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Shifting use
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Shifting useEstates. One which takes effect in derogation of some other estate, and is either limited by the deed creating it, or authorized to be created by some person named in it. This is sometimes called a secondary use.
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Effect
The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its effect.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Deed
Only in relatively rare circumstances is a deed required to complete a transaction. In a commercial situation the most common use is where a variation or concession is made without the other party giving anything in return. A deed is enforceable regardless of the legal requirements for contracts such as the need for consideration. Where a deed is necessary, there are special requirements for a company wishing to enter into such an arrangement which may either involve use of the company or the signature of two directors or a director and a company secretary.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Secondary
1) Construction. That which comes after the first, which is primary: as, the primary law of, nations the secondary law of nations. 2) English law. An officer who is second or next to the chief officer; as secondaries to the prothonotaries of the courts of king's bench, or common pleas; secondary of the remembrancer in the exchequer.
Use
1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy.
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Shelley's case
This case, contains a rule usually known as the rule in Shelley's case, which has caused more commentaries perhaps than any other case. It has been expressed with great precision, though not with much elegance, to be "in any instrument, if a freehold be limited to the ancestor for life, and the inheritance to his heirs, either mediately or immediately, the first taker takes the whole estate; if it be limited to the heirs of his body, he takes a fee tail; if to his heirs a fee simple."
Shepardizing
Method for finding subsequent development of a legal theory by tracing status of a case as legal authority.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Sheriffalty
The office of sheriff, the time during which a sheriff is to remain in office.
Sherman act
The basic antitrust statute prohibiting any unreasonable interference, conspiracy, restraint of trade, or monopolies with respect to interstate commerce.
Shifting use
Shill
An person in a Confidence Game that acts as a participant to draw in the Mark. An Accomplice -- one who is paid to play as part of a Swindle. Derived from casino gambling, where the shill is a paid employee used to attract other gamblers.
Shilling
English law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one twen-tieth part of a pound. In the United States, while they were colonies, there were coins of this denomination, but they greatly varied in their value.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Ship broker
One who transacts business between the owners of vessels and merchants who send cargoes.
Ship damages
In the charter parties with the English East India Company, these words occur; their meaning is damage from negligence, insufficiency or bad stowage in the ship.
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Effect
The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its effect.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Deed
Only in relatively rare circumstances is a deed required to complete a transaction. In a commercial situation the most common use is where a variation or concession is made without the other party giving anything in return. A deed is enforceable regardless of the legal requirements for contracts such as the need for consideration. Where a deed is necessary, there are special requirements for a company wishing to enter into such an arrangement which may either involve use of the company or the signature of two directors or a director and a company secretary.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Secondary
1) Construction. That which comes after the first, which is primary: as, the primary law of, nations the secondary law of nations. 2) English law. An officer who is second or next to the chief officer; as secondaries to the prothonotaries of the courts of king's bench, or common pleas; secondary of the remembrancer in the exchequer.
Use
1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy.
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Shelley's case
This case, contains a rule usually known as the rule in Shelley's case, which has caused more commentaries perhaps than any other case. It has been expressed with great precision, though not with much elegance, to be "in any instrument, if a freehold be limited to the ancestor for life, and the inheritance to his heirs, either mediately or immediately, the first taker takes the whole estate; if it be limited to the heirs of his body, he takes a fee tail; if to his heirs a fee simple."
Shepardizing
Method for finding subsequent development of a legal theory by tracing status of a case as legal authority.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Sheriffalty
The office of sheriff, the time during which a sheriff is to remain in office.
Sherman act
The basic antitrust statute prohibiting any unreasonable interference, conspiracy, restraint of trade, or monopolies with respect to interstate commerce.
Shifting use
Shill
An person in a Confidence Game that acts as a participant to draw in the Mark. An Accomplice -- one who is paid to play as part of a Swindle. Derived from casino gambling, where the shill is a paid employee used to attract other gamblers.
Shilling
English law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one twen-tieth part of a pound. In the United States, while they were colonies, there were coins of this denomination, but they greatly varied in their value.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Ship broker
One who transacts business between the owners of vessels and merchants who send cargoes.
Ship damages
In the charter parties with the English East India Company, these words occur; their meaning is damage from negligence, insufficiency or bad stowage in the ship.
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