Legal Term Dictionary

That part of the church where divine offices are performed; formerly applied to the choir or chancel, because it was the place appropriated to the bishop, priest, and other clergy, while the laity were confined to the body of the church. Jacob.

That part of the church where divine offices are performed; formerly applied to the choir or chancel, because it was the place appropriated to the bishop, priest, and other clergy, while the laity were confined to the body of the church. Jacob. Less...

That to which a right may be acquired by prescription.

That to which a right may be acquired by prescription. Less...

To assert a right or title to the enjoyment of a thing, on the ground, of having hitherto had the uninterrupted and immemorial enjoyment of It. To direct; define; mark out In modern statutes relating to matters of an administrative nature, such as procedure, registration, etc, it is usual to More...

To assert a right or title to the enjoyment of a thing, on the ground, of having hitherto had the uninterrupted and immemorial enjoyment of It. To direct; define; mark out In modern statutes relating to matters of an administrative nature, such as procedure, registration, etc, it is usual to indicate in general terms the nature of the proceedings to be adopted, and to leave the details to be prescribed or regulated by rules or orders to be made for. that purpose in pursuance of an authority contained in the act. Sweet And see Mansfield v. People, 104 111. 611, 45 N. E. 976; Ex parte Lothrop, 118 U. S. 113, 6 Sup. Ct 984, 30 L. Ed. 106; Field v. Marye, 83 Va. 882, 3 S. E. 707. Less...

A mode of acquiring title to incorporeal hereditaments grounded on the fact of immemorial or long-continued enjoyment. See Lucas v. Turnpike Co., 36 W. Va. 427,15 S. E. 182; Gayetty v. Bethune, 14 Mass. 52, 7 Am. Dec. 188; Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Hays, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 388, More...

A mode of acquiring title to incorporeal hereditaments grounded on the fact of immemorial or long-continued enjoyment. See Lucas v. Turnpike Co., 36 W. Va. 427,15 S. E. 182; Gayetty v. Bethune, 14 Mass. 52, 7 Am. Dec. 188; Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Hays, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 388, 47 Am. Rep. 291; Clarke v. Clarke, 133 CaL 667, 66 Pac. 10; Alhambra Addition Water Co. v. Richardson, 72 Cal. 598, 14 Pac. 379 ; Stevens v. Dennett, 51 N. H. 329. Title by prescription is the right which a possessor acquires to property by reason of the continuance of his possession for a period of time fixed by the laws. Code Ga. 1882, | 2678. "Prescription" is the term usually applied to incorporeal hereditaments, while "adverse possession" is applied to lands. Hindley v. Metropolitan El. R. Co., 42 Misc. Rep. 56V 85 N. Y. Supp. 561. In Louisiana, prescription is defined as a manner of acquiring the ownership of prop-; erty, or discharging debts, by the effect of time, and under the conditions regulated by law. Bach of these prescriptions bas its special and particular definition. The pre^ scription by which the ownership of property is acquired, is a right by which a mere possessor acquires the ownership of a thing, which he possesses by the continuance of his possession during the time fixed by law. The prescription by which debts are released, is a peremptory and perpetual bar to every species of action, real or personal, when the' creditor has been silent for a certain time without urging his claim. Civ. Code La. arts. 3457-3459. In this sense of the term it is very nearly equivalent to what is elsewhere expressed by "limitation of actions/' or rather, the "bar of the statute of limitations." "Prescription" and "custom" are frequently confounded in common parlance, arising perhaps1 from the fact that immemorial usage was essential to both of them; but strictly, they materially differ from one another, in that custom is properly a local impersonal usage, such as1 borough-Knglish, or postremogenitur^ which is annexed to a given esutte, while prescription Is simply personal, as that a certain man and his ancestors, or those whose estate he enjoys, haver immemorially exercised a right of pasture-common in a certain pariah. Again, prescription, has its o origin, in a grant, evidenced bv usage,, and is allowed on. account of its loss, either actual or supposed, and therefore only those things, can be prescribed for which could be raised by, a grant previously to 8 &>9 Vict c 106, 12;, but this principle does not necessarily hold in. the case of a custom. Wharton. The difference between "prescription,*' "custom," and "usage" is also thus stated: "Pre-, scription hath respect to a certain person who,j by intendment, may have continuance forever, as, for instance, he and all they whose estate, he hath in such a thing,-this js'a prescription;, while custom is local, and always applied to a certain place, and is common to all; while usage differs from both, for it may be either to persons or places." Jacob. -Corporations by preseriptlon. In English law. Those which have existed beyond the memory of man, and therefore are looked upon, in law to be well created, such as the city of London.-Prescription act. The statute 2 & 3 Wm, IV. c. 71, passed to limit the period of prescription in certain cases.-Prescription in a qne estate. A claim of prescription based on the immemorial enjoyment of the right claim-' ed. by the claimant and those former owners "whose estate" he has succeeded to and holds.* See Donnell v. Clark, 19 Me. 182-Time of preseriptlon. The length of time necessary to establish a right claimed by prescription or a title by prescription. Before the act of 2 A 3 Wm. IV. c 71, the possession required to constitute a prescription must have existed "time out of mind" or "beyond the memory of man." that is, before the reign of Richard I.; but tbe time of prescription, in certain cases, was much shortened by that act 2 Steph.' Comm. 85. Less...

The existence of a person In a particular place at a given time, particularly with reference to some act done there and then. Besides actual presence, the law recognizes constructive presence, which latter, may be predicated of a person who, though not on the very spot, was near enough to More...

The existence of a person In a particular place at a given time, particularly with reference to some act done there and then. Besides actual presence, the law recognizes constructive presence, which latter, may be predicated of a person who, though not on the very spot, was near enough to be accounted present by the law, or who was actively co-operating with another who; was actually present See Mitchell v. Com,, 33*Grat. (Va.) 868. Less...

v. In English ecclesiastical law. To offer a clerk to the bishop of the diocese, to be instituted. 1 Bl. Comm. 389. In criminal law. To And or represent judicially; used of the official act of a grand jury when they take notice of a crime or offense from their More...

v. In English ecclesiastical law. To offer a clerk to the bishop of the diocese, to be instituted. 1 Bl. Comm. 389. In criminal law. To And or represent judicially; used of the official act of a grand jury when they take notice of a crime or offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of Indictment laid before them. In the law of negotiable instruments. Primarily, to present is to tender or offer. Thus, to present a bill of exchange for acceptance or payment is to exhibit it to the drawee or acceptor, (or his authorized agent,) with an express or implied demand for acceptance or payment Byles, Bills, 183, 201. Less...

A gift; a gratuity; anything presented or given.

A gift; a gratuity; anything presented or given. Less...

adj. Now existing; at hand; relating to the present time; considered with reference to the present time. -Present enjoyment. The immediate or present possession and use of an estate or property, as distinguished from such as is postponed to a future time.-Present estate. An estate In immediate possession; one now More...

adj. Now existing; at hand; relating to the present time; considered with reference to the present time. -Present enjoyment. The immediate or present possession and use of an estate or property, as distinguished from such as is postponed to a future time.-Present estate. An estate In immediate possession; one now existing, or vested at the present time; as distinguished from a future estate, the enjoyment of which is postponed to a future time.-Present Interest. One which entitles the owner to the immediate possession of the property. Civ. Code Mont 1895, f 1110; Rev. Codes N. D. 1899, | 3288; Civ. Code S. D. 1903, f 204. -Present nse. One which has an immediate existence, and is at once operated upon by the statute of uses. Less...

In ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron or proprietor of a living in offering or presenting a clerk to the ordinary to be instituted in the benefice. -Presentation oi&ee. The office of the lord chancellor's official, the secretary of presentations, who conducts all correspondence having reference to the twelve More...

In ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron or proprietor of a living in offering or presenting a clerk to the ordinary to be instituted in the benefice. -Presentation oi&ee. The office of the lord chancellor's official, the secretary of presentations, who conducts all correspondence having reference to the twelve canonries and sis hundred and fifty livings in the gift of the lord chancellor, and draws and issues the fiats of appointment. Sweet. Less...

See ADVOWSON.

See ADVOWSON. Less...