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Restitutio in integrum

Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the...

Sufferance, Tenancy at. This is the least and lowest estate which can subsist in realty. It is in strictness not...

Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till...

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth, The opening words...

Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable...

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal...

Cross-examination, the examination of a witness by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such...

Evacuee, The evacuee cannot take possession of his property. He cannot lease that property. He cannot sell that property without...

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

Alibi (elsewhere). It is a defence restored to where the party accused, in order to prove that he could not...