A term applied metaphorically to the series of conveyances, or other forms of alienation, affecting a particular parcel of land, arranged consecutive-ly, from the government or original source of title down to the present holder, each of the instruments included being called a “link.” Payne v. Markle, 89 III. 69
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A name glven to the pre-siding officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc
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A measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty-two yards in length
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An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to seal the writs, commissions, and other ln-struments thence issuing. The office was abolished by St 15 & 16 Vlct. c. 87, § 23
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An ancient term for goods, wares, and merchandise
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L. Lat. A horse for the chase, or a hound, dog, or courser
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In old English law. A sta-tlon of gamer more extended than a park, and less than a forest; also the liberty of chasing or hunting wi’thln a certain district; also the way through which cattle are driven to pasture, otherwise called a “drove-way.” Blount
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He. Used frequent* ly iu composition in law French phrases
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one who ceases or neglects so long to perform a duty that he thereby in-curs the danger of the law. O. N. B. 136
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The act of ceding; a yield-ing or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights
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In French law. The surrender which a debtor makes of all his goods to his creditors, when he finds himself in insolvent circumstances. It is of two kinds, either voluntary or compulsory, (Judiciairc,) corresponding very nearly to liquidation by arrangement and bankruptcy in Eugllsh and American law
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In Roman law. Cession of goods. A surrender, rellnqulsh-ment, or assignment of all his property and effects made by an insolvent debtor for the benefit of his creditors. Tbe effect of this voluntary action on the debtor’s part was to secure him against imprisonment or any bodily punishment, and from infamy, and to cancel his debts to the extent of the property ceded. It much resembled our voluntary bankruptcy or assignment for creditors. The term is commonly employed iu modern con-tinental jurisprudence to designate a bankrupt’s assignment of property to be distrib-uted among his creditors, aud is used in tlie same sense hy some Eugllsh and American writers, hut here rather as a conveuient than as a strictly technical term. See 2 Bl. Comm. 473; 1 Kent, Comm. 247, 422; Ersk. Inst. 4, 3, 26
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In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thiug claimed (vindicabat) the thiug as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, aud the magistrate prouounced it to be the property (addicebat) of the claimant Sandars’ Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 89, 122i
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(Let process stay.) A stay of proceedings entered on the record
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Lat. A cession; a giving up, or relinquishment; a surrender; an assignment
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Neglect; a ceasing from, or omission to do, a thing. 3 Bl. Comm. 232
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(Let execution stay.) In practice. A stay of execution; or an order for such stay; the entry of such stay on record. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1104
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In prac-tice. An obsolete writ, which could formerly have been sued out when the defendant had for two years ceased or neglected to perform such service or to pay such rent as he was bound to do by his tenure, and had not upon his lands sufficient goods or chattels to be distrained. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 208. It also lay where a religious house held lands on condition of performing certain spiritual services which it failed to do. 3 Bl. Comm. 232. Emig v. Cunningham, 62 Md. 460
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