conveyances under the statute of uses. A covenant to stand seised to uses is a species of conveyance whi...
in war. An ensign or flag used in war. ...
measure. A weight or measure of certain dimensions, to which all other weights and measures must correspond; as, a standard bushel. Also the quality o...
intern. law. The right of staple as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be, that they may not allow them to set their merchand...
Eng. law. A court which formerly had great jurisdiction and power, but which was abolished by stat. 16, C. I., c. 10, on account of its usurpations an...
To abide or adhere to decided cases. 2. It is a general maxim that when a point has been settled by decision, it forms a precedent which is not after...
The act of appearing before a tribunal, either as plain-tiff or defendant. Vide Ester en jugement. ...
government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one com...
pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, passed March 21, 18...
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the...
civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 49, 12, 1, 13; id. 50, 15, 59. ...
chancery practice. That part of a bill which contains a narrative of the facts and circumstances of the plaintiff~s case, and the wrong or grievance o...
in Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who have acquired the right of being free at a time to come, or on a condition which is not fulfilled, or in a certai...
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his prope...
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature. 2. This wor...
English law. A security entered before the mayor of London, or some chief warden of a city, in pursuance of 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3, c. 1, whereby the lands...
English law. The statute of the staple, 27 Ed. HI. stat. 2, confined the sale of all commodities to be exported to certain towns in England, called es...
Rom. civ. law. From Constantine to Justinian, advocates, were arranged in two classes: viz. those called Statuti, and the supernumeraries. (q. v.) The...
practice. A term during which no execution can issue on a judgment. 2. It is either conventional, when the parties agree that no execution shall issu...
The suspension of an action. 2. Proceedings are stayed absolutely or conditionally. 3. - 1. They are peremptorily stayed when the plaintiff is wholl...
This term imports, ex vi termini, nearly the same as larceny; but in common parlance, it does not always import a felony; as, for example, you stole a...
civil law. A name given generally, to all species of frauds committed in making contracts. 2. This word is said to be derived from the Latin stellio,...
In Latin privigna, is the daughter of one~s wife, or of one~s hushand. ...
In Latin vitricus, is the hushand of one~s mother who is not the father of the person spoken of. ...
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