CUSTOS STATUM HAEREDIS IN* CUSTODIA EXISTENT IS MELIOREM, NON DETERIOREM, FA- CERE POTEST
A guardian can make the estate of an existing heir under his guardianship better, not worse.
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A guardian can make the estate of an existing heir under his guardianship better, not worse.
In old English law. A cyrographer; an officer of the banc- us, or court of common bench. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30.
The expression of the monopoly of Oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible.
In the civil law. A guardian or trustee appointed to take care of property in certain cases; as for the benefit of creditors. Dig. 42, 7. In Scot’s law. The term is
In old English law. The mayor’s court. Calth. 144.
The currency of the country : whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v. McKinney. 5 Lea (Tenn.) 90. In this phrase
In old English law. Court lands. Cowell. See COUBT LANDS.
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(Lat. Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, or wool-pelts and leather exported were so called, and were payable by every merchant, stranger as well as native, with the exception
A chirograph, (which see.)
4 Kent, Comm. 403. When that which I do is of no effect as 1 do it, it shall have as much effect as it can; i.e., in some other way.
Surveyors of the highways.
A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.
This term means the same as “market value.” Cases of Champagne, 23 Fed. Cas. 11 OS.
A curtilage; the area or space within the inclosure of a dwellinghouse. Spelman.
Such as are due by ancient custom or prescription only.
In Hindu law. Corrupted from Kachari. A court; a hall; an office; the place where any public business is transacted.
The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basilides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.
Lat. With the will annexed. A term applied to administration granted where a testator makes an incomplete will, without naming any executors, or where he names incapable persons, or where the executors
The office of a curator. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q. v.,) in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person;