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Equity of redemption

Equity of redemption. Before 1926 the equitable estate or interest left in a person after he had mortgaged his property....

Circumstantial evidence, presumptive proof when the fact itself is not proved by direct testimony, but is to be inferred from...

Church of Scotland. The authority and jurisdiction of the Pope were abolished in 1567, and since then, except for some...

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Quic quid plantatur (or fixature) solo, solo cedit, the maxim, which is found in English law, viz., 'quicquid plantatur solo,...

Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the...

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is...

Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or...

Manufacturing purposes, The expression 'manu-facturing purposes' in s. 106 is used in its popular and dictionary meaning, the Transfer of...

Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by...

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1)...

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