Perfect good faith; abundant good faith. 2. This phrase is used to express that a contract must be made in perfect good faith, concealing nothing; as...
The name of a law or ordinance emanating from the czar of Russia. ...
com. law. When a cask is gauged, what it wants of being full is called ullage. ...
The last proposition made in making a contract, a treaty, and the like; as, the government of the United States has given its ultimatum, has made the ...
The last or extreme punishment; the penalty of death. ...
The last or remote heir; the lord. So called in contra-dis-tinction to the haeredes proximus, (q. v.) and the haeredes remotiores. (q. v.) Dalr Feud. ...
The decision of an umpire. This word is used for the judgment of an umpire, as the word award is employed to designate that of arbitrators. ...
A person selected by two or more arbitrators. When they are authorize to do so by the submission of the parties, and they cannot agree as to the subje...
With one voice unanimously. ...
The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. 2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some thing...
The agreement of all the persons concerned in a thing in design and opinion. 2. Generally a simple majority (q. v.) of any number of persons is suffi...
That which is unknown or vague. Vide Certainty. ...
That which is without condition; that which must be performed without regard to what has happened or may happen. ...
contracts. One which does not depend upon any condition whatever. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 730. ...
contracts. A contract which no man in his senses, not under delusion, would make, on the one hand, and which no fair and honest man would accept, on t...
That which is contrary to the constitution. 2. When an act of the legislature is repugnant or contrary to the constitution, it is, ipso facto, void. ...
pleading. This barbarous phrase of old French, which is the same with encore pret, yet ready, is used in a plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond ...
Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned to the widow during the time prescribed by law, she could, at common law, sue out a writ of ...
contracts. An alienation by a tenant of a part of his lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which is a transfer of a...
A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and the deputy the under-sheriff. Vide 1 Phil . Ev. Index, h. t. ...
One who holds by virtue of an underlease. (q. v.) See Subtenant. ...
contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise. 5 Ea...
Assumed; promised. 2. This is a technical word which ought to be inserted in every declaration of assumpsit, charging that the defendant undertook to...
law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, whom it shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship...
insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer. 2. By this act he places himself as to his responsibility, in the pl...
That which is held by the same title by two or more persons, whether their rights are equal, as to value or quantity, or unequal. 2. Tenants in commo...
practice. The ancient language of a special award of venire, where of several defendants, one pleads, and one lets judgment go by default, whereby the...
civil law. When the party to whom an engagement is made, makes no express agreement on his part, the contract is called uni-lateral, even in cases whe...
That which cannot be understood. 2. When a law, a contract, or will, is unintelligible, it has no effect whatever. Vide Construction, and the authori...
A species of adoption used among the Germans; it signifies union of descent. It takes place when a widower, having children, marries a widow, who also...
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union. ...
The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, India...
estates. An agreement or coincidence of certain qualities in the title of a joint estate or an estate in common. 2. In a joint estate there must exis...
This term is used to designate the possession by one person of several estates or rights. For example, a right to an estate to which an easement is at...
A term used among civilians. An universal legacy is a testamentary disposition, by which the testator gives to one or several persons the whole of the...
The name of a specie~s of partnership by which all the partners agree to put in common all their property, universorum bonorum, not only what they the...
The name given to certain societies or corporations which are seminaries of learning where youth are sent to finish their education. Among the civilia...
That which is done against the perfect rights of another; that which is against the established law; that which is opposed to a law which is the test ...
When goods have been stolen from some person unknown, they may be so described in the indictment; but if the owner be really known, an indictment alle...
That which is contrary to law. 2. There are two kinds of contracts which are unlawful; those which are void, and those which are not. When the law ex...
crim. law. A disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons who meet together with an intent mutually to assist each other in the execution ...
pleadings. This word is frequently used in indictments in the description of the offence; it is necessary when the crime did not exist at common law, ...
Such damages, as are unascertained. In general such damages cannot be set-off. No interest will be allowed on unliquidated damages. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1...
These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical madness, but a...
Vide Crib-biting; Roaring; Soundness. ...
Food not fit to be eaten; food which, if eaten, would be injurious. 2. Although the law does not in general consider a sale to be a warranty or goodn...
When a man accused of a crime is arraigned, he is required to raise his hand, probably in order to identify the person who pleads. Perhaps for the sam...
Relating to a city; but in a more general sense it signifies relating to houses. 2. It is used in this latter sense in the civil code of Louisiana, a...
Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning this term includes custom and prescription, though it differs from them in a narrower sense, ...
commercial law. The term usance comes from usage, and signifies the time which by usage or custom is allowed in certain countries, for the payment of ...
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