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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

An agreement, a made by a deed, or contained persons, and sealed by one dependent on some prior or concurrent, when each party must aver performance it, before seeking to enforce They are also in deed, by law. They are inherent granted, or collateral, when run -with the land into Court for the District of Columbia, Circuit Courts of the United States; holding a special term, has the power Courts of the United States. This of cases arising under the copyright and other special cases. There is Court of the United States^ where is applied to the Kirufs courts, esor his successors, on the Norman from the King, of which the jurisdicauthority.

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The term Popular to such courts as existed before the Witenagemote), which were national, popuas the hundred, county, and borough Record is one which has power to of its authority. The records of a kept on parchment, and written in other courts as conclusive evidence and these records are in many cases matters therein contained. land of a manor. Court-rolls: the of surrenders and admittances, wills, affecting the lands of the manor. tribute. who knowingly receives an outlaw. promise, or an express statement, in a deed, between two or more or more of them. Covenants are act or condition, or independent; is dependent on the other, and either of his own or readiness to perform the other against the other party. expressed in the deed, or in la.vT, implied when relating directly to the land affecting some other matter. They the hands of other grantees, or they classes: of seisin, that convey; against of quiet enjoyment; times called real which run with the land. sonal, and cannot be