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The special properties and functions of the nerves that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves...
Factor
Factor [fr. facteur, Fr.], a substitute in mercantile affairs; an agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or delivered to him by or for his principal, for a compensation commonly called factorage or commission. Hence he is often called a commission-merchant or consignee; and the goods received by him for sale are called a consignment. He is a home factor when he resides in the same state or country with his principal, and a foreign factor when he resides in a different state or country. He differs from a broker in this, and he may buy and sell in his own name, and is entrusted with the possession and disposal of the goods, and has a special property in, and a lien on, them; yet neither can delegate his authority, unless conferred by usages of trade or the assent of his principal. Factors have no incidental authority to barter goods, or to pledge them for advances made to them on their own account, or debts due by themselves; but they may pledge them for advances made on a...
Heirloom
Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or a tombstone erected there, which go to the heir, together with the inheritance. The ancient jewels of the Crown are heirlooms. Heirlooms strictly so called are now rarely met with. See Williams on personal Property; Co. Litt. 18b, 185b; 2 Bl. Com. 428.The term 'heirlooms' is often applied in practice to the case where certain chattels--for example, pictures, plate, or furniture--are directed by will or settlement to follow the limitations thereby made of some family mansion or estate. But the word is not then employed in its strict and proper sense, nor is the disposition itself beyond a certain point effectual; for the Articles will, in such case, belong absolutely to the first person who, under the limitations of the settlement, becomes entitled to the real estate for a vested estate of inheritance; see Portman v. Viscount Po...
Bequeath
Bequeath [fr. becw'than fr. cw'than, A.S., to say], to leave by will to another. The word is properly applied to personalty only, but in a will avails to transmit real property, as well as the word 'devise,' which is the proper word; and vice versa.Means to speak to, address, leave by will to give by will, used specially of personal property but sometimes of real property, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., p. 49....
Damage, Malicious
Damage, Malicious. Punishable by the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law'), arson, and injuries to mines, cattle, works of art, ponds, railway carriages, and bridges being punishable specially. As to injuries to real or personal property not specially provided for, see s. 51 of the Act and the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 14, and the Fourth Schedule thereto....
special assessment
special assessment : a specific tax levied on private property to meet the cost of public improvements that provide a special benefit enhancing the value of the property ...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
deed
deed 1 : something done : act [my free act and ] 2 : a written instrument by which a person transfers ownership of real property to another see also deliver, grantee, grantor, recording act, registry, title compare certificate of title NOTE: A deed must be properly executed and delivered in order to be effective. Additionally, the grantor must have freely intended to make the transfer at the time of the conveyance. Deeds are recorded at the local registry of deeds to give notice of ownership. bargain and sale deed 1 : a contract resulting from a bargain between a buyer and a seller of real property that creates a use in the buyer and therefore transfers title to the buyer by operation of law 2 : a deed in which the grantor makes no warranties of title to the grantee deed of trust : an instrument securing a debt in which a debtor conveys the legal ownership of real property to a trustee to be held in trust for the benefit of the creditor or to be sold upon the debtor's defaul...
right of entry
right of entry 1 a : the legal right of taking or resuming possession of real property in a peaceable manner b : power of termination at power c : the legal right to enter upon real property of another for a special purpose (as to show leased property to a prospective purchaser or to make repairs) without being guilty of trespass 2 : the right of an alien to enter a nation, state, or other political jurisdiction for some special purpose (as journalism or academic study) ...
special use permit
special use permit : an authorization from an appropriate government body (as a zoning board) for a use of property that is a special exception : lawful approval for a special exception ...
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