Intermixture - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A mass formed by mixture a mass of ingredients mixed...
Melungeon
One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives In North Carolina the Croatan Indians regarded as descended from Raleighs lost colony of Croatan formerly classed with negroes are now legally recognized as distinct...
Patio
A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted or where ore salt mercury etc are trampled by horses to effect intermixture and amalgamation...
Confusion, property by
Confusion, property by. Where goods of two persons are so intermixed that the several portions can no longer be distinguished; if the intermixture be by consent, it is supposed that the proprietors have an interest in common, in proportion to their respective shares; but if one wilfully intermix his money, corn, or hay, with that of another man, without his approbation or knowledge, or cast gold in like manner into another's melting-pot or crucible, our law allows no remedy in such a case, but gives the entire property without any account to him whose original dominion or property is invaded, and endeavoured to be rendered uncertain without his consent, 2 Bl. Com. 405. See also Vin. Abr. Justification (B) and Instit. of Justin. 1. Ii. tit. 1, ss. 27-34.As to the position where a person pays money held by him in a fiduciary character into his own banking account, see Re Hallett'' Estate, (1879) 13 Ch D 696; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398.By the (English) Solicitors Act, 1933 (23 & 24...
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