Legal Term Dictionary

Lat. in the civil and old European law. An aunt.

Lat. in the civil and old European law. An aunt. Less...

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft. The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 25.

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft. The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 25. Less...

The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contradistinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16, The word "estate" in general is applicable to anything of which riches or fortune may consist. The word is likewise relative to the word "things," which is the second object of jurisprudence, the More...

The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contradistinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16, The word "estate" in general is applicable to anything of which riches or fortune may consist. The word is likewise relative to the word "things," which is the second object of jurisprudence, the rules of which are applicable to persons; things, and actions. Civ. Code La. art. 448. Such permanent objects, not being persons, as are sensible, or perceptible through the senses. Aust. Jur. fi 452; A 'thing" is the object of a right; i.e, whatever is treated by the law as the object over which one person exercises a right, and with reference to which another person lies under a duty. Holl. Jur. 83., Things are the subjects of dominion or property, as distinguished from persons. They are distributed into three kinds: (1) Things real or Immovable, comprehending lands, tenements and hereditaments; (2) things personal or movable, comprehending goods and chattels; and (3) things mixed, partaking of the characteristics of the two former, as a title-deed, a term for years. The civil law divided things into corporeal (tangipossunt) and incorporeal (tangi non possunt.) Wharton. ------Things in action. A thing in action is a right to recover money or other personal property by a judicial proceeding. Civ. Code Cal. e--------- Things personal consist of goods, money, and all other movables, and of such rights and profits as relate to movables. 1 Steph. Comm. 156. See People v. Holbrook. 33 Johns. (N. y.).90; U. S. v. Moulton, 27 Fed. Cas. 11; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 546.- Things real. Such things as are permanent fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. This definition has been objected to as not embracing incorporeal rights. , Mr. Stephen idefines things real to "consist of things substantial and immovable, and of the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of these." 1 Steph. Comm. 156. Things real are Otherwise described to consist of lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Bates v. Spar-rell, 10 Mass. 324; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 546. Things accessory are of the nature of the principal. Pinch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 25. Things are construed according 'to that which was the cause thereof; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 4. Things are dissolved as they be contracted. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 7. Things grounded upon an ill and void beginning cannot have a good perfection. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 8. Things in action, entry, or re-entry cannot be granted over. Yan Rensselaer v. Ball, 19 N. Y. 100, 103. Things incident cannot be severed; Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 1, n. 12. Things incident pass by the grant of the principal. Seymour v. Canandaigua A N. F. R. Co., 25 Barb. (N. Y.) 284, 310. ' Things incident shall pass by the grant of the principal, but not the principal by the grant of the incident. Co:.Litt. 152a, 151b; Broom. Max. 433. Less...

In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell. Less...

In a special finding by a jury this word is equivalent to "believe," and expresses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positlveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. 424.

In a special finding by a jury this word is equivalent to "believe," and expresses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positlveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. 424. Less...

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde". and his host was answerable for him if he committed any offense. The first night, forman-night, or uncouth, (unknown,) he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, More...

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde". and his host was answerable for him if he committed any offense. The first night, forman-night, or uncouth, (unknown,) he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night .a guest; and the third night, an awn-hinde, a domestic. Bract. 1. 3. Less...

Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party, to the affair nor immediately concerned in it. ------ Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an, execution is levied on property which does not belong to the More...

Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party, to the affair nor immediately concerned in it. ------ Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an, execution is levied on property which does not belong to the defendant, but to an outsider, the remedy of the owner is by an intervention called a ''third opposition," in which, on his giving , security, an injunction or prohibition may be granted to stop the sale. See New Orleans v. Louisiana Const. Co., 129 U. S. 45; 9 Sup. Ct. 223, 32 L. Ed. 607.-Third parties. See PARTY.-Third penny. A portion (one-third) of the amount of all fines and other profits of the county court, which was reserved for the earl, in the early days when the jurisdiction of those courts, was extensive, the rer mainder going to the king.-Third possessor. In Louisiana, a person who buys mortgaged property, but without assuming the payment ot the mortgage. Thompson v. Levy, 50 La. Ann. 751, 23 South. 913. Less...

An under-constable. Cowell.

An under-constable. Cowell. Less...

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, witH-in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, witH-in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount. Less...

The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedents personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chilr dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614.

The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedents personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chilr dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614. Less...