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Tack
add one's own period of land possession to a prior possessor's period to establish continuous adverse possession for statutory period, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1465. Means to combine (a use, possession or period of time)
Judge made
often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this Judge made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law
cause
a : a ground of a legal action [tortious conduct is not a of divorce embraced within the statutory cause of cruel and inhuman treatment "Case & Comment"] b : case [questions of law…determinative of the then
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common-law copyright
a copyright in common law protecting unpublished works NOTE: Works created after January 1, 1978, are protected by statutory rather than common-law copyright while unpublished.
succession
statute as distinguished from the transfer in accordance with the decedent's will ;also : the operation of such statutory provisions in transmitting intestate property [would take the property by intestate succession] 2 in the civil law of
Conveyance
s. 2(b)] The voluntary transfer of a right or of property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Conveyance, the statutory provision extends to all forms of disposition by which creditors may be defrauded, except a will, and except,
Executory devise
an executory limitation including an executory devise should be capable of taking effect as an executory limitation. These statutory provisions have been repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1924, Sched. 10, and future legal estates
rule
law or policy or that describes the organization, procedure, or practice of the agency itself [a subject to statutory notice and comment requirements for informal rulemaking] 4 a : a regulation or bylaw governing procedure or conduct
statute
status position, state] 1 : a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government see also code, statutory law 2 : an act of a corporation or its founder intended as a permanent rule 3 : an
constitutional law
constitutional law : a body of statutory and case law that is based on, concerns, or interprets a constitution
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