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Revenue

Revenue, income, annual profit received from land or other funds; also money at the disposal of the Crown, i.e., the...

Receiver, is a person appointed for the collection or protection of property. He is appointed either by the court or...

Pretensed right: where one is in possession of land, and another, who is out of possession claims and sues for...

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Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor....

Master of the Rolls [magister rotulorum, Lat.], originally the chief of a body of officers called the Masters in Chancery,...

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal...

Maritime Courts. These were formerly the High Court of Admiralty and its Court of appeal, the Judicial Committee of the...

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

Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will...

Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in...

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