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Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
Escheat
Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family.Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to 'bona vacantia' now includes real property under (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 46. See BONA VACAN-TIA.The title of the Crown was ascertained by inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to hold such inquiries.If differed from a forfeiture [now abolished for treason or felony by the (Engli...
Jaundice
A morbid condition characterized by yellowness of the eyes skin and urine whiteness of the faeligces constipation uneasiness in the region of the stomach loss of appetite and general languor and lassitude It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up in the liver of the bile which is then absorbed into the blood...
contempt
contempt 1 : willful disobedience or open disrespect of the orders, authority, or dignity of a court or judge acting in a judicial capacity by disruptive language or conduct or by failure to obey the court's orders ;also : the offense of contempt called also contempt of court civil contempt : contempt that consists of disobedience to a court order in favor of the opposing party NOTE: The sanctions for civil contempt end upon compliance with the order. constructive contempt : indirect contempt in this entry criminal contempt : contempt consisting of conduct that disrupts or opposes the proceedings or power of the court NOTE: The sanctions for criminal contempt are designed to punish as well as to coerce compliance. direct contempt : contempt committed in the presence of the court or in a location close enough to disrupt the court's proceedings in·di·rect contempt : contempt (as disobedience of a court order) that occurs outside of the presence of the court 2 : wi...
Disturbance
Disturbance, annoyance; also the wrongful obstruction of the owner of an incorporeal hereditament in its exercise or enjoyment. There are five sorts of this injury, viz., disturbance of (1) franchise, (2) common, (3) ways, (4) tenure, and (5) patronage, 3 Steph. Com. As to compensation for disturbance under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), see s. 12, ibid....
Backwater
Water turned back in its course by an obstruction an opposing current or the flow of the tide as in a sewer or river channel or across a river bar...
Bar
A piece of wood metal or other material long in proportion to its breadth or thickness used as a lever and for various other purposes but especially for a hindrance obstruction or fastening as the bars of a fence or gate the bar of a door...
Barrage
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or watercourse to increase the depth of water as the barrages of the Nile...
Barrier
A carpentry obstruction stockade or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy...
Colic
A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen due to spasm obstruction or distention of some one of the hollow viscera...
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