Indiscriminating - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: indiscriminating Page: 3bloodbath
Indiscriminate slaughter the killing of multiple persons...
prostitution
prostitution : the act or practice of engaging in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money ;also : the crime of engaging in such activity ...
prostitute
prostitute : a person who engages in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money compare panderer, pimp vt -tut·ed -tut·ing [Latin prostitutus, past participle of prostituere, from pro- before + statuere to cause to stand, place] : to offer as a prostitute ...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
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