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Furlong

Furlong [fr. furlang, A.-S.; furlongus, ferlingus, ferlingum, Low Lat.], quasi 'a furrow long,' that is, bounded or terminated b the length of a furrow, i.e., quod uno progressu

Illicit intercourse

they belong or, where they belong to different communities, of both such communities, as constituting between them a quasi-marital relation. [Penal Code, 1860, s. 372, Excep II]

process ordered or forbade something to be done; they were chiefly employed in disputes as to possession, or quasi-possession, and were nearly equivalent to our writ of injunction. For a division of them, see Sand. Just. Also,

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Law Commission

Law Commission,'means an official or quasi-official body of people formed to purpose legal reforms intended to improve the administration of justice. Such a body

Outlawry

The maxim applicable to outlaws is, 'let them be answerable to all, and none to them.' Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus; caput gerit lupinum. 7 Co. 14, (An outlaw is, as it were, placed outside the

Negotiorum gestor

he acts wholly without authority, there can, strictly speaking, be no contract. But the Roman Law raised a quasi mandate, by implication, for the benefit of the owner in many of such cases. Nor is an implication

Complaint

'on information,' but is also sometimes used to describe a claim in an action of a civil or quasi-civil character. See STATE-MENT OF CLAIM. As to when a 'complaint' made to a third person and not in

Satisfaction

notion, and a sort of feeling of what is called a leaning against double portions--if the father (or quasi parent) afterwards advance a portion on the marriage, or preferment in life, of that child, though of less

Sisters

Sisters. Lord Coke says, omnes sorores sunt quasi unus h'res-all sisters are, as it were, one heir. See COPARCENERS.

Subrogation

where money has been borrowed without authority but applied in payment of existing debts; in such cases the quasi-lender is entitled to stand in the shoes of the creditors thus paid. See Re Wrexham, etc., Railway (1899)

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