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Commandery, a manor or chief messuage with lands and tenements thereto appertaining, which belonged to the priority of St. John of Jerusalem, in England; he who had the government of such a manor or house was styled the commander, who could not dispose of it but to the use of the priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according to his degree. The manors and lands belonging to the priory of St. John of Jerusalem were given to Henry the Eighth by 32 Hen. 8, c. 20, about the time of the dissolution of abbeys and monasteries; so that the name only of commanderies remains, the power being long since extinct....
Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the term was extended to all movables and not only to these but to whatsoever was not a fief or feud or, at a later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b.Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of fieri facias) (q.v.), means movable property or effects which belong personally to the owner and for which if they are injuriously withheld from him he has, in gene...
Adjunctio
Adjunctio, the act by which the owner of one thing attaches to or includes in his own property a thing belonging to another. If it cannot be separated again and thereby becomes an extincta res, the property in the whole generally belongs to the person who effected the change. If it can be separated, each owner retains his property, Civil Law....
security
security pl: -ties 1 a : something (as a mortgage or collateral) that is provided to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation [used his property as for a loan] b : surety see also security for costs 2 : evidence of indebtedness, ownership, or the right to ownership ;specif : evidence of investment in a common enterprise (as a corporation or partnership) made with the expectation of deriving a profit solely from the efforts of others who acquire control over the funds invested [a involves some form of investment contract] see also due diligence asset-backed security : a security (as a bond) that represents ownership in or is secured by a pool of assets (as loans or receivables) that have been securitized bearer security : a security (as a bearer bond) that is not registered and is payable to anyone in possession of it cer·tif·i·cat·ed security [sər-ti-fə-kā-təd-] : a security that belongs to or is divisible into a class or series o...
Accession
Accession [fr. accedo, Lat.], addition, arriving at, the commencement of a sovereign's reign; also the absolute or conditional acceptance by a nation of a treaty already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS.Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from accession is grounded on the right of occupancy, and derived from the Roman Law; thus if any given corporeal substance receive an accession, either by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner of the thing was entitled by his right of possession to the property of it under its improved state; but if the thing itself by such operation was changed into a different species, as by making wine, oil, or bread out of another's grapes, olives, or wheat (specificatio, Lat.), it...
Petrel
Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridaelig The small petrels or Mother Careys chickens belong to Oceanites Oceanodroma Procellaria and several allied genera...
Nonunionist
One who does not belong or refuses to belong to a trades union...
Louse
Any one of numerous species of small wingless suctorial parasitic insects belonging to a tribe Pediculina now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals as the head louse of man Pediculus capitis the body louse Pediculus vestimenti and the crab louse Phthirius pubis and many others See Crab louse Dog louse Cattle louse etc under Crab Dog etc...
Contract for sale of land
Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is implied that the vendor is to make a good title to the land for an estate in fee simple free from incumbrances, Hughes v. Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title, i.e., the abstract, falls on the vendor and so also the expenses of production of material documents in his possession or in that of his trustees an mortgagees. The expenses of production for verification of those which are not in such possession are to be borne by the purchaser, (English) L.P....
Commanding Officer
Commanding Officer, used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means the officer for the time being in command of the unit or detachment to which such person belongs or is attached. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xv)]when used in any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular army or to any department thereof, means the officer whose duty it is under the regulations of the regular Army, or in the absence of any such regulations, by the custom of the service, to discharge with respect to that portion of the regular Army or that department, as the case maybe, the functions of a commanding officer in regard to matters of the description referred to in that provision. [Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 3 (v)]'Commanding officer', used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means an officer for the time being in command of a unit or any separate portion of the Force to which such person belongs or is attached. [Indo-Tibetan Border Polic...
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