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Lat. In the civil law. The master or owner of a merchant vessel. Calvin.
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Lat. In the civil law. The master or owner of a merchant vessel. Calvin.
In Hindu law. Composer, arranger, adjuster. The first officer of a province, and minister of the department of criminal justice.
Oxen or heifers. “Beeves” may include neat stock, but all neat stock are not beeves. Castello v. State, 36 Tex. 324; Ilubotter v. State, 32 Tex. 479.
amount of money expressed upon its face, with the right to sue therefor in his own name, may be transferred from one person to another without a formal assignment, but by mere
The son of a brother or sister. But the term, as used in wills and other documents, may include the children of half brothers and sisters and also grand- nephews, if such
Lat. In Roman law. In ancient times the nexxim seems to have been a species of formal contract, involving a loan of money, and attended with peculiar conse- quences, solemnized with the
In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of session, to give relief when none is possible at law. Ersk. Inst. 1, 3, 22; Bell. Nobiles magis plectuntur pecunia; plehes vero
In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed, viz.: (1) Beal,
The refusal of admission.
Noil debet actori licere quod reo non permittitur. A plaintiff ought not to be allowed what is not permitted to a defendant A rule of the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 41.
I was not present. A reporter’s note. T. Jones, 10.
Lat. Notwithstanding. Words anciently used in public and private instruments, intended to preclude, in advance, any interpretation contrary to certain declared objects or purposes. Bur- rill. A clause frequent in old English
Lat. Not his own master. The opposite of sui juris, (q. v.)
Unintelligible matter iu a written agreement or will.
Taken by a notary; performed by a notary in his official capacity; belonging to a notary and evidencing his official character, as, a notarial seal.
Novation is the substitution of a new debt or obligation for an existing one. Civ. Code Cal.
Lat Mere sufferance.
In English law. A name given to the statute 3 Geo. III. c. 16, because that act. in contravention of the maxim “Nullum tempus occurrit regi,” (no lapse of time liars the
Lat In the civil law. A son’s wife; a daughter-in-law. Calvin.
L. Lat. In old records. To take, seize, or distrain.