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The person in whom is vested the ownership, dominion, or title of property; proprietor. Garver v. Hawkeye Ins. Co., 09 Iowa, 202, 28 N. W. 555; Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218,

Lat In Roman law. The legal relation existing between two certain persons whereby one (the creditor) is authorized to demand of the other (the debtor) a certain performance which has a money

Ratifying aud confirming.

To be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties.

Complete property, as opposed to feudal tenure. The transposition of the syllables of “odhal” makes it “allodh” and hence, according’ to Blackstone, arises the word “allod” or “allodial,” (q. v.) “Allodh” is

The court or Jurisdiction of which an official Is head.

In Spanish law. A good man; a substantial person. Las Partidas, pt 5, tit. 13, 1. 38. Omissio eorum quae tacite insunt nihil operator. The omission of those things which are tacitly

L. Fr. Accused. Du Cange.

Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of laud by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord.

In old England practice. That species of original writ, otherwise called a “praecipe,” which was framed in the alternative, commauding the defend OPUS 857 ORDER ant to do the thing required, or

In Spanish law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of its promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 03, note

In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast. A payment for a beast The payment or forfeiture of a beast. A penalty for taking away cattle. Spelman.

An Implied or presumptive agency, which exists where one, either intentionally or from want of ordinary care, induces another to believe that a third person is his agent, though he never in

In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A species of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the ‘land, and compels the rightful owner to

In early American land law, (particularly in Missouri,) a lot or parcel of land lying outside the corporate limits of a town or village but subject to its municipal jurisdiction or control.

A negotiable instrument or other evidence of debt is overdue when the day of its maturity is past aud it remains uupaid. Camp v. Scott 14 Vt. 387 ; La Due v.

The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right in a thing or claim. See .