INCROACHMENT
An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.
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An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.
To impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime.
In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; intendedto establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 251, 252.
A person who is in present possession of an office; one who is legallyauthorized to discharge the duties of an office. State v. McCollister, 11 Ohio, 50; Statev. Blakemore, 104 Mo. 340,
Any right to, or interest in, land which may subsist in third persons,to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with thepassing of the fee. Fitch
In tbe civil law. A robber; a spoiler or plunderer. Expilutorcs auntatrociores fures. Dig. 47, 18, 1, 1.
Cessation; termination from mere lapse of time; as the expiration of alease, or statute, and the like. Marshall v. Rugg, 6 Wyo. 270, 45 Pac. 486, 33 L. It. A.679; Rowinan v.
In Scotch law and practice. Expiration of the period withinwhich an adjudication may be redeemed, by paying the debt in the decree ofadjudication. Bell.
In old records. The rents and profits of an estate.
In the civil law. The fourth pleading; equivalent to the surrejoinder of the common law. Calvin.
In mining law. The examination and investigation of land supposedto contain valuable minerals, by drilling, boring, sinking shafts, driving tunnels, andother means, for the purpose of discovering the presence of ore and
A sudden and rapid combustion, causing violent expansion of the air,and accompanied by a report. The word “explosion” is variously used in ordinary speech, and is not one that admits of exact
v. To send, take, or carry an article of trade or commerce out of the country.To transport merchandise from one country to another In the course of trade. Tocarry out or convey
The act of sending or carrying goods and merchandise from onecountry to another.
v. To show publicly; to display ; to offer to the public view; as. to “expose”goods to sale, to “expose” a tariff or schedule of rates, to “expose” the person. Boyntonv. Page,
Explanation; interpretation.
One the office of which is to declare what shall be taken tobe the true meaning and intent of a statute previously enacted. Black, Const. Law, (3ded.) 89. And see Lindsay v.
The act or state of exposing or being exposed. See EXPOSE.
Made known distinctly and explicitly, and not left to inference or implication.Declared in terms; set forth in words. Manifested by direct and appropriatelanguage, as distinguished from that which is inferred from conduct.
In the civil law. The species of novation by which a creditor acceptsa new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latter being released. 1 Bouv.Inst. no. 802.