A right in tbe owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such owner-shlp, to use the laud of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general prop-erty in the owner. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 25
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In the customs laws of the United States, the term “countries east of the Cape of Good Hope” means countries with which, formerly, the United States ordinarily car-ried on commercial intercourse by passing around that cape. Powers v. Comley, 101 U. S. 790, 25 L. Ed. 805
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
This term is used to denote a larger class of credlts than would be in-cluded in the term “wages.” Somers v. Kellher, 115 Mass. 165; Jenks v. Dyer, 102 Mass. 235
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Soil of all klnds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, lu distinction from the firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough-keepsle, 75 N. Y. 76
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of part of such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract Howe v. Hayward, 108 Mass. 54, 11 Am. Rep. 306
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A mark put upon a thing to distinguish it from another, originally and literally, a mark upon the ear; a mode of marking sheep and other animals
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A title of nobility, formerly the highest in England, now the third, ranking between a marquis and a viscount, and cor-respouding with the French “comte” and the German “graf.” The title originated with the Saxons, and is the most ancient of the English peerage, william the Conqueror first made this title hereditary, giving it in fee to his nobles; and alloting them for tbe support of their state the third penny out of the sheriff’s court, issuing out of all pleas of the shire, whence they had their ancient title “shiremen.” At present the title is accom-panied by no territory, private or judicial rights, but merely coufers nobility and an hereditary seat in the* house of lords, whar-ton
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Sax. The privllege of asslslng and selling beer, obsolete
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In English law. Such grass which is upon the land after the mowing, untii the feast of the Annunciation after. 3 Leon. 213
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Sax. The metropolis; the chief dty. obsolete
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
(Fr. eale, Sax., ale, and bus, house.) An ale-house
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
or EALDING. In old SaxoU law. An elder or chief
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
with that lntent Held not to make a condition, but a confidence and trust. Dyer, 138b
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A distributive adjective pronoun, which denotes or refers to every one of the
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A state of the stomach in which Its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minor importance. Dungl. Med. Dict
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In medical Jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain the act of sexual intercourse except with great difficulty and paln
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without is-sue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been changed in some of the states, by statute or decisions, and in England by St. 7 wm. IV., and 1 Vict. c. 26, § 29
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
The house in which a man lives with his family; a resi-dence; the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)