A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical Terms of the Canon and Civil Laws : Also Containing a Full Collection of Latin Maxims ...F.D. Linn & Company, 1888 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action appointed bail bankruptcy Barb Barn Bench Reports bill bill of lading called chattels Chit chose in action civil law common law Conn contract conveyance corporation Court of Chancery Court of Session covenant Cranch U. S. creditors criminal crown debt debtor deed defendant defined ecclesiastical England English law equity Exchequer execution executor fraud freehold grant Halst Harr heirs Hill N. Y. House of Lords indictment Inst issue Johns judge judgment jurisdiction jury justice King's Bench land lease liable Litt lord manor Mass ment mortgage offence officer old English old English law Orig owner Paige N. Y. party payment person Phillim plaintiff plea pleading practice proceedings Roman law rule Scotch law Serg sheriff Stat statute Steph tenant term tion trust Vict Wend Wharton Wheel word writ
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 323 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
עמוד 236 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has any superintendence entrusted to him whilst in the exercise of such superintendence...
עמוד 270 - ... shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
עמוד 345 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
עמוד 514 - A right of re-entry or forfeiture under any proviso or stipulation in a lease, for a breach of any covenant or condition in the lease, shall not be enforceable, by action or otherwise, unless and until the lessor serves on the lessee a notice specifying the particular breach complained of...
עמוד 214 - For every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbor's; and that either by a visible and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge, or by an ideal, invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field.
עמוד 341 - Demands in the nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by reason of a contract, promise, or breach of trust, shall not be provable in bankruptcy.
עמוד 241 - Association, to contribute to the assets of the Company in the event of its being wound up.
עמוד 448 - Next follows a general provision, in section 14, that " whenever any book or other document is of such a public nature as to be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper custody, and no statute exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extract therefrom shall be admissible...
עמוד 268 - Exchequer that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law) four things are to be discerned and considered: (1) What was the common law before the making of the act ; (2) what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; (3) what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ; (4) the true reason of the remedy.