A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical Terms of the Canon and Civil Laws. Also, Containing a Full Collection of Latin Maxims, and Citations of Upwards of Forty Thousand Reported Cases in which Words and Phrases Have Been Judicially Defined Or Contrued, Volume 1Frederick D. Linn & Company, 1888 |
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... means " demand " ) . 1 Man . & Ry . 125 . action was valid unless in fraud of creditors . Merl . Répert . ACCEPTOR . - The party who accepts a bill of exchange , or who engages to pay it in the first instance . The acceptor is generally ...
... means " demand " ) . 1 Man . & Ry . 125 . action was valid unless in fraud of creditors . Merl . Répert . ACCEPTOR . - The party who accepts a bill of exchange , or who engages to pay it in the first instance . The acceptor is generally ...
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... means by verdict ) . 10 Mod . 215 . ACQUITTANCE , in the old books , is a receipt given in acknowledgment of the payment of money , ( Noy , Maxims , 95 ) especially an acquittance or receipt under seal . Co. Litt . 373 a ; 5 Rep . 43 a ...
... means by verdict ) . 10 Mod . 215 . ACQUITTANCE , in the old books , is a receipt given in acknowledgment of the payment of money , ( Noy , Maxims , 95 ) especially an acquittance or receipt under seal . Co. Litt . 373 a ; 5 Rep . 43 a ...
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... means of an ejectment , or in some other lawful manner , before his title becomes marketable . See CHAMPERTY . ADVERSE POSSESSION , ( defined ) . 43 Ala . 633 ; 57 Id . 304 ; 5 Day ( Conn . ) 181 ; 8 Conn . 439 ; 33 Ga . 539 ; 30 Md ...
... means of an ejectment , or in some other lawful manner , before his title becomes marketable . See CHAMPERTY . ADVERSE POSSESSION , ( defined ) . 43 Ala . 633 ; 57 Id . 304 ; 5 Day ( Conn . ) 181 ; 8 Conn . 439 ; 33 Ga . 539 ; 30 Md ...
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... ( means next of kin ) . 7 Mod . 140 . ALBA FIRMA . - White rent ; rent pay- able in silver , as distinguished from black rents , reditus nigri , which were payable in corn , work , or the like . men have also other powers , varying under ...
... ( means next of kin ) . 7 Mod . 140 . ALBA FIRMA . - White rent ; rent pay- able in silver , as distinguished from black rents , reditus nigri , which were payable in corn , work , or the like . men have also other powers , varying under ...
Halaman 52
... means of the altar ; contributions , tithes , & c . ALTER , ( a bank note ) . 10 Mass . 34-5 . ( wharves , in city charter ) . 54 Mo. 172 . ALTER AND GRADE , ( in railroad charter ) . 5 Dutch . ( N. J. ) 353 . ALTER , CHANGE OR DEFEAT ...
... means of the altar ; contributions , tithes , & c . ALTER , ( a bank note ) . 10 Mass . 34-5 . ( wharves , in city charter ) . 54 Mo. 172 . ALTER AND GRADE , ( in railroad charter ) . 5 Dutch . ( N. J. ) 353 . ALTER , CHANGE OR DEFEAT ...
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Halaman 335 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Halaman 242 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has any superintendence entrusted to him whilst in the exercise of such superintendence...
Halaman 465 - the rule of law is clear, that, where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter, a different state of things, as existing at the same time.
Halaman 278 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Halaman 247 - Association, to contribute to the assets of the Company in the event of its being wound up.
Halaman 357 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Halaman 281 - And in £ for money then and there paid by the Plaintiff for the use of the Defendant at his request...
Halaman 211 - But, next to positive proof, circumstantial evidence or the doctrine of presumptions must take place: for when the fact itself cannot be demonstratively evinced, that which comes nearest to the proof of the fact is the proof of such circumstances which either necessarily, or usually, attend such facts; and these are called presumptions, which are only to be relied upon till the contrary be actually proved.
Halaman 276 - Exchequer that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law) four things are to be discerned and considered: (1) What was the common law before the making of the act ; (2) what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; (3) what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ; (4) the true reason of the remedy.
Halaman 220 - For every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbor's; and that either by a visible and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge, or by an ideal, invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field.