Description
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
1.
A delineation or account of a particular subject by the recital of its characteristic accidents and qualities.
2.
A written enumeration of items composing an estate, or of its condition, or of titles or documents; like an inventory, but with more particularity, and without invoiy~ ing the idea of an appraisement.
3.
Anexact written account of an article, mechanical device, or process which is the subject of an application for a patent. 4, A method of pointing out a partienlar person by referring to his relationship tosome other person or his character as an officer, trustee, executor, etc.
5.
That part of a conveyance, advertisementof sale, ete., which identifies the land intended to be affected.