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Counter-deed

Counter-deed, a secret writing, either before a notary or under a privte seal, which destroys, invalidates, or alters a public one

Negatio destruit negationem, et ambo faciunt affirmativum

Negatio destruit negationem, et ambo faciunt affirmativum [Lat.], a negative destroys a negative, and both make an affirmative.

Copyhold

or by a grant of the freehold by the lord to the husband for then the copyhold is destroyed, or by a devise expressed to be in satisfaction of it. (10) Copyholds, by special custom, are subject

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Mutuum

other thing which is not intended to be returned, but only an equivalent in kind, is lost or destroyed by accident, it is the loss of the borrower; for it is his property, and he must restore

Rotulus wintoni'

Domesday; so called because kept at Winchester, among other records of the kingdom; but this roll time has destroyed, Ingulph. Hist. 516.

Nihilism

Nihilism, means a theory that the existing economic, social, or political institutions should be destroyed, regardless of the result, because of the basic undesirability of those institutions, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Revoke

pre-viously done, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Means the recall of some authority or thing granted or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void, Black's

Conditions

Conditions, Conditions are nothing but qualifica-tion, restriction or limitation modifying or even destroying to a certain extent the right to carry on the business. The commodities in which the association can

Wreck

satisfy a justice that he came by them lawfully (ibid., s. 66). The offence of unlawfully and maliciously destroying any part of a wreck, or any goods, etc., belonging to it, is a felony. [(English) Malicious Damage

Wills

manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the

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