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Possession is nine points of the law

antagonists. For instance, if the claimant be able to show a descent from the grantor of the estate, perfect except in one link of the chain, and the man in possession be a perfect stranger, the latter

Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum

Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum [Lat.], that is

Lien

38), the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20). The owner has a perfect right to dispose of the property, subject to the lien, and the person to whom he conveys it

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Perfectionment

The act of bringing to perfection or the state of having attained to perfection

Bullion

silver in the mass. Those metals are called so, either when smelted from the native ore, and not perfectly refined; or when they are perfectly refined, but melted down into bars or ingots, or into any unwrought

Predicate

Predicate, that which is said concerning the subject in a logical proposition, as, 'The law is the perfection of commonsense'; perfection of commonsense, being affirmed concerning the law (the subject) is the predicate or thing predicated.

Mortgage

again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so lost at the Common Law to the mortgagor. Until the mortgage

Magna Carta

Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision

Finisher

One who finishes puts an end to completes or perfects esp used in the trades as in hatting weaving etc for the workman who gives a finishing touch

Assessory

Assessory, means anything which is joined to another thing as an ornament, or to render it more perfect, or which accompanies it, or is connected with it as an incident, or as subordinate to it, or

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