A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law, Together with Translations and Explanations of the Various Technical Phrases in Different Languages, Occuring in the Ancient and Modern Reports, and Standard Treatises; Embracing, Also, All the Principal Common and Civil Law Maxims. Comp. on the Basis of Spelman's Glossary, and Adapted to the Jurisprudence of the United States; with Copious Illustrations, Critical and Historical, Tom 2Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1860 |
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... deed , following immediately after the premises ; so called from the Latin word habendum , with which it commenced , and literally translated and retained in modern deeds , in the clause beginning with the words " To have and to hold ...
... deed , following immediately after the premises ; so called from the Latin word habendum , with which it commenced , and literally translated and retained in modern deeds , in the clause beginning with the words " To have and to hold ...
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... deed or act of his ancestor , without , or against right . Applied to an heir whose title originated in the wrongful act , such as the disseisin of his ancestor . Bract . fol . 172. An heir in fact , as distinguished from an heir de ...
... deed or act of his ancestor , without , or against right . Applied to an heir whose title originated in the wrongful act , such as the disseisin of his ancestor . Bract . fol . 172. An heir in fact , as distinguished from an heir de ...
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... deed , and a devisee , who takes by will . * See Chimney money , Fuage . He upon whom the law casts his ancestor's HEARTH SILVER . estate immediately on the death of the an- cestor . * 2 Bl . Čom . 201. He to whom lands , tenements or ...
... deed , and a devisee , who takes by will . * See Chimney money , Fuage . He upon whom the law casts his ancestor's HEARTH SILVER . estate immediately on the death of the an- cestor . * 2 Bl . Čom . 201. He to whom lands , tenements or ...
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... deed or instrument . Wharton's Lex . Heir substitute , in a bond . He to whom a bond is payable expressly in case of the creditor's decease , or after his death . 1 Forbes ' Inst . part 3 , p . 76 . Heir of line . One who succeeds ...
... deed or instrument . Wharton's Lex . Heir substitute , in a bond . He to whom a bond is payable expressly in case of the creditor's decease , or after his death . 1 Forbes ' Inst . part 3 , p . 76 . Heir of line . One who succeeds ...
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... deed , and not by the witnesses themselves , who very often could not write . 2 Reeves ' Hist . Eng . Law , 89 ... deeds of subjects was not entirely discontinued until the reign of Henry VIII . 2 Bl . Com . ub . sup . HIGHWAY . [ L. Lat ...
... deed , and not by the witnesses themselves , who very often could not write . 2 Reeves ' Hist . Eng . Law , 89 ... deeds of subjects was not entirely discontinued until the reign of Henry VIII . 2 Bl . Com . ub . sup . HIGHWAY . [ L. Lat ...
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