Ambulatory - Law Dictionary Search Results
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ambulatory [Latin ambulatorius, literally, movable, transferable, from ambulare to walk, move, be transferred] : capable of being altered [a will is until the testator's death] ...
Portico
A colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical styles of architecture usually a colonnade at the entrance of a building...
Pseudo peripteral
Falsely or imperfectly peripteral as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end...
Amblatoria est voluntas defuncti usque ad vit' supermum exitum
Amblatoria est voluntas defuncti usque ad vit' supermum exitum. Dig. 34, 4, 4.-(The will of a deceased person is ambulatory until the latest moment of life.)...
By way of specific charge
By way of specific charge, means a specific charge is one that without more fastens on ascertained and definite property or property capable of being ascertained and defined, a floating charge, on the other hand, is ambulatory and shifting in its nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property which it is intended to affect until some event occurs or some act is done which causes it to settle and fasten on the subject of the charge within its reach and grasp, Spectrum Plus Ltd. (in re:) (in Liquidation), (2004) LR 337 (CA): (2004) EWHC 9: (2004) EWCA Civ 670...
Donatio mortis causa
Donatio mortis causa, a gift of personal property in prospect of death; a death-bed disposition; an inchoate gift of personalty consummated by the giver's death.It is derived from the Civil Law; Justinian's Inst. Lib. 2, tit. 7, shows its nature. To render this kind of gift valid, it (1) must be made by the giver, when ill, in anticipation of his death; (2) must be intended to take effect only upon his death by his existing illness, for his recovery from that illness, or his subsequent personal revocation of the gift, as by resuming its possession, will defeat it; and (3) a traditio or delivery, either actual or symbolical, of the subject of the gift, or of the instrument which represents it, must be made to the donee, either for his own use, or upon trust for another person, or for a particular purpose. The gift of a cheque upon the donor's banker is not good as a donatio mortis causa, because it is a gift which can only be made effectual by obtaining payment of it in the donor's life...
Marshalsea, Court of the
Marshalsea, Court of the, originally held before the steward and marshal of the royal house of administer justice between the sovereign's domestic servants, that they might not be drawn into other courts, and their service become lost. It held pleas of all trespasses committed within the verge of the Court (twelve miles round the sovereign's residence), where only one of the parties was in the royal service (in which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of the contracting parties belonged to the royal household, and then the inquest was composed of men of the household only. But this Court being ambulatory, Charles I. erected a new Court of record, called the curia palatii, or Palace Court, to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the Court or his deputy, with jurisdiction to hold plea of all manner of personal actions whatsoever which should arise between any parties wit...
Voluntas testatoris est ambulatoria usque ad extremum vite exitum
Voluntas testatoris est ambulatoria usque ad extremum vite exitum (4 Rep. 61), the Will of a testator's ambulatory [changeable] until death....
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