LaL whole; untouched. Res integra meaus a questlon which is new and undecided. 2 Kent, Comm. 177
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In old Engllsh law. A kind of thleves Inhabiting Redesdale. on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or recelved such booties of cattle and other things as their
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Temporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste untll one or more crops have been raised on it Elton, Common, 277
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The underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made
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A rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See Insurgent
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To engage to indemnify a per-son against pecuniary loss from specified per* Us. To act as an insurer
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The person who obtains insurance on his property, or upon whose life an insurance is effected
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Such a real and substantial Interest in specific property as will sustain a contract to indemnify the person interested against its loss. Mutual
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A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually called the “insurer” or “underwrit-er;” the other, the “insured” or “assured;” the agreed consideration, the “premium;” the written contract, a “policy;” the events insured against, “risks” or “perils;” and the subject, right, or interest to be protected, the “insurable interest” 1 Phil. Ins. §§ 1-5
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Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin
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A quantity of corn paid by those who are thirled to a mill. See Thuulok
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In equity pleading. The legal inadequacy of an answer in equity which does not fully and specifically reply to some one or more of the material allegations, charges, or interrogatories set forth in the bill, white v. Joy, 13 N. Y. 89; Houghton v. Townsend, 8 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 446; Hill v. Fair Haven & W. R. Co., 75 Conn. 177, 52 Ati. 725
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A written document; a formal or legal document in writing, such as a contract, deed, will, bond, or lease* State v. Phillips, 157 Ind. 481, 62 N. E. 12; Cardenas v. Miller, 108 Cal. 250, 39 Pac. 788, 49 Am. St Rep. 84; Benson v. McMahon, 127 U. S. 457, 8 Sup. Ct 1240, 32 L. Ed. 234
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Lat That kind of evidence which consists of writings not under seal; as court-rolls, accounts, and the like. 3 Co. Litt 487
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To convey information as a client to an attorney, or as an attorney to a counsel; to authorize one to appear as ad-vocate; to give a case in charge to the jury
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In Frenob oriminal law. The first process of a criminal prosecu-tiou. It Includes the examination of the ac-cused, the preliminary interrogation of wit-nesses, collateral investigations, the gathering of evidence, the reduction of the whole to order, and the preparation of a document containing a detailed statement of the case, to serve as a brief for the prosecuting officers, and to furnish material for the indict-ment
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The commencement or inauguration of anything. The first estab-llshment of a law, ruie, rite, etc. Any cus-tom, system, organization, etc., firmly estah-llshed. An elementary rule or principle
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Lat Works contaln-lng the elements of any science; institutions or institutes, one of Justinian’s principal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so entitled. See Institutes
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titutes of Gains. An elementary work of the Roman jurist Gaius; important as having formed the foundation of the Institutes of Justinian, (a. v.) These Institutes were dis-covered by Niebuhr in 1816. in a coder rcscrip-tus of the library of the cathedral chapter at Verona, and were first published at Berlin in 1820. Two editions have since appeared. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 64.—Institutes of Justinian. One of the four component parts or principal divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, being an elementary treatise on the Roman law. in four books. This work was compiled from earlier sources, (resting principally on the Institutes of Gaius.) by a commission compos-ed of Tribonian. and two othera. by command and tinder direction of the emperor Justinian, and was first published November 21, A. D. 533.—Institutes of Lord Coke. The name of four volumes by Lord Coke, published A. D. 1628. The first is an extensive comment upon a treatise on tenures, comoiled by Littleton, a judge of the common pleas, temp. Edward
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Lat. In Ro-man law. The appointment of the hares in the will. It corresponds very nearly to the nomination of an executor in English law. without such an appointment the will was void at law, but the prator (i. e., equity) would, under certain circumstances, carry out the inteutlons of the testator. Brown
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Tbe charge given to a clerk to manage a shop or store. 1 Bell, Comm. 506, 507
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A name sometimes given to text-books containing the elementary prin-ciples of jurisprudence, arranged in an or* derly and systematic manner. For example, tbe Institutes of Justinian, of Gaius, of Lord Coke
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Lat in the civll law. A clerk in a store; an agent
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Lat in the civil law. Tbe name of an action glven to those who had contracted with an inatitor (q. v.) to compel tbe principal to perform-ance. Inst. 4, 7, 2; Dig. 14, 3, 1; Story, Ag. § 426
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