Rolling-Stock
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
The movable property of a railroad; such property as in its ordinary use is taken frond one part of the line to another, as, cars and locomotives.^ Some decisions make the rolling-stock of railroads a fixture, part of the corpus of the road; other decisions, njake it personalty. In a few States, the precise nature is defined by statute.^ ROMAN" LAW. The common law of England has been largely influenced by the Ron Jan law, in several respects: 1. Through the ecclesiastical courts, their canon law being founded on the Roman law.
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Through the court of chancery, all the early chancellors being ecclesiastics, familiar with the canon law, if not with the Roman system.
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Through the development of commercial law. 4 The Roman law had great influence upon the early common law, not so much by the copj^ing of text into it as by the spirit and methods of study it introduced, and the disposition it engendered to refer rules to principles.. Blackstone, Kent, and other great writers, owe much in their arrangement and outline to Roman works.* See special terms, such as Chancellor, 1; Equity; Falcidian; Fee, 3; Latin; Obligation, 1; Jus; Pact;. Pater; Fatria; Responsa; Ustjfructus; Veto.