Legal Term Dictionary

Lat A notary, or tabellio. Calvin.

Lat A notary, or tabellio. Calvin. Less...

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell. -Tao free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell.

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell. -Tao free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell. Less...

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent Inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse, -Tacit More...

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent Inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse, -Tacit acceptance. In the civil law, a tacit acceptance of an inheritance takes place when some act is done by the heir which necessarily supposes his intention to accept and which be would hare no rigbt to do but in his capacity as heir. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 988.-Tacit hypothecation. In the civil law. a species of lien or mortgage which is created by operation of law without any express agreement of the parties. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 348. In admiralty law, this term is sometimes applied to a maritime lien, which is not, strictly speaking, an hypothecation in the Roman sense of the term, though it resembles it. ? See The Nestor, 1 Sumn. 73. 18 Fed. Cas. 9.-Tacit law. A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people without any legislative enactment 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 120.-Tacit 'mortgage. In the law of Louisiana. The law alone in certain cases gives to the creditor a mortgage on the property of his debtor, without it being requisite that the parties should stipulate it. This is called "legal mortgage." It is called also "tacit mortgage," because it is established by the law without the aid of any agreement Civ. Code La. art 3311.-Tacit relocation. In Scotch law. The tacit or implied renewal of a lease, inferred when the landlord, instead of warning a tenant to remove at the stipulated expiration of the lease, has allowed him to continue without making a new agreement. Bell, "Relocation."-Tacit tack. In Scotch law. An implied tack or lease; inferred from a tacksman's possessing peaceably after his tack is expired. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 2. p. 153. Tadta qnaedam habentnr pro expres-sis. 8 Coke, 4a Things unexpressed axe sometimes considered as expressed. Less...

Lat Silently; impliedly; tacitly.

Lat Silently; impliedly; tacitly. Less...

In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley A Whitley.

In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley A Whitley. Less...

v. To annex some junior lien to a flrst Hen, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING.

v. To annex some junior lien to a flrst Hen, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING. Less...

n. In Scotch law, A term corresponding to the English "lease," and denoting the same species of contract. -Tack duty. Kent reserved upon a lease.

n. In Scotch law, A term corresponding to the English "lease," and denoting the same species of contract. -Tack duty. Kent reserved upon a lease. Less...

The uniting securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser from claiming a title to redeem or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging the other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. ? 412. The More...

The uniting securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser from claiming a title to redeem or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging the other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. ? 412. The term is particularly applied to the action of a third mortgagee who, by buying the flrst lien and uniting it to his own, gets priority over the second mortgagee. The term is also applied to the process of making out title to land by adverse possession, when the present occupant and claimant has not been in possession for the full statutory period, but adds or "tacks'* to his own possession that of previous occupants under whom he claims. See J. B. Streeter Co. v. Fredrickson, 11 N. D. 300, 91 .H W. 092. Less...

In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; one to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153.

In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; one to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153. Less...

Lat In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16, ? 21. "A bishop may swear visis evangeliis, [looking at the Gospels,] and not tactis, and It Is good enough." Freem. 133.

Lat In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16, ? 21. "A bishop may swear visis evangeliis, [looking at the Gospels,] and not tactis, and It Is good enough." Freem. 133. Less...