Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

The period in which the revolution of the earth round the sun, and the accompanying changes in the order of nature, are completed. Generally, when a statute spealcs of a year, twel

Antique English court reports, in a regular series, from King Edward II. to Henry VIII., which were taken by the prothonotaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of

A degree or grade in England, next in order to that of the gentry. The word etymologically means a common man, i.e. commoner. Yeoman also designates an ofiicer of the queen's house

Are words used at the beginning of the reddendum clause in a lease, with reference to the rent intended to be payable under the lease. No special form of words is, however, essenti

In the Kansas exemption statute, does not necessarily imply cattle already broke to work. Cattle intended by the owner for use as work cattle, and old enough to be so used, are wit

The registries of titles to land provided by acts of parliament for the ridings of the county of York; analogous to the registries of deeds generally established in the various cou

This phrase, when used in English conveyancing with reference to settlements of land, signifies all such children as are not entitled to the rights of an eldest son. It therefore i

Funds left by will for the support of a school " for the instruction of youth " may be applied to support a school for both sexes; the trustees are not bound z.