DUTY
In its use in Jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus,wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon
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In its use in Jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus,wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon
(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the ancientRomans, given to any magistrates elected in pairs to fill any office, or perform anyfunction. Brande.Duumviri municipalcs were two annual magistrates
In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army.Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr.In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1
In genealogical tables, a common abbreviation for “died without Issue.”
To have an abode; to Inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed.Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontownv. Shrewsbury, 49
The house In which a man lives with his family; a residence ;the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence.In conveyancing. Includes all
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At .common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure ofissue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker.But this rule has been changed
An officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.
Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.
In medical jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain the act of sexual intercourse except with great difficulty and pain.
.A state of the stomach In which its functions are disturbed, without thepresence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minorimportance. Dungl. Med. Diet
In Scotch law. A bankrupt.
In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved
From the opposite; on the contrary.
Conversely. On the other hand; on the contrary. Equivalent to e contra.
Out of mere grace or favor.
An abbreviation of exempli gratia. For the sake of an example.
Sax. The water or river; also the mouth of a river on the shore between highand low water-mark.Ea est accipienda interpretatio, quae vitio caret. That interpretation is to be received[or adopted] which
With that intent. Held not to make a condition, but a confidence and trust. Dyer, 13S6.Ea quae, commendandi causa, in ven- ditionibus dicuntur, si palam appareant,venditorem non obligant. Those things which are