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give gave giv·en giv·ing 1 a : to make a gift of [I the remainder of my estate to my wife] compare convey, sell b : to grant or bestow by formal action [the law s citizens the right to vote] 2 a : to transfer from one's authority or custody [the sheriff gave the prisoner to the warden] b : to execute and deliver [all officers must bond] c : to communicate or impart to another [failed to adequate notice] d : to offer or submit for the consideration of another [ testimony in court] 3 : to yield possession of by way of exchange [will top dollar for your used car] 4 a : to impose as punishment b : to award by formal verdict [judgment was given against the plaintiff] giv·er n ...
Churchesset
Churchesset [fr. churchset, ciricseat, Sax.], corn paid to the church. Fleta says it signifies a certain measure of wheat, which in times past every man, on St. Martin'' day, gave to holy church, as well in the times of the Britons of the English; yet many great persons after the coming of the Romans gave their contributions according to the ancient law of Moses, in the name of first fruits; as in the writ of King Canutus sent to the Pope is particularly contained, in which they call it chirchsed, Seld. Hist. Tithes, 216....
Fidei-commissum
Fidei-commissum, a testamentary disposition, by which a person who gives a thing to another imposes on him the obligation of transferring it to a third person. The obligation wass not created bywords of legal binding force (civilia verba), but by words of request (precative), such as 'fidei committo,' 'peto,' 'volo dari,' and the like, which were the operative words (verba utilia). If the object of the fidei-commissum was the h'reditas, the whole or a part, it was called fidei-commissaria h'reditas, which is equivalent to a universal fidei-commissum; if it was a single thing, or a sum of money, it was called fidei-commissum singul' rei. The obligation to transfer the former could only be imposed on the heirs; the obligation of transferring the latter might be imposed on a legatee. It appears that there were no legal means of enforcing the due discharge of the trust called fidei-commissum till the time of Augustus, who gave the consuls jurisdiction in the fidei-commissa. Fidei-commissa ...
Restitutio in integrum
Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or the transaction took place. The restitutio here spoken of is founded on the edict. If the contract or transaction is such as not to be valid, according to the jus civile this restitutio is not needed, and it only applies to cases of contracts and transactions, which are not in their nature or form invalid. In order to entitle a person to the restitutio, he must have sustained some injury capable of being estimated, in consequence of the contract or transaction, and not through any fault of his own, except in the case of one who is minor xxv. Annorum, who was protected by the restitutio against the consequences of his own carelessness.The following are the chief cases in which a restitutio might be decreed:-The case of vis et metus. When a man had acted under the influence of force or...
Ringing the changes
Ringing the changes, a trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test it by biting, and returning a shilling, said it was a bad one. The buyer gave him a second, which he treated like the first, and returned with the same words, and so with a third shilling. The shillings he returned being bad, this was an uttering of false money, 1 Russ. On Cr., 5th Edn. 231.fraud consisting in offender's using a large banknote to pay for a small purchase; waiting for shopkeeper to put change on counter and then, by a series of maneuvers involving change of mind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1327....
Settled land
Settled land. For the purposes of the (English) Settled Land Acts, 1882-1890, 'settled land' meant land, and any estate and interest therein, which was the subject of a settlement; and 'settlement' meant any instrument, or any number of instruments, under which any land, or any estate or interest in land, 'stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession' (Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 2) (see infra for the statutory definitions in the Settled Land Act, 1925, which has repealed the S.L. Acts, 1882-1890). Where the settlement consists of more instruments than one it is commonly called a 'compound settlement,' though this term is not defined in the Acts themselves; as to compound settlements, see Re Du Cane & Nettlefold, (1898) 2 Ch 96; Re Munday & Roper, (1899) 1Ch 275; Re Lord Wimborne & Browne (1904) 1 Ch 537; Wolstenholme & Cherry, Conveyancing, etc., Acts.Prior to 1856 settled estates could not be sold or leased except under the authority of some po...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
birth mother
birth mother : the woman who gave birth to a child esp. as distinguished from the child's adoptive mother ...
color
color : a legal claim to or appearance of a right or authority [threats that gave to an act of self-defense] usually used in the phrase under color of [a police officer held liable for violating the plaintiff's civil rights under of state law] [a second “search” under of warrant "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...
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