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Partition

Partition, is mitakshara 'partition' may be only severance of the joint status of the members of the coparcenary, that it...

Servi, bondmen, or servile tenants.They were of four sorts: (1) Such as sold themselves for a livelihood. (2) Debtors sold...

Terms, the periods during which the superior courts at Westminster were open. The legal year consists of four terms: Michaelmas,...

Turnpike-roads, ways maintained out of tolls not paid by passengers. These did not fall within the operation of the Highway...

Local actions, those referring to some particular locality, as actions for trespasses to land, in which the venue must have...

Lottery, a game of chance; a distribution of prizes by lot or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207....

Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly...

Case, action on the. The action on the case lay where a party sued for damages for any wrong or...

County palatine [fr. Palatium, Lat., a court]. There were three of these counties--Chester, Durham, and Lancaster. The two former were...