ESTOP
To stop, bar, or impede; to prevent ; to preclude. Co. Litt 352a. See ESTOPPEL.
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To stop, bar, or impede; to prevent ; to preclude. Co. Litt 352a. See ESTOPPEL.
L. Fr. And of this they put themselves upon the country.
Equal laws and a well-ad- justed constitution of government.
On the other side. 2 Show. 461. Applied to counsel.
From the premises granted. According to what has been alreadyallowed.
By the hypothesis; upon the supposition; upon the theory or factsassumed.
On the mother’s side; of the maternal line.
Related on the side of both parents ; of the whole blood. Hale, Coin. Law, c. 11.
In Roman law. An exception. In a general sense, a judicial allegationopposed by a defendant to the plaintiff’s action. Calvin.A stop or stay to an action opposed by the defendant. Cowell.Answering to
Admitting of excuse or palliation. As used in the law, this word impliesthat the act or omission spoken of is on Its face unlawful, wrong, or liable to entail lossor disadvantage on
That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains tobe carried into operation or effect; incomplete ; depending upon a future performanceor event. The opposite of executed.
The trust given to a ship-master.
That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latinform of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ.
The voluntary act of abandoning one’s country, and becoming thecitizen or subject of another. Ludlam v. Ludlam, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 4S9. See EMIGRATION.
In English practice, a defense to an action on grounds which, priorto tlie passage of the common-law procedure act. (17 & 18 Vict c. 125,) would havebeen cognizable only in a court
Sax. The privilege of assisiug and selling beer. Obsolete.
An easterly coast or country.
In French law. One of the two parts or pieces of a wooden tally.That in possession of the debtor is properly called the “tally,” the other “echantillon.”Poth. Obi. pt 4, c. 1,
An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to theedict of the pnetor, put forth by the proconsuls and propraetors in the provinces of theRoman Empire. Mackeld. Rom.
I, such a one. Words used in describing the forms of old deeds. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14,