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Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works […]

In American practice. The beginning; the commencement; tbe first ad-dress of tbe counsel Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Tbe time after com is car Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat A burden or load; a weight The lading, burden, or cargo of a vessel. A charge; an incumbrance. Cum onere, (q. […]

Lat By aid and coun-sel. A dvii law term applled to accessaries, similar in import to the “aiding and abetting” .of ,the […]

A term applied to the signature of an instrument, the body of which is in a different handwriting from that of the […]

Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts […]

Lat. In the civil law. The servitude of support; a servitude by which the wall of a house is required to sustaln […]

A contract, lease, share, or other right is said to be “onerous” when the obligations attaching to it counter-balance or exceed the […]

Lat A lading; a cargo Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See O. Ni Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant in common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of […]

In pleading. The name of a plea, in an action of debt, by which the defendant says that he ought not to […]

A precautionary stipulation in-serted in a deed making a good tenant to the praecipe in a common recovery. See 1 Prest. Conv. […]

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

A phrase used to express the condition of a person charged with crime, who has once already, by legal proceedings, been pat […]

L. Fr. Accused. Du Cange Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

These words, inserted in a stipulation to do an act or pay money, entitle the party stipulating to perform at any time […]

This rule signlfles that an Instrument orlglnally intended as a mort-gage, and not a deed, cannot be converted into anything else than […]

Filed; entered or placed upon the files; – existing aud remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. […]

A phrase used in re-citing the date of an occurrence or convey-ance, to escape the necessity of being bound by tbe statement […]

In case of default; upon failure of stipulated action or performance; upon the occurrence of a failure, omission, or neglect of duty […]

A promissory note pay-able “on demand” is a present debt, and is payable without any demand. Voung v. Weston, 39 Me. 492; […]

There is no legal difference between an obligation payable “when de-manded” or “on demand” and one payable “on call” or “at any […]

These words may be construed to mean “on the terms,” in order to effectuate the Intention of parties. Mea-nor v. McKowan, 4 […]