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This word is said to be derived from “huissier” and is the name of a subordinate officer in some English courts of […]

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

The actual exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

L. Fr. In old practice. Tbe pursuing or bringing an action. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person for whose use a suit is brought; otherwise termed the “use plain-tiff Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

By “useful,” in the patent law, is meant not an invention in all cases superior to the modes now in use for […]

Usage is a reasonable and law-ful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be effected thereby, […]

In mercantile law. The com-mon perlod fixed by the usage or custom or habit of deallng between the country where a blll […]

City servitudes, or servitudes of houses, are called “urban.” They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, […]

Lat in Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes it is put for civitas, and denotes the inhabitants, or both […]

In Scotch law. Between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Poinding must be executed with upsun. 1 Forb. InsL pt. 3, p. […]

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

The court of king’s bench, in England, waa 80 called during the Interval between 1649 and 1660. the period of the commonwealth, […]

In sales by auctions, an amount for which property to be sold is put up, so that the first bidder at that […]

All that portion of the law, observed and administered in the courts, which hns not been enacted or promulgated in the form […]

The hand raised towards the heavens, in one of the forms of taking an oatb, instead of being laid upon the Gospels […]

The rule of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of onc witness is equivalent to the testimony of […]

Food not fit to be eaten; food which if eaten would be injurious Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A prodigal; a spendthrift 1 Bi. Comm. 306 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This term generally excludes the day to which it relates; but it will be construed otherwise, if required by the evident intention […]

war denounced without a declaration; war made not upon general but special declaration; Imperfect war. People v. McLeod, J. Hill (N. Y.) […]

A person of unsound mind is an adult who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his af-falrs. The […]

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

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

L. Fr. Ever; always. Ne unques, never Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)