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Search Results for "" A the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q. v.) and also in the marks of schedules or papers, as schedule... more A MENSA ET THORO from bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, is rather a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage. It may... more A PRENDRE French, to take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a prendre. Ham. N. P. 184, or a right to take something out of the soil. 5 Ad. &... more A QUO A Latin phrases which signifies from which, example, in the computation of time, the day a quo is not to be counted, but the day ad quem is always... more A RENDRE French, to render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre, under this term are comprehended rents and services. Ham N. P. 192. ... more A VINCULO MATRIMONII from the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one... more AB INITIO from the beginning. 2. When a man enters upon lands or into the house of another by authority of law, and afterwards... more AB INTESTAT An heir, ab intestat, is one on whom the law casts the inheritance or estate of a person who dies intestate. ... more AB IRATO civil law. A Latin phrase, which signifies by a man in anger. It is applied to bequests or gifts, which a man makes adverse to the interest of his... more ABANDONMENT lights. The relinquishment of a right, the giving up of something to which we are entitled. 2. - Legal rights, when once vested, must... more ABANDONMENT In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents have contracted relative to the concern of their commission but... more ABANDONMENT contracts. In the French law, the act by which a debtor surrenders his property for the benefit of his creditors. Merl. Rep. mot Abandonment. ... more ABANDONMENT contracts. In insurances the act by which the insured relinquishes to the assurer all the property to the thing insured. 2.- No particular form is required for an abandonment, nor... more ABANDONMENT for torts, a term used in the civil law. By the Roman law, when the master was sued for the tort of his slave, or the... more ABANDONMENT malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation. 2. -... more ABATEMENT pleading, is the overthrow of an action in consequence of some error committed in bringing or conducting it when the plaintiff is not forever barred from bringing another action.... more ABATEMENT merc. law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged See Act of Congress, March 2,... more ABATEMENT chancery practice, is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. It differs from an abatement at law in... more ABATEMENT contracts, is a reduction made by the creditor, for the prompt payment of a debt due by the payor or debtor. Wesk. on Ins. 7. ... more ABATEMENT OF A FREEHOLD The entry of a stranger after the death of the ancestor, and before the heir or devisee takes possession, by which the rightful possession of the heir or... more 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 next

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