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Perfectionate

To perfect

Bill of sight

Bill of sight, When a merchant is ignorant of the real quantities or qualities of any goods assigned to him, so that he is unable to make a perfect entry of them, he must acquaint the...

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

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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

Perfectionist

One pretending to perfection esp one pretending to moral perfection one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life

Registration of title of land

Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61...

Mortgage

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor. A mortgage is the creation of an interest in property, defeasible (i.e., annullable) upon performing the...

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....

Possession is nine points of the law

Possession is nine points of the law. This adage is not to be taken to be true to the full extent, so as to mean that the person in possession can only be ousted by one...

Donationum alia perfecta, alia incepta et non perfecta; ut si donatio lecta fuerit et concessa, ac traditio nondum fuerit subsecuta

Donationum alia perfecta, alia incepta et non perfecta; ut si donatio lecta fuerit et concessa, ac traditio nondum fuerit subsecuta [Lat.], Some gifts are perfect, others incipient or not perfect; as where a gift is chosen...

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