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Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the...

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English)...

Lease [either from locatio, Lat., the letting of property, or laisser, Fr., to let, or leapum, or leasum, Sax., to...

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Law and order and public order, the acts which affect 'law and order' are not different from the acts which...

Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of...

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of...

Per capita (by the number of individuals), opposed to per stirpes (by the number of families); if a man die...

Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many...

Partnership, the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business with a view to profit--so defined by s. 1,...

Resumption. 1. The taking again by the Crown of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion had been...

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