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 Construed...F. D. Linn & Company, 1883 - Law |
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... ACTION TO RECOVER A CHATTEL , ( what is not ) . 23 Hun . ( N. Y. ) 356 , 361 . ACTION FOR THE RECOVERY OF REAL PROP- ERTY , ( in a statute ) . 25 Minn . 183 . ACTION , ANOTHER PENDING , ( plea of ) . ACTION . ACTION . ( 22 )
... ACTION TO RECOVER A CHATTEL , ( what is not ) . 23 Hun . ( N. Y. ) 356 , 361 . ACTION FOR THE RECOVERY OF REAL PROP- ERTY , ( in a statute ) . 25 Minn . 183 . ACTION , ANOTHER PENDING , ( plea of ) . ACTION . ACTION . ( 22 )
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... ( plea of ) . 5 Halst . ( N. J. ) 276 ; 1 Cow . ( N. Y. ) 116 . ACTIONS , ( Covenant to save harmless from ) . Shep . Touch . 389 ; 8 East 593 ; 6 Wend . ( N. Y. ) 404 . ( release of ) . 1 Carth . 120 ; Co. Lit. 291 , 292 ; 1 Cro . 14 ...
... ( plea of ) . 5 Halst . ( N. J. ) 276 ; 1 Cow . ( N. Y. ) 116 . ACTIONS , ( Covenant to save harmless from ) . Shep . Touch . 389 ; 8 East 593 ; 6 Wend . ( N. Y. ) 404 . ( release of ) . 1 Carth . 120 ; Co. Lit. 291 , 292 ; 1 Cro . 14 ...
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... plea in justice's 1. Administration is where the rights of one or more persons in relation to an estate , property or collection of assets are adjusted and protected . The term is ap- plied to the duties of executors , adminis- trators ...
... plea in justice's 1. Administration is where the rights of one or more persons in relation to an estate , property or collection of assets are adjusted and protected . The term is ap- plied to the duties of executors , adminis- trators ...
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... ( plea of ) . 2 Gall . ( U. S. ) 105 . ALIEN FRIEND . - The subject of a nation with which we are at peace . * In English law , an alien is a person who is alien . ( Id . 10. ) Aliens are also divisible not a British subject , as opposed ...
... ( plea of ) . 2 Gall . ( U. S. ) 105 . ALIEN FRIEND . - The subject of a nation with which we are at peace . * In English law , an alien is a person who is alien . ( Id . 10. ) Aliens are also divisible not a British subject , as opposed ...
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... ( plea of ) . 5 Halst . ( N. J. ) 328 . ALIMONY . - LATIN : alimonium , sustenance . A gross or periodical sum of money ordered , in a suit for dissolution of mar- riage or judicial separation , to be paid by the husband to the wife for ...
... ( plea of ) . 5 Halst . ( N. J. ) 328 . ALIMONY . - LATIN : alimonium , sustenance . A gross or periodical sum of money ordered , in a suit for dissolution of mar- riage or judicial separation , to be paid by the husband to the wife for ...
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action appointed bail bankruptcy Barb Barn Bench Reports bill bill of lading called chattels Chit chose in action civil law common law Conn Cont contract conveyance corporation Court of Chancery Court of Session covenant Cranch U. S. creditors criminal crown debt debtor deed defendant defined ecclesiastical England English law equity Exchequer execution executor fraud freehold grant Halst heirs Hill N. Y. House of Lords indictment Inst issue Johns judge judgment jurisdiction jury justice King's Bench land lease liable Litt lord Mass ment mortgage offence officer old English old English law Orig owner Paige N. Y. party payment person Phillim plaintiff plea pleading practice proceedings Roman law rule Scotch law Serg sheriff ship Stat statute Steph tenant term tion trust Vict Wend Wharton Wheel word writ
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 133 - WHEREAS frauds are frequently committed upon creditors by secret bills of sale of personal chattels, whereby persons are enabled to keep up the appearance of being in good circumstances and possessed of property, and the grantees or holders of such bills of sale have the power of taking possession of the property of such persons, to the exclusion of the rest of their creditors...
Page 437 - Fieri facias unto the Sheriff for to levy the Debt of the Lands and Goods; (2) or that the Sheriff shall deliver to him all the Chattels of the Debtor (saving only his Oxen and Beasts of his Plough) and the one half of his Land, until the Debt be levied upon a reasonable Price or Extent.
Page 452 - The distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished; and there shall be in this state, hereafter, but one form of action, for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress of private wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil action.
Page 247 - Association, to contribute to the assets of the Company in the event of its being wound up.
Page 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.