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Sucken

Sucken, the whole lands astricted to a mill, the tenants of which are bound to grind there, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been vested in trustees for sale as … speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the

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Law

habitually by an individual or a class. When sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may be imposed on all individuals who consent … Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule

Civil Law

elected to sit upon this commission, the only one re-elected being Appius Claudius. In the former year the whole ten had been taken from the patrician class, but this year three of them were plebeians. The new … Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly

Pawn or Pledge

of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time,

Apportionment

Apportionment, a division of a whole into parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It is either (1) Apportionment … Apportionment in respect of time, or (2) Apportionment in respect of estate. Apportionment in respect of Time.--At Common Law there is no apportionment in respect of time. when a successor in interest succeeds just before a rent

Jus

as were brought before him; he appointed a judex for that purpose, and gave him instructions. Accordingly, the whole procedure was expressed by the two phrases Jus and Judicium; of which the former comprehended all that took … Jus, law, right, equity, authority, and rule. A Roman 'magistratus' generally did not investigate the facts in dispute in such

Insurance

losses. Marine Insurance.--The practice of marine insurance is older than insurance against fire and upon lives, and the whole of the law is now codified in the (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41).

Trust for sale

the heir-at-law, Ackroyd v. Smithson, (1780) 1 Bro CC 503. Another and more practical consequence was that the whole estate was vested as a rule in the trustees so that with or without consent of any other

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