PLIGHT
In old English law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; ex- tending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 2216; Cowell.
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In old English law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; ex- tending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 2216; Cowell.
Lat In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Bell. Plus exempla quam peccata nocent. Examples hurt more than crimes. Plus peccat author quam actor. The originator or instigator of
The form of government; civil constitution.
An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.
Producing for examination or taxation, as porrectiug a bill of costs, by a proctor.
Laid down, enacted, or prescribed. Express or affirmative. Direct, ab- solute, explicit. As to positive “Condition,” “Evidence,” “Fraud,” “Proof,” and “Servitude,” see those titles.
The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave- nues over which the mails shall be transported. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct. CI. 204. A “post
Lat. Possibility; power.
Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of “pactum.”
Possessing royal privileges. See COUNTY PALATINE.
Error in the computation of time.
The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.
See DECLARATION.
The rector of a church; one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. The appellation of “parson,” however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate
A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that
v. 1. In practice. To utter or pronounce; as when the court passes sentence upon a prisoner. Also to proceed; to be rendered or given; as when judgment is said to pass
Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney anciently commenced. Reg. Orig. 3056, 300.
In the civil law. The private and exclusive ownership or dominion of an individual. Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the exclusion of all others (or which are
v. To deliver personal property to another in pledge, or as security for a debt or sum borrowed.
A measure of two gallons; a dry measure.