"Fide-Commissary" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and, before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, …

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally …

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century …

The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westmiuster, an ancient palace of the monarchs …

when this phrase is used in leases, conveyances, and other like deeds, or in agreements expressed in simple writing, it …

Raising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the "erection” of wooden buildings, this term does not Include …

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

Itt American law. A process by which the effects of a debtor are attached in the hands of a third …

1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 …

The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of …

In the cause, as distlnguisb-ed from in initialibus, (q. v.) A term in Scotch practice. 1 Brown, Ch. 252

In English law. Cer-taln duties which must be paid by thosu who clalm to exercise the elective franchlse within certain …

A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being …

Any member of the English house of commons who wishes to propose any question, or to “move the house," as …

In the English courts, barristers at law have been divided lnto two classes, viz., king’s counsel, who are admit-ted within …

1. The sum of money which the obligor of a bond undertakes to pay by way of penalty, in tbe …

A term used ln crlm-inal law, and denotlng (ln cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into …

After marriage. Thus, an agreement entered into by a father after the marriage of his daughter, by which he engages …

Latin: Wherefore he broke the close. That species of the action of trespass which has for its object the recovery …

In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or “readings” at certain periods …