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Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Juri non est consonum quod aliquis accessorius in curia regis convincatur antequam aliquis de facto fuerit attinctus

Juri non est consonum quod aliquis accessorius in curia regis convincatur antequam aliquis de facto fuerit attinctus [Lat.], it is not consonant to justice that

Seal

Seal, wax or wafer with an impression. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 73, deeds executed after 1925 must be signed or marked (by illiterates or blind persons), as well as sealed. As...

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Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every...

Pawn or Pledge

Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged. A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a...

Res accessoria sequitur rem principalem

Res accessoria sequitur rem principalem, (The accessory follows the principal.)

Treating

Treating. The temporary (English) Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102), s. 4, amended by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended...

Ubi non est principalis non potest esse accessorius

Ubi non est principalis non potest esse accessorius (4 Rep. 43), where there is no principal, there cannot be an accessory.

Weighing or measuring instrument

Weighing or measuring instrument, means any object, instrument, apparatus or device, or any combination thereof, which is, or is intended to be, used, exclusively or additionally, for the purpose of making any weighment or measurement, and...

Fixtures

Fixtures. Things of an accessory character which are not something which is part of the original struc-ture, Boswell v. Crucible Steel Co., (1925) 1 KB 119, annexed to houses or lands, which become, immediately on annexation,...

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