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Home Dictionary Name: losRe. Fa. Lo
Re. Fa. Lo., the abbreviation of recordari facias loquelam, which see....
divorce
divorce [Middle French, from Latin divortium, from divortere divertere to leave one's marriage partner, from di- away, apart + vertere to turn] : the dissolution of a valid marriage granted esp. on specified statutory grounds (as adultery) arising after the marriage compare annulment NOTE: The most common grounds for divorce are absence from the marital home, drug or alcohol addiction, adultery, cruelty, conviction of a crime, desertion, insanity, and nonsupport. absolute divorce : a divorce that completely and permanently dissolves the marital relationship and terminates marital rights (as property rights) and obligations (as fidelity) divorce a men·sa et tho·ro [-ā-men-sə-et-thȯr-ō, -Ä -men-sÄ -et-thō-rō] : a separation governed by a court order : legal separation divorce a vin·cu·lo mat·ri·mo·nii [-ā-vi-ky-lō-ma-trə-mō-nē-ī, -Ä -vi-kü-lō-mÄ -trē...
felonious
felonious : of, relating to, or constituting a felony [ sale of cocaine] fe·lo·ni·ous·ly adv ...
holograph
holograph [Late Latin holographus, from Late Greek holographos, from Greek holos whole, complete + graphein to write] : a document (as a will or a deed) entirely in the handwriting of the person whose act it purports to be ho·lo·graph·ic [hō-lə-gra-fik, hÄ -] adj ...
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Look see behold observe...
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Praise See Loos...
VerbarMero
Any of several large groupers of warm seas esp the guasa Epinephelus guaza the red grouper Epinephelus morio the black grouper Epinephelus nigritas distinguished as Mero de lo alto unr and a species called also rock hind distinguished as Mero cabrolla unr...
Recordari facias loquelam
Recordari facias loquelam [abbrev. re. fa. lo.], an original writ, in the nature of a certiorari, issuing out of Chancery, addressed to a sheriff to remove a cause depending in an inferior Court not of record to a superior court; and it is called a recordari, because it commands the sheriff to make a record of the plaint in the ancient County Court, and then to send up the cause. Obsolete, Fitz- N.B. 71....
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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