Tenant by the curtesy of Eugland is where a man survives a wife who was seised in fee-simple or fee-tail of lands or tenements, and has had issue male or female by her bom alive and capable of inheriting the wife’s estate as heir to her; in which case he will, on the decease of his wife, hold the estate during hie life as tenant by the curtesy of England. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. $ 1074
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A freehold ee-tate, not of inheritance, but which is held by
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An estate whereby the creditor, under the custom of London, retained the possession of all his debtor’s lands until his debts were paid. 1 Greenl. Cruise, Dig. 515. See Stat-utk Merchant.
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A species of es-tate less than freehold, where lands and tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to hold at the will of the lessor; and the tenant by force of thls lease obtains pos-session. 2 Bl. Comm. 145; 4 Kent, Comm. 110; Lltt $ 68. or it is where lands are let without limiting any certain and determinate estate. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 403, $ 1543
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1. Tbe interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property. 1 Prest. Est. 20. And see Van Rensselaer v. Poacher, 5 Denio (N. Y.) 40; Beall v. Holmes, 6 Har. & J. (Md.) 208 ; Mul-ford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 103; Robertson v. VanCleave, 129 Ind. 217, 22 N. B. 899, 29 N. EL 781, 15 L. R. A. 68; Ball v. Chadwick, 46 IU. 31; Cutts v. Com., 2 Mass. 289; Jack-son v. Parker, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 81. An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments slg-nlfies such interest as the tenant has there-in. 2 Bl. Comm. 108. The condition or circumstance in which the owner stands with regard to bis property. 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 2, | 942. In this sense, “estate” is con-stantly used in conveyances in connection with the words “right,” “title,” and “interest,” and is, in a great degree, synonymous with all of them. See Co. Litt. 345.
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L. Fr. A standard, (of weights and measures.) So called because it stands constant and immovable, and hath all other measures coming towards it for their conformity. Termes de la Ley
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In Spanish law. In Spanish America this was a measure of land of six-teen square varas, or yards. 2 white, Re-cop. 139
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In Spanish law. Delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused by the charterer or consignee, for which demurrage is payable
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This word occurs fre-quently in the constitution of the United States, and it is there used in different meanings: (1) To settle firmly, to fix unalterably ; as to establish justice, which is the avowed object of the constitution. (2) To make or form; as to establish a uniform ruie of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, which evidently does not mean that these laws shall be unalterably established as Justice. (3) To found, to create, to regulate; as; ‘’Congress shall have power to establish post-roads and post-offices.” (4) To found, recognize, confirm, or admit; as: “Congress shall make no law re-specting an establishment of religion.” (5) To create, to ratify, or confirm; as: “We
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An ordinance or statute. Especlally used of those ordinances or statutes passed in the reign of Edw. I. 2 Inst. 156; Britt. C. 21
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It is to be understood or known; “it is to-wit.” Lltt. g$ 9, 45, 46, 57, 59. A very common expression In Little-ton, especially at the commencement of a section; and, according to Lord Coke, “lt ever teacheth us some rule of law, or gen-eral or sure leading point” Co. Lltt. 16
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That whlch is indispensable to that of whlch It is the essence
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A writ to he quit of toll; it lies for citizens and burgesses of any city or town who, by charter or prescription, ought to be exempt-ed from toll, where the same is exacted of them. Reg. orig. 258.
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L. Fr. To cut down woods to clear land of trees and underwood; prop-erly to thin woods, by cutting trees, etc., at intervals. Spelman
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woodlands turned into tillage by uprooting the trees and removing the underwood
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In English law. A tide of dignity next above gentleman, and below knight. Also a title of office given to sher-iffs, serjeants, and barristers at law, justices of the peace, and others. 1 Bi. Comm. 406; 3 Steph. Comm. 15, note; Tomlins, on the use of this term in American law, particu-iarly as applied to justices of the peace and other inferior judicial officers, see Call v. Foresman, 5 watts (Pa.) 331; Christian v. Ashley County, 24 Ark. 151; Com. v. Vance, 15 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 37
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An old term for the products which the ground or land yields; as the hay of the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn of arable fields, rent and services, etc. The word has been anciently applied to the land itself. Jacob; Fosgate v. Hydraulic Co., 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 293
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