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A wife, by affinity, or by blood, like a parent, sibling, or offspring is a deceased’s nearest relative.
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A wife, by affinity, or by blood, like a parent, sibling, or offspring is a deceased’s nearest relative.
Nitrous acid ester or salt containing the nitrite (NO2) ion. Certain bacteria in the soil convert nitrites into nitrates as plant nutrients. They are used mainly as meat coloring agents and food
To prevent any non-written change in its terms, this type of provision exists in an agreement.
Official names, terms, or specialized vocabulary as a set or system, used in a specific area, discipline, or subject, like accounting, engineering, finance, or law. As an online dictionary, for example, this
A loan no longer receiving regular payments.
A term sometimes applied to the aggregate of the property owned directly by a nation. Civ. Code La. I’.tOO. art. 4NO.
That degree of diligence which a person placed in a particularsituation must exercise in order to entitle him to the protection of the law in respect torights or claims growing out of
Lat. In the civil law. 1’he interruption of a usucaption, by some act on the part of the real owner. Calvin.
A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of pay- ment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account- book containing the acquittances or
Ill old records. That may lie plowed or manured; tillable. Cowell; Blount.
To force poison into the slomach of another; to compel another by threats of violence to swallow poison; to furnish poison to another for the purpose and with the intention that the
In English law. That kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within tlie king’s dominions, immediately upon their birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and cannot be divested by
A notice given bv defendant to a plaintiff that he appears in the action in person or by attorney.
Any formation or product of nature (as opposed to structures or erections made by man) which may serve to define and fix one or more of the lines inclosing an estate or
A bastard ; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have all the rights of “natural” children. the word “natural” was used in the
An abbreviation for “New Reports ;” also for “not reported,” and for “nonresident.”
Those seas which run between two coasts not far apart The term is sometimes applied to the English channel. Wharton.
In Spanish law. The state of a natural-born subject. White, New Ifecop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 2.
To conduct vessels through navigable waters; to use the waters as a means of communication. Ryan v. Hook, 34 Hun (N. Y.) 185.
L. Fr. In pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account-render, by which the defendant denies that he ever was receiver of the plaintiff. 12 Vin. Abr. 183.