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Fr. In French law. An expression employed to denote that anindorsement made in favor of a person does not transfer to him the property in the billof exchange, but merely constitutes an

To gain unlawfully upon the lands, property, or authority of another ;as If one man presses upon the grounds of another too far, or if a tenant owe twoshillings rent-service, and the

In Spanish law. Emphyteusis. (

L. Fr. Inheritance.

In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certificationof vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation ; as distinguished fromthe “registration” of vessels employed

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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

In old English and Scotch law. Respite; delay; continuance of time; postponement Respiciendum est judieanti ne quid aut durius aut rewissius coustituatur quam causa deposcit; nee euim aut se- vcritatis aut demcntise

One who, having recovered a judgment against the debtor for his debt or claim, has also caused an execution to be issued thereon.

Equitable assets are all assets which are chargeable with the payment of debts or legacies in equity, and which do not fall under the description of legal assets. 1 Story, Eq. .Tor.

State, 11 Ark. 491; Atchison St. It. Co. v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.. 31 Kan. 661, 3 Pac. 284; Orr v. Quimby, 54 N. H. 613. 7. In the law of contracts,

A construction of a law, rule, or remedy which has regard more to the equities of the particular transaction or state of affaire involved than to the strict application of the rule

Contracts are also distinguished into executed and executory: executed, where nothing remains to be done by either party, and where the transaction is completed at the moment that the arrangement is made,

An entire contract is one the consideration of which is entire on both sides. The entire fulfillment of the promise by either is a condition precedent to the fulfillment of any part

Lay corporations are classified as “eleemosynary” and “civil;” the former being such as are created for the distribution of alms or for the administration of charities or for purposes falling under the

Lat. In the Roman law. Law; a law; the law. This term was often used as the synonym of jus, in the sense of a rule of civil conduct authoritatively prescribed for