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Authentics, a collection of the Novels of Justinian, made by an anonymous author. So called on account of its authority, Civil Law.There is another collection so called, complied by Irnier, of incorrect extracts from the Novels and inserted by him in the Code, in the places to which they refer....
Mixed actions
Mixed actions. Suits at Common Law partaking of the nature of real and personal actions, by which some real property was demanded, and also personal damages for a wrong sustained, were so called. They substantially partook, however, of the character of real actions, and were often so called, but they are now abolished, except the action of ejectment, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27. Correctly speaking, however, ejectment is in its form a species of the personal action of trespass. Steph. Plead. App. vii. See Now ACTION.Those in Roman Law, in which some specific thing was demanded, and where also some personal obligations were claimed to be performed, Hallifax on Roman Law, 85...
Hospitallers
Hospitallers, the knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem wherein pilgrims were received. On the suppression of the Templar the Pope transferred their property to the Hospitallers, who were in their turn suppressed, and all their lands and goods in England given to the sovereign by 32 Hen. 8, c. 24.A military and religious order founded by catholic church in the 12th century and so called because it built a hospital at Jerusalem to care for pilgrims, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 742...
Dextrose
A sirupy or white crystalline variety of sugar C6H12O6 so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right occurring in many ripe fruits and also called glucose Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose and hence the mixture is called called invert sugar Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch and hence called also starch sugar It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice...
Herald
Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers genealogies, adjusts ensigns armorial, regulates funerals, and carries messages between princes, and proclaims war and peace. Heralds were anciently called Dukes at Arms, probably from the Latin ducere ad arma; because the conducting of affairs concerning peace and war devolved upon them, their office being to carry messages to the enemy, and to proclaim war and peace. Hence the persons of heralds were deemed sacred by the law of nations, and were received and protected by belligerent powers, as flags of truce are in the present day. The three chief heralds are called Kings of Arms; of whom (1) Garter is the principal, instituted by Henry V. His office is to attend the Knights of the Garter at their solemnities, and to marshal the funerals of the nobility. (2) Clarencieux King...
Customary freeholds
Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition of the Lexicon. ' Also denominated, privileged copyholds of frank tenure; they were known inancient times as estates inprivileged villenage or villein socage, and are estates held by custom, but not at the lord's will, in which they differ from copyholds; yet the will of the lord in copyhold is reduced to a mere fiction. These lands are of such singular nature that, when they are compared with mere copyholds, they may be called freeholds, and when compared with absolute freeholds, they maybe denominated copyholds. While the freehold interest or estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure is in the lord. (Mr. Serjeant Scriven dissents from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by surrender into...
Calling the jury
Calling the jury, successively drawing out of a box, into which they have been previously put, the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve persons whose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn or the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward....
spread
spread 1 a : the difference between any two prices for similar articles [the between the list price and the market price of an article] b : the difference between the highest and lowest prices of a product or security for a given period c : the difference between bid and asked prices (as of a stock) 2 a : a simultaneous put option and call option in which the put price and the call price differ so that no profit is made unless the price falls below or rises above the put or call price respectively by more than enough to cover the cost of the option ;also : the difference between the put price and call price b : a transaction in which a participant hedges with simultaneous long and short options in different commodities or different delivery dates in the same commodity 3 : an arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two markets when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets ;also : the difference in price 4 : the differenc...
Administrator
Administrator, means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002). [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 80C(8)(i)].Administrator means a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)]--he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice). (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 56(3). By the (English) Court of Probate Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) (re-enacted in (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 175), 'Administration' includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without the will annexed, and whether granted for ge...
Quasi-entail
Quasi-entail. An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a quasi-entail; the interest so granted not being properly an estate-tail (for the statute De Donis applies only where the subject of the entail is an estate of inheritance), but yet so far in the nature of an estate-tail, that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body. And such estate may also be granted with a remainder thereon during the life of the cestui que vie; and the alienation of the quasi tenant-in-tail will bar not only his issue, but those in remainder. The alienation, however, for that purpose (unlike that of an estate-tail, properly so called), might, before 1926, have been effected by any method of conveyance except a will; after 1926, these estates became equitable ...
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