Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord
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In American practice. The beginning; the commencement; tbe first ad-dress of tbe counsel
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Lat A burden or load; a weight The lading, burden, or cargo of a vessel. A charge; an incumbrance. Cum onere, (q. v.,) with the incumbrance
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Lat By aid and coun-sel. A dvii law term applled to accessaries, similar in import to the “aiding and abetting” .of ,the common law. often written “ope et consilio” Burrill
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A term applied to the signature of an instrument, the body of which is in a different handwriting from that of the signature.. Best, Ev. 315
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Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts of the early colonial period in New York. See Spraker v. Van Alstyne, 18 wend. (N. Y.) 208.
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Lat. In the civil law. The servitude of support; a servitude by which the wall of a house is required to sustaln the wall or beams of the adjoining house
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A contract, lease, share, or other right is said to be “onerous” when the obligations attaching to it counter-balance or exceed the advantage to be derived from it, either absolutely or with reference to the particular possessor. Sweet
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A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant in common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg. orig. 182.
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In pleading. The name of a plea, in an action of debt, by which the defendant says that he ought not to be charged
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A precautionary stipulation in-serted in a deed making a good tenant to the praecipe in a common recovery. See 1 Prest. Conv. 110
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A phrase used to express the condition of a person charged with crime, who has once already, by legal proceedings, been pat in danger of conviction and punishment for the same offense. See Com. v. Fitzpatrick, 121 Pa. 109, 15 AtL 466, 1 L K. A. 451, 6 Am. St. Rep. 757
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These words, inserted in a stipulation to do an act or pay money, entitle the party stipulating to perform at any time before the day; and upon per-formance, or tender and refusal, he is immediately vested with all the rights which would have attached if performance were made on the day. wall v. Simpson, 6 J. J. Marsh. (Ky.) 150. 22 Am. Dec. 72
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This rule signlfles that an Instrument orlglnally intended as a mort-gage, and not a deed, cannot be converted into anything else than a mortgage by any subsequent clause or agreement
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Filed; entered or placed upon the files; – existing aud remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. 95 (Gll. 71); Snider v. Methvin, 60 Tex. 487
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A phrase used in re-citing the date of an occurrence or convey-ance, to escape the necessity of being bound by tbe statement of an exact date
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In case of default; upon failure of stipulated action or performance; upon the occurrence of a failure, omission, or neglect of duty
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A promissory note pay-able “on demand” is a present debt, and is payable without any demand. Voung v. Weston, 39 Me. 492; Appeal of Andress, 99 Pa. 421
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There is no legal difference between an obligation payable “when de-manded” or “on demand” and one payable “on call” or “at any time called for.” In each case the debt is payable immediately. Bowman v. McCheeuey, 22 Grat (Va.) 609
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These words may be construed to mean “on the terms,” in order to effectuate the Intention of parties. Mea-nor v. McKowan, 4 watts & S. (Pa.) 302
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