To shut out; to bar. Used of the process of destroying an equity of redemption existing in a mortgagor
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A process in chancery by which all further right existing In a mort-gagor to redeem the estate is defeated and lost to him, and the estate becomes the abso-lute property of the mortgagee; being appli-cable when the mortgagor has forfeited his estate by non-payment of the money due on the mortgage at the time appointed, but still retains the equity of redemption. 2 washb. Real Prop. 237. Goodman v. white, 26 Conn. 322; Arrington v. Liscom, 34 Cal. 376, 94 Am. Dec. 722; Appeal of Ansonia Nat. Bank, 58 Conn. 257. 18 Atl. 1030; willlams v. wilson, 42 or. 299, 70 Pac. 1031, 95 Am. St. Rep 745
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In old records. Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches. Cowell
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A butt or headland, jutting out upon other land. Cowell
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In old European law. He who first assaulted another. Spelman
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In North Carolina, this is an invasion of the rights of auother with respect to his personal prop-erty, of the same character, or under the same circumstances, which would constitute a “forcible entry and detainer” of real prop-erty at common law. It consists in taking or seizing the personal property of another by force, violence, or intimidation. State v. Lawson, 123 N. C. 740, 31 S. E. 667, 68 Am. St. Rep. 844; State v. Barefoot, 89 N. C. 567; State v. Ray, 32 N. C. 40; State v. Sowls, 61 N. C. 151; State v. Laney, 87 N
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In old records. A ford or shal-low, made hy damming or penning up the water. Cowell
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An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, com-mltted by violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms, against the will of those entitled to the possession, and without the authority of law. 4 Bl. Comm. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280; Code Ga. 1882, | 4524
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The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recover possession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases does not involve title, but is confined to the actual and peace-able possession of the plaintiff and the un-lawful or forcible ouster or detention hy de-fendant; the object of the law being to pre-vent the disturbance of the public peace by the forcible assertion of a private right. Gore v. Altice, 33 wash. 335, 74 Pac. 556; Eveleth v. Gill, 97 Me. 315, 54 Atl. 757.
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The offense of violently keeping possession of lands and tenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law. 4 Bl. Comm. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280
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In Louisiana. Those persons whom the testator or donor cannot deprive of the portion of hia estate reserved for them by law, except in cases where he has a just canse to disinherit them. CivU Code La. art. 1495. And see Crain v. Crain, 17 Tex. 90; Hagerty v. Hagerty, 12 Tex. 456; Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, 29 South. 802
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In practice. A sale made at the time and in the manner pre* scribed by law, in virtue of execution issued on a judgment already rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; a sale made under the process of the court, and in the mode prescribed by law. Sampson v. williamson, 6 Tex. 110, 55 Am. Dec. 762
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Power dynamically considered, that is, in motion or in action; constraining power, compulsion; strength directed to an end. Usually the word occurs in such connections as to show that unlawful or wrong-ful action is meant, watson v. Railway Co.} 7 Misc. Rep. 562, 28 N. Y. Supp. 84; Plank Road Co. v. Robbins, 22 Barb. (N. Y.)’667
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RE. Fr. In the law of insurance. Superior or irresistible force. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12
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In old Engllsh law. The aggressor slain in combat Jacob
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The act of abstaining from proceeding against a delinquent debtor; delay in exacting the enforcement of a right; indulgence granted to a debtor. Reynolds v. ward, 5 wend. (N. Y.) 504; Diercks v. Ken-nedy, 16 N. J. Eq. 211; Dry Dock Bank v. American Life Ins., etc., Co., 3 N. Y. 354
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In forest law. one who could make oath, i. e., bear wltness for an-other. Cowell; Spelman
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In old records. A fore-balk; a balk (that is, an unplow’ed piece of land) lying forward or next the highway. Cowell
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