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Master [fr. meester, Dut.; maistre, Fr.; magister, Lat.], a director; a governor; a teacher; one who has servants; the head...

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the...

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The...

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Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of...

New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors...

Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate...

County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a...

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in...

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is...

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George,...

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