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Lat This is an agreement, words with which agree-ments anciently commenced. Yearb. H. 6 Edw. II. 191 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holy orders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders. Cowell; […]

In old English law. Hatred; ill will; prejudice, or partiality. Spelman; Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. The pub-lic domaln; the royal estate; the aggregate wealth of the state. The science of admin-isterlng the national wealth; […]

Carriages plying for hire In the street. The driver is liable for negligently losing baggage. Mas-terson v. Short, 33 How. Prac. (N. […]

A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of in-toxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent […]

L. Fr. In old English law. A port or harbor; a station for ships. St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 3 Source: Black’s […]

In tbe civil law. Tbe Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony, having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice so […]

Fr. In French and Ca-nadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenant who kept hearth and home on the selgniory Source: […]

Lat in the civU law. The right of dwelling; the right of free resi-dence in another’s house. Inst. 2, 5; Dig. 7,8 […]

A covenant by a lessee to “pat the premlses into habitable repair” binds bim to pat them into such a state that […]

Settled dwelling in a given place; fixed and permanent residence there. This term is more cpmprehenslve than “domicile,” for one may he […]

Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of au-thority of the king.) Du […]

A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usual repetitlon of the same act or function. […]

A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Have or take your effects to yourself, one of the old Roman forms of divorcing a wife. Cal* vin Source: Black’s […]

Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sherifT to take a view of lands or tenements […]

Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow […]

Lat. That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted to by the successful party in an action […]

L. Lat Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Riches, Mon. Angl. t 1, 100 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civU law. To have. Sometimes distinguished from tenere, (to hdld,) and possidere, (to possess;) habere referring to the right, […]

Lat. In conveyancing. Tiie clanse usually following the granting part of the premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the […]

In old Eng-llsh law. Rich men; literally, having men. The same with fees ting-men, (q. v.) Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]