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Loam

A kind of soil an earthy mixture of clay and sand with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due

Plus petitio, or Pluris petitio

his demand (in the intentio of the formula) more than his due. It happens in four ways. See Sand. Just.

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Hypothecation

possession of the thing pledged, as distinguished from pignus, where the possession was transferred to the pledge. See Sand. Just; Sith's dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Pignus'], the act of pledging a thing as security for a debt … nearest approaches, perhaps, are the cases of holders of bottomry bonds, and of seamen to whom wages are due in the merchant service, who have a claim against the ship in rem. But these are rather cases

Altius non tollendi

of a house, by which he is restrained from building beyond a certain height, Dig. 8, 2, 4; Sand. Just. … Altius non tollendi, a servitude due by the owner of a house, by which he is restrained from building beyond a certain height, Dig.

Fidei-commissum

the time of Hadriam, such fidei-commissa were ultimately assimilated to legacies, Gaius, ii. 247-289; Ulp. Frag. tit. 25; Sand. Just. An arrangement similar to a trust by which a testator gave property to a person for the … latter might be imposed on a legatee. It appears that there were no legal means of enforcing the due discharge of the trust called fidei-commissum till the time of Augustus, who gave the consuls jurisdiction in the

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