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Coparceners or parceners

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act...

Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is,...

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Novell'

Novell', those constitutions of the Civil law which were made after the publication of the Theodosian code; but sometimes the Julian edition only is meant. Novell', or Novell' Constitutiones, from a part of the Corpus Juris....

Partition, Deed of

Partition, Deed of, a primary or original convey-ance. When an estate was held in community by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in gavelkind, and they were desirous of dividing it into distinct...

Party-wall

Party-wall, a term which has been used indifferent senses, 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...

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 of a compound or divided...

Pandect', or Digesta

Pandect', or Digesta. In the last month of the year AD 530, Justinian, by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered him to name a commission for the purpose of forming a code out of the writings...

Infest

Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any...

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 passed by any revenue-authority or any...

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