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Benevolence






Benevolence

1) Duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. 2) English law. An aid given by the subjects to the king under a pretended gratuity, but in realty it was an extortion and imposition.

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Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.

Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.

Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.

Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.

Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.

Obligation
In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synony- mous with duty. In a more technical meaning, it is a tie which binds us to pay or to do something agreeably to the laws and customs of the country in which the obligation is made.

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.

King
The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power.

Realty
An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments.

Extortion
Crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it means the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.



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Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.

Beneficial
Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her.

Beneficial interest
The right of a party to some profit, distribution, or benefit from a contract or trust. A beneficial interest is distinguished from the rights of someone like a trustee or official who has responsibility to perform and/or title to the assets but does not share in the benefits.

Beneficial owner
A term usually referring to the registered shipowner, but which may also designate another party having the equitable ownership of the vessel where it is operated under the cloak of a trust.

Beneficiaries
Aliens on whose behalf a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or employer have filed a petition for such aliens to receive immigration benefits from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beneficiaries generally receive a lawful status as a result of their relationship to a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or U.S. employer.

Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.

Beneficiary heir
Civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. If the heir apprehend that the succession-will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.

Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
English Ecclesiastical law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the king's gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person.

Beneficium competentiae
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition.

Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.

Benefit of cession
Civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of his creditors.

Benefit of clergy
English law. An exemption of the punishment of death which the laws impose on the commission of certain crimes, on the culprit demanding it.

Benefit of discussion
Civil law. The right which a surety has to cause the property of the principal debtor to be applied in satisfaction of the obligation in the first instance.

Benefit of division
In the civil law, which, in this respect, has been adopted in Louisiana, although, when there are several sureties, each one is bound for the whole debt, yet when one of them is sued alone, he has a right to have the debt apportioned among all the solvent sureties on the same obligation, so that he shall be compelled to pay his own share only.

Benefit of inventory
Civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the succession, only to the value of the effects of the succession, in causing an inventory of these effects within the time and manner proscribed by law.



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Benefit of cession
Civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of his creditors.

Benefit of clergy
English law. An exemption of the punishment of death which the laws impose on the commission of certain crimes, on the culprit demanding it.

Benefit of discussion
Civil law. The right which a surety has to cause the property of the principal debtor to be applied in satisfaction of the obligation in the first instance.

Benefit of division
In the civil law, which, in this respect, has been adopted in Louisiana, although, when there are several sureties, each one is bound for the whole debt, yet when one of them is sued alone, he has a right to have the debt apportioned among all the solvent sureties on the same obligation, so that he shall be compelled to pay his own share only.

Benefit of inventory
Civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the succession, only to the value of the effects of the succession, in causing an inventory of these effects within the time and manner proscribed by law.

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Bequeath
A gift of personal property by will.

Bequest
A gift by last will or testament; a legacy.

Bequests
Gifts made in a will.

Berne convention
An international copyright treaty called the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed at Berne, Switzerland in 1886 (amended several times and as late as 1971) and to which now subscribe 77 nations including all major trading countries including China, with the notable exception of Russia. It is based on the principle of national treatment.

Besaile
Besaile or Besayle. Domestic relations. The grea-grandfather, proavus.

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