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  • ACQUEST
    An estate acquired newly, or by purchase. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 56.
  • ACQUETS
    In the civil law. Property which has been acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by succession. Immovable property which has been acquired otherwise than by succession. Merl. Repert. Profits or gains of property, as between husband and wife. Civil Code La. s 2369; Comp. Laws N. M. s 2030.
  • ACQUIESCE
    To give an implied consent to a transaction, to the accrual of a right, or to any act, by one's mere silence, or without express assent or acknowledgment Matthews v. Murchison (C. C.) 17 Fed. 760; .Cass County v. Plotner, 149 Ind. 116, 48 N. E. 635; Scott v. Jackson, More...
  • ACQUIESCENCE
    Acquiescence is where a person who knows that he is entitled to impeach a transaction or enforce a right neglects to do so for such a length of time that, under the circumstances of the case, the other party may fairly infer that he has waived or abandoned his right. More...
  • ACQUIETANDES PLEGIIS
    A writ of justices, formerly lying for the surety against a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied. Reg. Writs, 158 ; Cowell; Blount.
  • ACQUIRE
    In the law of contracts and of descents; to become the owner of property ; to make property one's own. Wulzen v. San Francisco, 101 Cal 15, 35 Pac. 353, 40 Am. St Rep. 17.
  • ACQUIRED
    Coming to an intestate in any other way than by gift, devise, or descent from a parent or the ancestor of a parent. In re Miller's Will, 2 Lea (Tenn.) 54. Acquired rights. Those which a man does not naturally enjoy, but which are owing to his own procurement, as More...
  • ACQUISITION
    The act of becoming the owner of certain property; the act by which one acquires or procures the property in anything. Used also of the thing acquired. Original acquisition is where the title to the thing accrues through occupancy or accession, (q. v.,) or by the creative labor of the More...
  • ACQUIT
    To release, absolve, or discharge one from an obligation or a liability; or to legally certify the Innocence of one charged with crime. Dolloway v. Turrill, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 383, 400.
  • ACQUIT A CAUTION
    In French law. Certain goods pay higher export duties when exported to a foreign country than when they are destined for another French port. In order to prevent fraud, the administration compels the shipper of goods sent from one French port to another to give security that such goods shall More...
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