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Home Dictionary Name: hereDeficiente uno sanguine non potest esse heres
Deficiente uno sanguine non potest esse heres [Lat.], One blood being wanting, he cannot be heir....
In restitutionem, non in paenam heres succedit
In restitutionem, non in paenam heres succedit [Lat.], the heir succeeds to the restitution, not to the penalty...
Omnes sorroes sunt quasi heres de una hereditate
Omnes sorroes sunt quasi heres de una hereditate [Lat.], all sisters are as it were one heir to one inheritance....
hereditament
hereditament [Medieval Latin hereditamentum, from Late Latin hereditare to inherit, from Latin hered- heres heir] : inheritable property ...
hereditary
hereditary [Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance, from hered- heres heir] 1 : received or passing by inheritance or required to pass by inheritance [ shares] 2 : having ownership or possession through inheritance [a chief] ...
Heriot
Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right of the lord of a manor to the best beast of the deceased tenant of a manor, which beast may be seized by the lord, although it has never been within the manor, Western v. Bailey, (1897) 1 QB 86; but if a customary freehold tenement is mortgaged, and the mort-gagor being in possession dies, the heriot is not due because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant, in order that the militi' apparatus might continue to be used for national defence by each succeeding tenant.A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to lord of the fee on tenant's death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732.The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (Engl...
Protest
Protest, a solemn declaration of opinion, generally of dissent. Each peer has a right, when he disapproves of the vote of the majority of the House of Lords, to enter his dissent on the Journals of the House, with his reasons for such dissent, which is usually styled his protest.Also a notification written by a notary upon a foreign bill of exchange of non-acceptance or non-payment; as to this, see Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 51, by which a foreign bill, dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, must be duly protested, otherwise the drawer and indorsers are discharged. All protests made in England must, by the (English) Stamp Act, 1891 (see schedule), be stamped, otherwise they cannot be given in evidence without payment of a penalty.The following is a form of protest for non-payment:-On the .......... day of .........., at the request of A.B., bearer of the original bill of exchange, whereof a true copy is on the other side written, I [notary's name], of [address], notary publ...
passim
passim [Latin, here and there] : in one place and another used in citations of cases, articles, or books to indicate that something (as a word, phrase, or idea) is found at many places in the work cited [see Arango, 621 F.2d 1371 passim] ...
Bestick
To stick over as with sharp points pressed in to mark by infixing points or spots here and there to pierce...
Carbon process
A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing the unexposed portions being dissolved away If the process stops here it is called single transfer if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print the method is called double transfer...