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Tenant by the curtesy of Eugland is where a man survives a wife who was seised in fee-simple or fee-tail of lands […]

A freehold ee-tate, not of inheritance, but which is held by Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

An estate whereby the creditor, under the custom of London, retained the possession of all his debtor’s lands until his debts were […]

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

A species of es-tate less than freehold, where lands and tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to […]

1. Tbe interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property. 1 Prest. Est. 20. And see […]

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

L. Fr. A standard, (of weights and measures.) So called because it stands constant and immovable, and hath all other measures coming […]

wears or kiddles in rlv-ers Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. In Spanish America this was a measure of land of six-teen square varas, or yards. 2 white, Re-cop. 139 […]

In Spanish law. Delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused by the charterer or consignee, for which demurrage […]

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

A bridge or stank of stone or timber. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This word occurs fre-quently in the constitution of the United States, and it is there used in different meanings: (1) To settle […]

An ordinance or statute. Especlally used of those ordinances or statutes passed in the reign of Edw. I. 2 Inst. 156; Britt. […]

A person who made an essoin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

It is to be understood or known; “it is to-wit.” Lltt. g$ 9, 45, 46, 57, 59. A very common expression In […]

That whlch is indispensable to that of whlch It is the essence Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ to he quit of toll; it lies for citizens and burgesses of any city or town who, by charter or […]

L. Fr. To cut down woods to clear land of trees and underwood; prop-erly to thin woods, by cutting trees, etc., at […]

woodlands turned into tillage by uprooting the trees and removing the underwood Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Span. In Spanish law. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. A tide of dignity next above gentleman, and below knight. Also a title of office given to sher-iffs, serjeants, […]

An old term for the products which the ground or land yields; as the hay of the meadows, the herbage of the […]