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Abstract of title






Abstract of title

A brief account of all the deeds upon which the title to an estate rests.

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Brief
Ecclesiastical law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, which are scaled with lead.

Account
Practice. 1) A statement of the receipts and payments of an executor, administrator, or other trustee, of the estate confided to him. 2) An account is also the statement of two merchants or others who have dealt together, showing the debits and credits between them.

Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.



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Abstention
French law. This is the tacit renunciation by an heir of a succession.

Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.



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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
French law. This is the tacit renunciation by an heir of a succession.

Abstract of record
A short, abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.

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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.

Ac etiam
English law. In order to give jurisdiction to a court, a cause of action over which the court has jurisdiction is alleged, and also,, (ac etiam) another cause of action over which, without being joined with the first, the court would have no jurisdiction;

Accedas ad curiam
English law. That you go to court.

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