Legal Term Dictionary

A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing from one hundred to one hundred and forty gallons. Webster.

A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing from one hundred to one hundred and forty gallons. Webster. Less...

v. 1. To possess In virtue of a lawful title; as In the expression, common in grants, "to have and to hold," or in that applied to notes, "the owner and holder." Thompson v. Sandford, 13 Ga. 241; Bank of Michigan v. Nlles, 1 Doug. (Mich.) 407, 41 Am. Dec. More...

v. 1. To possess In virtue of a lawful title; as In the expression, common in grants, "to have and to hold," or in that applied to notes, "the owner and holder." Thompson v. Sandford, 13 Ga. 241; Bank of Michigan v. Nlles, 1 Doug. (Mich.) 407, 41 Am. Dec. 575; Stansbury v. Hubner, 73 Md. 228, 20 Atl. 904, 11 L. R. A. 204, 25 Am. St Rep. 584. 2. To be the grantee or tenant of another; to take or have an estate from another. Properly, to have an estate on condition of paying rent, or performing service. 3. To adjudge or decide, spoken of a court, particularly to declare the conclusion of law reached by the court as to the legal effect of the facts disclosed. 4. To maintain or sustain; to be under the necessity or duty of sustaining or proving; as when it is said that a party "holds the affirmative" or negative of an issue in a cause. 5. To bind or obligate; to restrain or constrain; to keep in custody or under an obligation; as in the phrases "hold to bail," "hold for court," "held and firmly bound," etc. 6. To administer; to conduct or preside at; to convoke, open, and direct the operations of; as to hold a court, hold pleas, eta Smith v. People, 47 N. Y. 334. 7. To prosecute; to direct and bring about officially; to conduct according to law; as to hold an election. 8. To possess; to occupy; to be in possession and administration of; as to hold office. -Hold over. To hold possession after the expiration of a term or lease. To retain possession of property leased, after the end of the term. To continue in possession of an office and continue to exercise its functions, after the end of the officer's lawful term. State v. Simon, 20 Or. 365, 26 Pac. 174; Frost v. Akron Iron Co., 1 App. Div. 449, 37 N. Y. Supp. 874.-Hold pleas. To hear or try causes. 3 Bl. Comm. 35. 298. Less...

n. In old law. Tenure. A word constantly occurring in conjunction with others, as freehold, leasehold, copyhold, etc., hut rarely met with in the separate form.

n. In old law. Tenure. A word constantly occurring in conjunction with others, as freehold, leasehold, copyhold, etc., hut rarely met with in the separate form. Less...

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is the person who has legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of transferring it, by indorsement or delivery, and who is entitled to receive payment of the instrument from the party or parties liable More...

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is the person who has legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of transferring it, by indorsement or delivery, and who is entitled to receive payment of the instrument from the party or parties liable to meet it. Bowling v. Harrison, 6 How. 258, 12 L. Ed. 425; Crocker-Wool worth Nat. Bank v. Nevada Bank, 139 Cal. 564, 73 Pac. 456, 63 L. R. A. 245, 96 Am. St. Rep. 169; Rice v. Hogan, 8 Dana (Ky.) 135; Rev. Laws Mass. 1902, p. 653, f 207. -Holder in due course, in English law, is "a holder who has taken a bill of exchange check or note complete and regular on the face of it under the following conditions, namely: (a) That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact, (b) That he took the bill (check or note) in good faith and for value, and that at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any defect in tbe title of the person who negotiated it." Bills of Exchange Act. 1882. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 61, f 20.) And see Sutherland v. Mead, 80 App. Div. 103, 80 N. Y. Supp. 504 Less...

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman.

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman. Less...

In English law. A piece of land held under a lease or similar tenancy for agricultural, pastoral, or similar purposes. In Scotch law. The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to the vassal. Bell. -Holding over. See HOLD, v.-Holding np the hand. In criminal practice. A More...

In English law. A piece of land held under a lease or similar tenancy for agricultural, pastoral, or similar purposes. In Scotch law. The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to the vassal. Bell. -Holding over. See HOLD, v.-Holding np the hand. In criminal practice. A formality observed in the arraignment of prisoners. Held to be not absolutely necessary. 1 W. Bl. 3, 4. Less...

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usual operations of business are suspended and the courts closed, and, generally, no legal process is served. -Legal holiday. A day designated by law More...

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usual operations of business are suspended and the courts closed, and, generally, no legal process is served. -Legal holiday. A day designated by law as exempt from judicial proceedings, service of process, demand and protest of commercial paper, etc.-Publio holiday. A legal holiday. Less...

An island in a river or the sea. Spelman. Plain grassy ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground intersected with streams. Spelman.

An island in a river or the sea. Spelman. Plain grassy ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground intersected with streams. Spelman. Less...

In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particularly a will) wholly in the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so written by his own hand.

In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particularly a will) wholly in the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so written by his own hand. Less...

A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with his own hand. Estate of Billings, 64 Cal. 427, 1 Pac. 701; Harrison v. Weatherby, 180 111. 418, 54 N. B. 237.

A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with his own hand. Estate of Billings, 64 Cal. 427, 1 Pac. 701; Harrison v. Weatherby, 180 111. 418, 54 N. B. 237. Less...