DISTURBANCE OF COMMON
The doing any act by which the right of another to his commonis incommoded or diminished; as where one who has no right of common puts hiscattle into the land, or where
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The doing any act by which the right of another to his commonis incommoded or diminished; as where one who has no right of common puts hiscattle into the land, or where
The hindrance or obstruction of a patron from presenting his clerk to a benefice. 3 Bl. Comm. 242; 3Steph. Comm. 514.
Interruption of the peace, quiet, and good order of a neighborhood or community, particularly by unnecessary anddistracting noises. City of St. Charles v. Meyer, 58 Mo. 89; Yokum v. State (Tex. Cr.
If a bishop refuse or neglect to examine or admit a patron’s clerk,without reason assigned or notice given, he is styled a “disturber” by the law, and shaUnot have any title to
The words “ditch” aud “drain” have no technical or exact meaning. Theyboth may mean a hollow space in the ground, natural or artificial, where water iscollected or passes ofE. Goldthwait v. East
L. Fr. Say over. The form of awarding a respotideas ouster, in the l’ear Books, M. 6 Edw. III. 49.
In Scotch law. A technical term iu civil law, signifying the matter of chargeor ground of indictment against a person accused of crime. Talcing up dittay isobtaining informations and presentments of crime
Various, several, sundry; a collective term grouping a number of unspecifiedpersons, objects, or acts. Com. v. Butts, 124 Mass. 452; State v. Hodgson, 66Vt. 134, 28 Atl. 1089; Munro v. Alaire, 2
A turning aside or altering the natural course of a thing. The term ischiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prejudiceof a lower proprietor. Merritt v.
A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written inFrench in the reign of Edward III. as is supposed, and by some attributed to Fitzherbert.It was first printed in 1525, and again in
In criminal pleading. A plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, allegingthat he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately impaneledto try the collateral issue
Lat. With a different vtow, purpose, or design; in a differentview or point of view; by a different course or process. 1 W. Bl. 89; 4 Kent, Comm. 211, note.
To turn aside; to turn out of the way; to alter the course of things. Usuallyapplied to water-courses. Ang. Water- Courses,
In the practice of the English chancery division, “dives costs” are costs onthe ordinary scale, as opposed to the costs formerly allowed to a successful pauper suingor defending in forma pauperis, and
Equivalent to devest, (q. v.)
A fact by means of which a right is divested, terminated, orextinguished; as the right of a tenant terminates with the expiration of his lease, andthe right of a creditor is at
A fund to be divided. The share allotted to each of several persons entitledto share in a division of profits or property. Thus, dividend may denote a fund setapart by a corporation
One paid on the preferred stock of a corporation; a dividend paid to one classof shareholders in priority to that paid to another. Chaffee v. Railroad Co., 55 Vt 129;Taft v. Railroad
One paid in scrip, or in certificates of the ownership of a corresponding amount of capital stock of thecompanv thereafter to be issued. Bailey v. Railroad Co., 22 Wall. 604, 22 L.
A phrase used by stock brokers,meaning that a sale of corporate stock does not carry with it the seller’s right to receivehis proportionate share of a dividend already declared aud shortly payable.