"Estate Tail" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

Passage upwards; the trans-mission of an estate from the ancestor to tbe heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent. …

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a …

Profits, or proceeds. This word seems to have been construed only in reference to wills, aud in them it means …

loot on delivery. See C. O. D.—Collector. one authorized to receive taxes or oth-er impositions; as “collector of taxes." A …

Lat A Join-ing together or contribution of goods into a common fund. This occurs where a portion of money, advanced …

Lat I have granted. At common law, ln a feoffment or estate of ln-heritance, this word does not imply a …

Concerning gifts, (or more folly, de donis conditionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The. name of a celebrated English statute, passed in …

A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of a certain sum of money; intended for the legatee at all events, with …

This term, used ln a will ln re-lation to the management and distribution of property, has been Interpreted by the …

A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. …

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. …

(Lat He has chosen.) This is the name, in Engllsh practice, of a writ of execution first given by the …

To invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. See Feoffment

1. Tbe interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property. 1 Prest. Est. 20. …

See Elegit

An estate whereby the creditor, under the custom of London, retained the possession of all his debtor’s lands until his …

A species of es-tate less than freehold, where a man has an lnterest in lands and tenements, and a possesslon …

An estate in lands held by two or more persons, wlth interests accruing nnder dlfferent titles; or accruing under the …

An estate which several persons hold as one heir, whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of …