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Abatement of a freehold
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Abatement of a freeholdThe entry of a stranger after the death of the ancestor, and before the heir or devisee takes possession, by which the rightful possession of the heir or devisee is defeated.
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Entry
1) Criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. 2) Estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner. 3) Commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant's or tradesman's accouut books; such entries are, in general, prima facie evidence of the sale and delivery, and of work, done.
Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
Devisee
A person to whom a devise has been made.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
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Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Abatement of a writ
Quashing or setting it aside on account of some fatal defect in it.
Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
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Ab intestat
An heir, ab intestat, is one on whom the law casts the inheritance or estate of a person who dies intestate.
Ab irato
Civil law. A Latin phrase, which signifies by a man in anger. It is applied to bequests or gifts, which a man makes adverse to the interest of his heir, in consequence of anger or hatred against him. Thus a devise made under these circumstances is called a testament ab irato. And the suit which the heirs institute to annul this will is called an action ab irato.
Abandonment
1) In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents have contracted relative to the concern of their commission but with regard to ship owners there is remarkable peculiarity; they are bound by the contract of the master only to the amount of their interest in the ship, and can be discharged from their responsibility by abandoning the ship and freight. 2) Contracts. In the French law, the act by which a debtor surrenders his property for the benefit of his creditors. 3) Malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation.
Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Abatement of a freehold
Abatement of a writ
Quashing or setting it aside on account of some fatal defect in it.
Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
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Entry
1) Criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. 2) Estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner. 3) Commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant's or tradesman's accouut books; such entries are, in general, prima facie evidence of the sale and delivery, and of work, done.
Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
Devisee
A person to whom a devise has been made.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
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Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Abatement of a writ
Quashing or setting it aside on account of some fatal defect in it.
Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
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Ab intestat
An heir, ab intestat, is one on whom the law casts the inheritance or estate of a person who dies intestate.
Ab irato
Civil law. A Latin phrase, which signifies by a man in anger. It is applied to bequests or gifts, which a man makes adverse to the interest of his heir, in consequence of anger or hatred against him. Thus a devise made under these circumstances is called a testament ab irato. And the suit which the heirs institute to annul this will is called an action ab irato.
Abandonment
1) In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents have contracted relative to the concern of their commission but with regard to ship owners there is remarkable peculiarity; they are bound by the contract of the master only to the amount of their interest in the ship, and can be discharged from their responsibility by abandoning the ship and freight. 2) Contracts. In the French law, the act by which a debtor surrenders his property for the benefit of his creditors. 3) Malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation.
Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Abatement of a freehold
Abatement of a writ
Quashing or setting it aside on account of some fatal defect in it.
Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
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