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To vindicate again to reclaim to demand and take back...
Animals
Animals may be divided into--(1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641.(2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc.(3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME.Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until they are caught or reclaimed. As to the liability of the owner for mischief done by a wild beast, or by a vicious domestic animal, see MISCHIEVOUS ANIMAL.Dogs. As to injury by dogs and seizure of stray dogs, see DOG.Malicious Damage. By the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 40, the unlawful and malicious killing, maiming, or wounding of cattle is made a felony. And by s. 41, the unlawful and malicious killing or wounding any animal not being cattle, but being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or be...
Redemption
Redemption, is the act of redeeming, which in its ordinary meaning is equal to bringing off a charge or obligation by payment--.By the down payment, the entire land revenue to be recovered from that land was redeemed.Redemption, is the act of redeeming, which, in its ordinary meaning is equal to bringing off a charge or obligation by payment, Sarish Chandra v. CLT, AIR 1961 SC 487: (1961) 1 SCJ 495.Redemption. 1. A paying off of a loan (see FUNDS). The term is used especially with reference to the paying off of a mortgage debt. An action of redemption is a suit brought to compel the mortgagee to recover the property to the mortgagor on the latter paying the mortgage debt. See EQUITY OF REDEMPTION; PROVISO FOR REDEMPTION.2. Commutation or the substitution of one lump payment for a succession of annual ones: e.g., see the Land Tax and the Tithe Redemption Acts and many other statutes.Redemption is the act of redeeming which in its ordinary meaning is equal to bringing off a charge or obl...
Industriam, per
Industriam, per, a qualified property in animals fer' natur' may be acquired per industriam, i.e., by a man's reclaiming and making them tame by art, industry, and education; or by so confining them within his own immediate power that they cannot escape and use their natural liberty, 2 Steph. Com...
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
Recusants
Recusants, persons who wilfully absented them-selves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes (e.g., 1 Eliz. c. 2, and 3 Jac. 1, c. 4; repealed by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 59) passed during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. And see Canons 65, 66, by which Ministers are enjoined to denounce Recusants, and Ministers being Preachers to 'labour diligently with them from time to time thereby to reclaim them from their errors.'...
Restorable
Admitting of being restored capable of being reclaimed as restorable land...
Revendicate
To reclaim to demand the restoration of...
Polder
A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments...
Reclamation
The act or process of reclaiming...
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