Legal Term Dictionary

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...

Lat. Having personally touched" "the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105. The description of a corporal oath.

Lat. Having personally touched" "the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105. The description of a corporal oath. Less...

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed, as a fee or estate in fee, to a certain order of succession, or to certain heirs.

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed, as a fee or estate in fee, to a certain order of succession, or to certain heirs. Less...

An estate of inheritance, which, instead of descending to heirs generally, goes to the heirs of the donee's body, which means his lawful issue, his children, and through them to his grandchildren in a direct line, so long as his posterity endures in a regular order and course of descent, More...

An estate of inheritance, which, instead of descending to heirs generally, goes to the heirs of the donee's body, which means his lawful issue, his children, and through them to his grandchildren in a direct line, so long as his posterity endures in a regular order and course of descent, and upon the death of the first owner without issue, the estate determines. 1 Washb. Real Prop. *72. An estate tail is a freehold of inheritance, limited to a person and the heirs of his body, general or special, male or female, and is the creature of the statute de Bonis. The estate, provided the entail be not barred, reverts to the donor or reversioner, if the donee die without leaving descendants answering to the condition annexed to the estate upon its creation, unless there be a limitation over to a third person on default of such descendants, when it vests in such third person or remainder-man. Wharton. -Several tail. An entail severally to two; as if land is given to two men and their wives, and to the heirs of their bodies begotten ; here the donees have a joint estate for their two lives, and yet they have a several inheritance, because the issue of the one shall have his taoi-ety, and the issue of the other the other moiety. Cowell.-Tail after possibility of Issne extinct. A species of estate tail which arises where one is tenant in special tail, and a person from whose body the issue was to spring dies without issue, or, having left issue, that issue becomes extinct. In either .of these cases the surviving tenant in special tail becomes "tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct." 2 Bl. Comm. 124.-Tail female. When lands are given to a person and the female heirs of his or her body, this is called an "estate tail female," and the male heirs are not capable of inheriting it.-TaIl general. An estate in tail granted to one "and the heirs of his body begotten," which is called "tail general" because, how often soever such donee in tail be married, his issue in general by all and every such marriage is, In successive order, capable of inheriting the estate tail per formam doni. 2 Bl. Comm. 113. This is where an estate is limited to a man and the heirs of his body, without any restriction at aU; or, according to some authorities, with no other restriction than that in relation to sex. Thus, tail male general is the same thing as tail male; the word "general," In such case, implying that there is no other restriction npon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the male line. So an estate in tail female general is an estate in tail female. The word "general," in the phrase, expresses a purely negative idea, and may denote the absence of any restriction, or the absence of some given restriction which is tacitly understood. Mozley & Whitley.-Tall male. When lands are given to a person and the male heirs of his or her body, this is called an "estate tail male." and the female heirs are not capable of inheriting it.-Tail special. An estate in tail where the succession is restricted to certain heirs of the donee's body, and does not go to all of them in general; e. jr., where lands and tenements are given to a man and "the heirs of his body on Mary, his now wife, to be begotten;" here no issue can inherit but such special issue as is engendered between those two, not such as the husband may have by another wife, and therefore it is called "special tail." 2 Bl. Comm. 113. It is defined by Cowell as the limitation of lands and tenements to a man and his wife and the heirs of their two bodies. But the phrase need not be thus restricted. Tail special, in its largest sense, is where the gift is restrained to certain heirs of the donor's body, and does not go to all of them in general. Mozley A Whitley. Less...