LIQUIDATION
The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determinate that which before was uncertain or unascertained. As applied to a company, (or sometimes to the affairs of an individual,)
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The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determinate that which before was uncertain or unascertained. As applied to a company, (or sometimes to the affairs of an individual,)
To dispute or contend In form of law; to carry on a suit.
1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king’s tenants in capite or tenants by knight’s service. 2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward
A place used temporarily as a prison.
An unlawful game mentioned iu St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.
In old English law. A liberty or privilege to take amends for lying with a bondwoman without license.
Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss.Lucrum facere ex pupilli tutela tutor non debet. A guardian ought not to make money out of the
A person who, by his presence and silence at a transaction which affects his interests, may be fairly supposed to acquiesce in it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is
In old records. Watery land.
Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked
A large body of water, contained iu a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich.
Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate in laud.
In Spanish law. A commutation in money, paid by the nobles and high officers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers tiiey might be required to furnish in war. Tre- vino v.
An under-ground survey.
Lat In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract, fol. 126.
Lat. Praise be to God. An old heading to bills of exchange.
The counsel on either side of a litigated action who is chargcd with the prin- cipal management and direction of the party’s case, as distinguished from his juniors or subordinates, is said
A debauched person. Cowell.
The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220
In Scotch law. The children’s share in the father’s movables.