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Lat. In the clvll law. To follow after; to pursue or claim in form of law. An actlon is called a “jus […]

Purchase. Acqulsltion by one’s own act or agreement, and not hy descent Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A purchaser; one who first acquired an estate to his famlly; one who acquired an estate by sale, […]

That fiction of the English law which for certain political purposes ascribes to the king in hls political capacity the attribute of […]

In Its most extensive sense, “perquisites” signifies anything obtalh-ed by industry or purchased with money, dif Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainder, and of either real or personal property, which is not to vest […]

Generally, this term denotes the person who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agen-cy it occurs. But, where […]

Never ceasing; continu-ous; enduring; lasting; unlimited in respect of time; continuing without intermission or interval. See Scanlan v. Crawshaw, 5 Mo. App. […]

L. Fr. A taker. Le per-nour ou le detenour, the taker or the detain-er. Britt, c. 27 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

L. Lat. A purpart; a part of the inheritance Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Taking; a taking or re* ceiving; as of the profits of an estate. Actu-al pernancy of the profits of an estate is […]

He who receives the profits of lands, etc.; he who has the actual pernancy of tbe profits Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The exchange of one movable subject for another; barter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ to an ordi-nary, commanding him to admit a clerk to a benefice upon exchange made with another. Reg. orig. 307 […]

A license or Instrument grant-ed by the officers of excise, (or customs,) certifying that the duties on certain goods Source: Black’s Law […]

Lat. In the civil law. Exchange.; barter. Dig. 19, 4 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Negations of law, arising either from the law’s silence or lts ex-press declaration. Ruth. Inst. b. 1, c. 1 Source: Black’s Law […]

Allowed; allowable; that which may be done Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in law to “temporary.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful Source: Black’s […]

To come to an end; to cease to be; to die Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In criminal law. The wlllful assertion as to a matter of fact, oplnlon, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a […]

Recurring at fixed Inter- . vals; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals of […]

Circumlocution; use of many words to express the sense of one Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)