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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... word of conveyance where the estate is to be created by deed . The limitation to the heirs must be made in direct terms , or by immediate reference , and no substituted words of perpetuity , except in special cases , will be allowed to ...
... word of conveyance where the estate is to be created by deed . The limitation to the heirs must be made in direct terms , or by immediate reference , and no substituted words of perpetuity , except in special cases , will be allowed to ...
Strona 18
... word has never existed , and that Cujacius the right of pasturage . Spelman . Fleta , is the author of it , who read the words lib . 4 , c . 19 , § 9. Liberum herbagium ; terris condi in Servius ad Virg . herciscundi . free herbage ...
... word has never existed , and that Cujacius the right of pasturage . Spelman . Fleta , is the author of it , who read the words lib . 4 , c . 19 , § 9. Liberum herbagium ; terris condi in Servius ad Virg . herciscundi . free herbage ...
Strona 24
... word made use of for the combatants in the duellum to leave off fighting . Kelham . HOASTMEN . In English law . An ... word is written agen hyne , pronounced awn hine . Frum night , uncuth ; twa night , gest ; thrid night , agin hine ...
... word made use of for the combatants in the duellum to leave off fighting . Kelham . HOASTMEN . In English law . An ... word is written agen hyne , pronounced awn hine . Frum night , uncuth ; twa night , gest ; thrid night , agin hine ...
Strona 32
... word forty in 2 Inst . 318 , is called a misprint . But Lord Coke merely copied from Brac- ton , or Fleta , both of whom very plainly use the word quadraginta . See Hora . HOUR OF CAUSE . In Scotch prac- tice . The hour when a court is ...
... word forty in 2 Inst . 318 , is called a misprint . But Lord Coke merely copied from Brac- ton , or Fleta , both of whom very plainly use the word quadraginta . See Hora . HOUR OF CAUSE . In Scotch prac- tice . The hour when a court is ...
Strona 39
... word , viz . an illiterate or ignorant person , one de- ficient in learning or understanding , and from this has been derived the intenser sense of the word idiot in modern law . An IDIOTA . Lat . [ from Gr . idiwrns , a pri vate ...
... word , viz . an illiterate or ignorant person , one de- ficient in learning or understanding , and from this has been derived the intenser sense of the word idiot in modern law . An IDIOTA . Lat . [ from Gr . idiwrns , a pri vate ...
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