ENGROSSING
In English law. The getting into one’s possession, or buying up, largequantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The totalengrossing of any other commodity, with intent
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In English law. The getting into one’s possession, or buying up, largequantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The totalengrossing of any other commodity, with intent
In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery,king’s bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the recordsof the quarter sessions, of any
Whole; without division, separation or diminution.
Lat. At that instant; at the very or same Instant; immediately. 1 Bl.Comm. 196, 249 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 168; Co. l.itt. 208a; 1 Coke. 138.
In the civil law. Rescripts ; opinions given by the emperors in cases submittedto them for decision.Answers of the emperors to petitions.The answers of counsellors, (juris-consul- it,) as Ulpian and others, to
The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England,particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offensesagainst religion and morality should be punished by the civil
A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of mattersof fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law.Such a mistaken or false conception or
Robbers, or destroyers of other men’s lands and fortunes. Cowell.
A writ to be quit of toll; it lies for citizens and burgesses of any city or town who, bycharter or prescription, ought to be exempted from toll, where the same Is
One which is not yet in possession, but the enjoyment of which is to begin at a future time;a present or vested contingent right of future enjoyment. These are remainders and reversions.Fenton
Straightened, as applied to roads. Cowell.
And thereupon he brings suit. The Latin conclusion of a declaration, except against attorneysand other officers of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 295.
Each one of all; the term includes all the separate individuals who constitute the whole, regarded one by one. Geary v. Parker, 65 Ark. 521, 47 S. W. 238; Purdy v.People, 4
By or with the consent of the father. A species of dower adostium ecclesite, during the life of the father of the husband; the son, by the father’sconsent expressly given, endowing his
From a delict, tort, fault, crime, or malfeasance. In both the civil andthe common law, obligations and causes of action are divided into two great classes,
By the king’s license. 1 Bl. Comm. 168, note.
Of his own accord.
In the civil law. A gatherer or receiver of money; a collector of taxes. Cod. 10, 19.In old English law. A collector of the public moneys; a tax-gatherer. Thus, exactorregis was the
Tending to or marked by excess, which is the quality or state of exceeding the proper or reasonable limit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga.i.30, 32 S. E. 78.
In the civil law. A diligent prosecution of a remedy against a debtor; theexhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor, before resorting to his sureties.Translated “discussion,” (q. v.)In old English law.
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