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Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if...
Birth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of...
Cui ante divortium
Cui ante divortium (to whom before divorce). A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in fee simple or in tail, or for life, from him...
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Jointress, or jointuress
Jointress, or jointuress, she who has an estate settled upon her by her husband, to hold during her life, at least provided she survives him.
Always Afloat
Always Afloat. Charter-parties often require that a ship shall discharge her cargo 'always afloat.' This means that the port to which she is sent to discharge must be one in which she can lie safely with...
guilty plea
guilty plea a criminal defendant's admission to the court that he or she committed the offense he or she is charged with and his or her agreement to waive the right to trial. If the court...
Acquiesce
Acquiesce, means to accept tacitly or passively, to give implied consent to an act, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 23. The word 'acquired' has also to be given the widest possible meaning. This would be...
affirmative relief
affirmative relief : relief requested by the defendant to a lawsuit for injury which he or she claims to have suffered during the same factual situation the plaintiff claims to have been injured in and for...
agency
agency pl: -cies 1 : the person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved [death by criminal "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 2 a : a consensual fiduciary...
arrest
arrest [Middle French arest, from arester to stop, seize, arrest, ultimately from Latin ad to, at + restare to stay] : the restraining and seizure of a person whether or not by physical force by someone...
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