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Coparceners or parceners

dissolved in any of the following modes:-- (1) By deed of partition, as (a) Where coparceners agreed to divide the estate in to equal parts in severalty, each to have a determinate portion. (b) Where they appointed

Institutions

the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles. The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed

Insurance

companies, there are associations formed by ship-owners, who agree, each entering his ships for a certain amount, to divide the losses sustained by any of them. These are institutions of long standing, but since the alteration of

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Novell'

which 159 belong to Justinian, and the rest to Justin the Second and to Tiberius; they are generally divided into chapters. There is a Latin epitome of these Novell'. The epitome was probably made in the time

Partition, Deed of

community by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in gavelkind, and they were desirous of dividing it into distinct portions, to be exclusively enjoyed by each, and were not under legal disability, they could

Party-wall

may mean (1) a wall of which the two adjoining owners are tenants in common: (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighbouring owners: (3) a wall which belongs entirely

Segment

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided a part divided or cut off a section a portion as a segment of an orange a segment

Pandect', or Digesta

that had a permanent application, Savigny, as quoted in Smith's Dict. of Antiq., voce 'Pandect'.' The Pandects are divided into fifty Books, each book containing several Titles, divided into Laws, and the Laws generally into several Parts

Infest

English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal,

Instruments of partition

Instruments of partition, means any instrument whereby co-owners of any property divide or agree to divide such property in severalty, and includes also a final order for effecting a partition

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