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Terms, the periods during which the superior courts at Westminster were open. The legal year consists of four terms: Michaelmas,...

Treason [fr. trahir, Fr., to betray; proditio, Lat.], or leze-majesty, an offence against the duty of allegiance, and the highest...

Whole blood. 'A kinsman of the whole blood is he that is derived not only from the same ancestor, but...

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Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable...

Inheritance, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by...

Inspection of written documents. It was provided by the (English) Evidence Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99), s....

Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the...

Indorsement [fr. in, Lat., upon, and dorsum, a back], anything written or printed upon the back of a deed or...

Collateral, indirect, sideways, that which hangs by the side; applied in several ways, thus:--collateral assurance, that which is made over...

Ibid., means in the same place. This abbreviation, used in citations (mostly outside law), denotes that the reference is to...

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