TERM
a compact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract
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a compact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract
I. Frank tenement, or freehold. (1) The military tenures (abolished, except grand serjeanty, and reduced to free socage tenures) were: Knight service proper, or tenure in chivalry; grand serjeanty: cornage. (2) Free
I. Frankalmoigne. or free alms. II. Tenure by divine service. Tenure, in its general sense, Is a mode of holding or occupying. Thus, we speak of the tenure of an office, meaning
Tn Scotch law. Dower; a widow’s right of dower, or a right to a life- estate in a third part of the lands of which her husband died seised.
In Scotch law. A widow that possesses the third part of her husband’s land, as her legal jointure. 1 Kames, Eq. pref.
A term applied in the West Indies to a person one of whose parents was white aud the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
if it be for his interest to accept or reject the succession which has fallen to him. Civ. Code La. art. 1033.
Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old times.
This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event
Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by
L. Fr. To determine. See OYEB AND TEBMINEB.
Lat. Ends; bounds; limiting or terminating points.
In Spanish law. A common ; common land. Common because of vicinage. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,
A day given to a defendant. Spelman.
A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown.
Boundary; a limit, either of space or time. The phrases “terminus a quo” and “terminus ad quern” are used, respectively, to designate the starting point and terminating point of a private way.
In English ecclesiastical practice. A time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 36.
In English ecclesiastical practice. The time of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. Hallifax, CivU Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 38.
He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or life. But we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley
barren land.