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Passive trust
Passive trust, a trust as to which the trustee has no active duty to perform. Passive uses were resorted to...
Pandect', or Digesta
Pandect', or Digesta. In the last month of the year AD 530, Justinian, by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered...
Manor
Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate...
Extravagantes
Extravagantes, those decretal epistles which were published after the Clementines. They were so called because first they were not digested...
Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi
Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi (businessdays, holidays, and half-holidays). For the purpose of the administration of justice all days were...
Master of the Rolls
Master of the Rolls [magister rotulorum, Lat.], originally the chief of a body of officers called the Masters in Chancery,...
Remainder
Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate,...
Recovery
Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial. The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's...
Priority
Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of...
Paraphernalia
Paraphernalia [fr. pap', Gk., beyond; and fer'h, dower], jewellery and ornaments which a husband has given to his wife before...
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