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Abstention
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AbstentionFrench law. This is the tacit renunciation by an heir of a succession.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tacit
That which, although not expressed, is understood from the nature of the thing, or from the provision of the law; implied.
Renunciation
The act of giving up a right.
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.
Succession
Common law. The mode by which one set of persons, members of a corporation aggregate, acquire the rights of another set which preceded them. This term in strictness is to be applied only to such corporations.
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Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
Abstract of title
A brief account of all the deeds upon which the title to an estate rests.
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Absolute conveyance
A conveyance entirely executed; not conditional, as in the case of a mortgage.
Absolution
A definite sentence whereby a man accused of any crime is acquitted.
Absque hoc
Pleading. When the pleadings were in Latin these words were employed in a traverse.
Absque impetitione vasti
Without impeachment of waste. Without any right to prevent waste.
Absque tali causa
This phrase is used in a traverse de injuria, by which the plaintiff affirms that without the cause in his plea alleged he commit the said trespasses.
Abstention
Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
Abstract of title
A brief account of all the deeds upon which the title to an estate rests.
Abus de droit
Abuse of right. A person may be liable for harm caused by doing something which one, nevertheless, has a right to do, if the right was: a) principally intended to cause harm; b) or was used without a legitimate, interest justifying judicial protection; c) or was used in bad faith; d) or was contrary to basic rules of morality or fairness.
Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Abuttals
The buttings and boundings of land, showing on what other lands,rivers, highways, or other places it does abut.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tacit
That which, although not expressed, is understood from the nature of the thing, or from the provision of the law; implied.
Renunciation
The act of giving up a right.
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.
Succession
Common law. The mode by which one set of persons, members of a corporation aggregate, acquire the rights of another set which preceded them. This term in strictness is to be applied only to such corporations.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
Abstract of title
A brief account of all the deeds upon which the title to an estate rests.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Absolute conveyance
A conveyance entirely executed; not conditional, as in the case of a mortgage.
Absolution
A definite sentence whereby a man accused of any crime is acquitted.
Absque hoc
Pleading. When the pleadings were in Latin these words were employed in a traverse.
Absque impetitione vasti
Without impeachment of waste. Without any right to prevent waste.
Absque tali causa
This phrase is used in a traverse de injuria, by which the plaintiff affirms that without the cause in his plea alleged he commit the said trespasses.
Abstention
Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
Abstract of title
A brief account of all the deeds upon which the title to an estate rests.
Abus de droit
Abuse of right. A person may be liable for harm caused by doing something which one, nevertheless, has a right to do, if the right was: a) principally intended to cause harm; b) or was used without a legitimate, interest justifying judicial protection; c) or was used in bad faith; d) or was contrary to basic rules of morality or fairness.
Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Abuttals
The buttings and boundings of land, showing on what other lands,rivers, highways, or other places it does abut.
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