Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. The plaintiff's count or declaration.

In old English law. The plaintiff's count or declaration. Less...

The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French, and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, the understanding or construction of law. Cowell.

The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French, and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, the understanding or construction of law. Cowell. Less...

In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it. In strict usage, the entering is preliminary to the taking possession but in common parlance the entry is now merged in the taking possession. See ENTRY. In practice. To place anything before More...

In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it. In strict usage, the entering is preliminary to the taking possession but in common parlance the entry is now merged in the taking possession. See ENTRY. In practice. To place anything before a court, or upon or among the records, in a formal and regular manner, and usually in writing; as to "enter an appearance," to "enter a judgment". In this sense the word is nearly equivalent to setting down formally in writing, in either a full or abridged form. -Entering judgments. The formal entry of the judgment on the rolls of the court which is necessary before bringing an appeal or an action on the judgment. Blatchford v. Newberry, 100 111. 491; Winstead v. Evans (Tex. Civ. App.) 33 S. W. 680; Coe v. Erb. 59 Ohio St. 259. 52 N. E. 640, 69 Am. St Rep. 764.-Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry tbe amount of the bills directly to his credit but to "enter them short" as it is called, i. e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If tbe banker becomes, bankrupt, the property in bills entered short does not pass to his assignees, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have upon them. Wharton. Less...

L. Fr. A party challenging (claiming) goods; he who has placed them in the hands of a third person. Kelham.

L. Fr. A party challenging (claiming) goods; he who has placed them in the hands of a third person. Kelham. Less...

This word is synonymous with "board," and includes the ordinary necessaries of life. See Scatter-good v. Waterman, 2 Miles (Pa.) 323; Lasar v. Johnson, 125 Cal. 549, 58 Pac 161; In re Breslin, 45 Hun, 213.

This word is synonymous with "board," and includes the ordinary necessaries of life. See Scatter-good v. Waterman, 2 Miles (Pa.) 323; Lasar v. Johnson, 125 Cal. 549, 58 Pac 161; In re Breslin, 45 Hun, 213. Less...

To solicit persuade, or procure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich; 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State, 71 Neb. 651, 99 N. W. 543.

To solicit persuade, or procure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich; 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State, 71 Neb. 651, 99 N. W. 543. Less...

Whole; without division, separation, or diminution. -Entire contract. See CONTRACT.-Entire day. This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the More...

Whole; without division, separation, or diminution. -Entire contract. See CONTRACT.-Entire day. This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o'clock at night. Robertson v. State, 48 Ala. 325. In a statute requiring the closing, of all liquor saloons during "the entire day of any election," etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-four hours, commencing and terminating at midnight. Haines v. State, 7 Tex. App. 30.-Entire interest. The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of land sells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, this vests in the purchaser only a quitclaim of his interest in the improvements. McLeroy Duckworth, 13 La. Ann. 410.-Entire tenancy. A sole possession by one person, called "severalty," which is contrary to several tenancy, where a joint or common possession is in one or more. -Entire use, benefit, etc. These words in the habendum of a trust-deed for the benefit of a married woman are equivalent to the words "sole use," or "sole and separate use," and consequently her husband takes nothing under such deed. Heathman v. Hall, 38 N. C. 414. Less...

The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety. 2 Kent, Comm. 132 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 362. Parceners, on the other hand, have not an entirety of More...

The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety. 2 Kent, Comm. 132 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 362. Parceners, on the other hand, have not an entirety of interest, but each is properly entitled to the whole of a distinct moiety. 2 Bl. Comm. 188. The word is also used to designate that which the law considers as one whole, and not capable of being divided into parts. Thus, a judgment, it is held, is an entirety, and, if void as to one of the two defendants, cannot be valid as to the other. So, if a contract is an entirety, no part of the consideration is due until the whole has been performed. Less...

In its usual sense, to entitle is to give a right or title. Therefore a person is said to be entitled to property when he has a right to it. Com. v. Moorhead, 7 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 516 ; Thompson v. Thompson, 107 Ala. 163, 1$ South. 247. In More...

In its usual sense, to entitle is to give a right or title. Therefore a person is said to be entitled to property when he has a right to it. Com. v. Moorhead, 7 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 516 ; Thompson v. Thompson, 107 Ala. 163, 1$ South. 247. In ecclesiastical law. To entitle is to give a title or ordination as a minister. Less...

L. Fr. An intruder or interloper. Britt c 114.

L. Fr. An intruder or interloper. Britt c 114. Less...