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Reserving points of law

Reserving points of law. It was long the practice for a judge at the assizes to reserve points of law...

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose...

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Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered....

Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons...

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly...

Apportionment, a division of a whole into parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It...

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the...

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by...

Shire [fr. scyran, Sax., to divide], a part or portion of the kingdom; called also a county [comitatus, Lat.]. King...

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