Arbor Consanguinitatis - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: arbor consanguinitatisArbor consanguinitatis
Arbor consanguinitatis, a tree-shaped table, showing the genealogy of a family. See the Arbor civilis of the civilians and canonists, Hale's Com. Law, 335....
Expeditat' arbores
Expeditat' arbores, trees rooted up or cut down to the roots, Fleta, 1. 2, c. xli....
nonarboreal
not arboreal not living in trees of animals Opposite of arboreal...
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if an estate be granted to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue die without issue, then the surviving parent is also such a tenant; and also if an estate be entailed upon a man and his issue from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the entail be general, such a tenancy can never arise; for whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simpl...
bearcat
an arboreal civet of Asia Arctictis bintourong having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair...
colubrid
any member of a large family Colubridae of mostly harmless temperate to tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes...
Dendrite
A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees produced by a foreign mineral usually an oxide of manganese as in the moss agate also a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form e g gold or silver an arborization...
Flying lemur
either of two nocturnal lemurlike mammals inhabiting the East Indies Cynocephalus variegatus or the Phillipines Cynocephalus volans having broad folds of skin between the fore and hind limbs on both sides of the body allowing them to make long gliding leaps they have been classed in the separate order Dermoptera They are arboreal and have become rare...
Gibbon
Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia They are tailless and without cheek pouches and have very long arms adapted for climbing...
Gorilla
A large arboreal anthropoid ape of West Africa It is larger than a man and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles which give it enormous strength In some respects its anatomy more than that of any other ape except the chimpanzee resembles that of man...
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