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Abjuration
Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5. Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration...
Anticipation
Anticipation, doing or taking a thing before the appointed time. For anticipation of an invention see PATENTS. A married woman may be restrained by the terms of a will or settlement from aliening, by way of...
Enticement
Enticement, means whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having...
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Barratry
Barratry, 1. Usually called 'common barratry,' the common moving of suits and quarrels in disturbance of the peace, either in courts or elsewhere. The punishment is fine and imprisonment; 'and if the offender belonged to the...
British possession
British possession, shall mean any part of Her Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of those dominions are under both a Central and a Local Legislature, all part under the Central Legislature...
Charter-party
Charter-party [fr. Charta partita, Lat., a divided charter; charte partie, Fr.]. When notaries were less common there was only one instrument made for both parties; this they cut in two, and give each his portion; an...
Civil list
Civil list, an annual sum granted by Parliament at the commencement of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision...
Constructive total loss
Constructive total loss, a term used in the law of marine insurance to denote a loss which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of his insurance, on giving to the assurers notice of abandonment....
Cui ante divortium
Cui ante divortium (to whom before divorce). A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in fee simple or in tail, or for life, from him...
Curtesy of England
Curtesy of England [jus curialitatis Angli', Lat.], an estate which by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's...
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