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Quinto exactus
Quinto exactus, means 'exacted the fifth time'. A sheriff's return made after a defendant had been called to five county courts but failed to appear. The county coroners then ordered that the defendant be deprived of...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD. The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing...
Graveyard
Graveyard, Under the Mahomedan Law the graveyards may be of two kinds - a family or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses...
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Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been...
Contingency with a double aspect
Contingency with a double aspect, is a kind of executory interest which maybe termed an alternative interest. This is an 'interest that is only to vest in case the next preceding interest should never vest in...
Bill in criminal cases
Bill in criminal cases. Grand Juries were abolished by the (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), from 1st September, 1933, except in certain cases [s. 1 (9)]....
Advowson
Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on...
Executory devise
Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is...
Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo....
Hotchpot
Hotchpot [fr. hache en poche, Fr., a confused mingling of diverse things], a blending or mixing of lands and chattels, answering in some respects to the collatio bonorum of the Civil Law. 'And it seemeth that...
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