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A “condition” Is to be distinguished from a limitation, In that I he latter may be to or for the benefit of a stranger, who may then take advantage of its determination,

Lat. In civil and old English law. To make or build a house; to erect a building. Dig. 45, 1, 75, 7.

A contract under seal ; a specialty; as distinguished from one merely oral or in writing not sealed. But in. common usage this term is often used to denote an express or

Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclusion, a,

A contract subordinate to another contract, made or intended to be made between the contracting parties, on one part, or some of them, and a stranger. 1 II. Bl. 37, 45. Where

Equity is the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its generality, is deficient Plowd. 375.

The name given to that class of conveyances which presuppose some other conveyance precedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer the interest granted by such original conveyance.

The special allowance of a writ (particularly a writ of error) which is required in some particular cases.

The conviction of a person, (usually for a minor misdemeanor,) as the result of his trial before a magistrate or court, without the intervention of a jury, which is authorized by statute

In English practice. In taxing the costs of an action as between party and party, the taxing officer is, in certain cases, empowered to make special allowances; i. e., to allow the

Corporations, the members of which are entirely spiritual persons, and incorporated as such, for the furtherance of religion and perpetuating the rights of the church.

An action of assumpsit is so called where the declaration sets out the precise language or effect of a special contract, which forms the ground of action; as distinguished from a general

The name given, in some states, to the upper house or branch of the council of a city.

In practice. Persons who undertake jointly and severally in behalf of a defendant arrested on mesne process in a civil action that, if he be condemned in the action, he shall pay

Where a plaintiff has several distinct causes of action, he is allowed to pursue them cumulatively in the same action, subject to certain rules which the law pre- scribos. Wharton.

Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor.

As opposed to the common counts, in pleading, a special count is a statement of the actual facts of the particular case, or a count in which the plaintiff’s claim is set

A deputy sheriff, appointed at the request of a party to a suit, for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.

In English law. The ecclesiastical courts, or courts Christian. See 3 Bl. Comm. 01

One born of parents before marriage, the parents afterwards intermarrying. By the civil and Scotch law he would be then legitimated.