An afternoon’s exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the PariMce (little-go) of oxford, wharton
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Lat Chlld; offspring; the child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth
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A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, tranaac-tlon, or proceeding, considered individually. See Pasties
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A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place thelr moncy. effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a proportional sharing of the
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The dividing of lands held by Joint tenants, coparceners, or tenants in common, into distinct portions, so that they may hold them in severalty. And, in a less technical seuse, any division of real or personal property between co-owners or co-proprietors. Meacham v. Meacham, 91 Tenn. 532, 19 S. W. 757; Hudgins v. Sansora, 72 Tex. 229. 10 S. W. 104; weiser v. weiser, 5 watts (Pa.) 279, 30 Am. Dec. 313; Gay ▼
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A member of a copartner-ship or firm; one who has united with others to form a partnership In business. See Partnership
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sification. Formal parties are those who have no interest in the controversy between tbe immediate litigants, but bave an interest in the subject-matter which may be conveniently settled in tbe suit, and thereby prevent further litigation; they may be made parties or not, at the option of the complainant. Chadbourne v. Coe, 51 Fed. 479, 2 C. C. A. 82,7.—Necessary parties are those parties who have such an interest in the subject-matter of a suit in equity, or whose rights are so involved in the contro-versy, that no complete and effective decree can be made, dispoptyg of the matters in issue and
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Lat. In the civil law. Par-tltlon; dlvlslon. Thls word did not always signify dimidium, a dividing into halves. Dig. 50, 16, 164, 1
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Tbe persons who take part in the performance of any act, or who are directly Interested in any affair, eontract, or conveyance, or who are actively concerned in the proseeution and defense of any legal proceeding. U. S. v. Henderlong (C. C.) 102 Fed. 2; Robbins v. Chicago, 4 wall. 672, 18 L. Bd. 427; Green v. Bogue, 158 U. S. 478, 15 Sup. Ct. 975, 39 L. Ed. 1061; Hughes v. Jones, 116 N. Y. 67, 22 N. E. 446, 5 L. R. A. 637, 15 Am. St. Rep. 386. See also Babtt
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This term, as nsed fn law, is almost always opposed to “general,” and means either individual, local, partial, special, or belonglng to a single person, place, or thing
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The details of a claim, or the separate Items of an account, when these are stated in an orderly form, for the information of a defendant, the statement is called a “bl|l of particulars,” (q. v
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Lat A participant; a sharer; anciently, a part owner, or parcener
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Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal
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Lat in Roman law. A legatee who was entitled, hy the directions of the will, to receive a share or portion of the inheritance left to the beir
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Lat. The party not having appeared. The condition of a cause called “default.”
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In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by lt. A plea to a fine which’ had been levied by a stranger. 2 Bl. Comm. 857; 1 P. wms. 520.
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In French law. A division made between co-proprietors of a particular estate held by them in common. It is the operation by means of which the goods of a succession are divided among the co-heirs; while licitatlon (q. v.) is an adjudication to the highest bidder of objects which are not divisible. Duverger
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