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Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The...

Goods, Computer programs are the product of an intellectual process, but once implanted in a medium they are widely distributed...

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum signifying with together in conjunction very etc It is used in the form...

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Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in...

Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M....

Equity of redemption. Before 1926 the equitable estate or interest left in a person after he had mortgaged his property....

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor....

Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of...

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose...

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