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Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth
Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth, The opening words of s. 191 'whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of...
Will, Estate at
Will, Estate at. This estate entitled the grantee or lessee to the possession of land during the pleasure of both the grantor and himself, yet it creates no sure or durable right, and is bounded by...
Habitual drunkard
Habitual drunkard. Defined by the (English) Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 19) (made perpetual by the Inebriates Act, 1888, and amended by the (English) Inebriates Acts, 1898 and 1899), which authorizes confinement...
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Inheritance
Inheritance, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing...
Trade
Trade [fr. trutta, Ital.], traffic; intercourse; commerce; exchange of goods for other goods, or for money. The business of buying and selling or bartering goods or services, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500. As to...
Executor de son tort.
Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para....
Award
Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good and marketable;...
Equitable estates and interests
Equitable estates and interests, Rights relating to property of which the legal ownership is vested in another person, or in the equitable owner himself in another capacity. The rights arise whenever a person obtains a title...
Falcade
The action of a horse when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times bending himself as it were in very quick curvets
Quitclaim
A release or relinquishment of a claim a deed of release an instrument by which some right title interest or claim which one person has or is supposed to have in or to an estate held...
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