pleading, rights. The right of action which the plaintiff has; the declaration must show the plaintiff~s title, and if such title be not shown in that...
Those deeds which are evidences of the title of the owner of an estate. 2. The person who is entitled to the inheritance has a right to the possession...
pleading. At the top of every declaration the name of the court is usually stated, with the term of which the declaration is filed, and in the margin ...
That is to say; namely; scilicet; (q. v.) videlicet. (q. v.) ...
A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage. ...
Rom. civ, law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenev...
contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are true or false. Whe...
commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain v...
In some. countries, where religion is established by 1aw, cer-tain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to ...
contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, o...
estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry. ...
In a general sense, tolls signify any manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of money demanded for exporting or importing of any w...
Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. See act of congress of Aug. 30, 1842, c. 270, s. 20. ...
mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story~s L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonn...
French law. The name of a partnership composed of creditors or, re-cipients of perpetual or life-rents or annuities, formed on the condition that the ...
pleadings. In an indictment for simple larceny, the words "feloniously took and carried away" the goods stolen, are indispensable. Bac. Abr. Indictmen...
The Massachusetts act of assembly of 1805, c. 100, which provided that "the tools of any debtor necessary for his trade and occupation, should be exem...
An injury; a wrong; (q. v.) hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong. Co. Lit. 158. 2. Torts may be committed with force, as tre...
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort. ...
punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates. 2....
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute an...
A technical expression, importing an utter loss of the property for the voyage, and no more. 1 T. R. 187. Vide Loss, and 2 Phil. Ev. 54, n.; 16 East, ...
The whole sum or quantity. 2. In making a tender, it is requisite that the totality of the sum due should be offered, together with the interest and c...
In so many words. ...
As often as the thing shall happen. ...
These words are frequently introduced in policies of insurance, giving the party insured the right to stop and stay at certain designated points in th...
Always, and still ready. This is the name of a plea of tender, as where a man is indebted to another, and he tenders the amount due, and after wards t...
French law. Tour d~echelle is a right which the owner of an estate has of placing ladders on his neighbor~s property to facilitate the reparation of a...
pleading. These old French words signify always ready. The name of a plea to an action where the defendant alleges that he has always been ready to pe...
contracts. That which is given for towing ships in rivers. Guidon de la Mer, ch. 16; Poth. Des Avaries, n. 147; 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16. ...
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or ...
In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the deal...
Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others. 2. It seems at one time to have been thought that no man acqu...
One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealin...
This term is used in the civil law to designate the delivery of a thing, by the mere consent of the parties; as, when Peter holds the property of Paul...
contracts, civil law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others. 2. In sales it is the delivery of possession...
Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like. ...
crimes. One guilty of treason. 2. The punishment of a traitor is death. ...
pleadings. This is a technical word, which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any...
contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust their differ...
A copy of an original writing or deed. 2. In Pennsylvania, the act of assembly of March 20th, 1810, s. 10, calls a copy of the proceedings before a j...
cont. The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter. 2. ...
He to whom a transfer is made. ...
Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representat...
One who makes a transfer. ...
The violation of a law. ...
mar. law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another. 2. When this is done from necessity, it does not affect the liability...
Eng. law. A warrant for the custom-house to let goods pass: a permit. (q. v.) See, for a form of a transire, Harg. L. Tr. 104. ...
That which lasts but a short time, as transitory facts that which may be laid in different places, as a transitory action. ...
pract., plead. Actions are transitory when the venue may lawfully be laid in any county, though the cause of action arose out of the jurisdiction of t...
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