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A judgment, decree, rule, Injunction, etc., when given or renderedwithout adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as toall the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or
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A judgment, decree, rule, Injunction, etc., when given or renderedwithout adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as toall the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or
At the pleasure of the judge.
Shared in respect to title, use, or enjoyment, without apportionmentor division into individual parts; held by several for the equal advantage, use. or enjoymentof all. See Ilewit v. Jewell, 59 Iowa, 37,
In double. Dumna in du- plo, double damages. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10,
In fee. Bract, fol. 207; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 04,
In the same terms. 9 East, 487.
In the same kind, class, or genus. A loan is returned “in kind” when notthe identical article, but one corresponding and equivalent to it, is given to the lender.See IN GENEUE.
Property owned by religious societies was said to be held in?mortua maim, or in mortmain, since religious men were civiliter mortui. 1 Bl. Comm.479; Tayl. Gloss.
In the worst part; on the worst side. Latch, 159, 160.
In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action
In terms of determination; exactly in point. 11 Coke, 406. In express or determinateterms. 1 Leon. 93.
In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.
Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in anaction at law, instead of being recited at large on the Issue-roll, were set out merely bytheir commencements, this
Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other.so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the one implies theabrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking
The initial letter of the word “Insti- tuta,” used by some civilians in citing theInstitutes of Justinian. Tayl. Civil Law, 24.
See INSANITY.
Lat. Things brought into the house for use by the tenant wereso called, and were liable to the jus liypothccce of Roman law, just as they are to thelandlord’s right of distress
The act of mixing the specie with an alloy below the standard of sterling. 1 Hale, P. C. 102.
An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. Long v. Converse, 91 U. S. 113, 23 LEd. 233; Ex parte Levy,
See DIRECTORY.