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Yard
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Yard1) A measure of length, containing three feet, or thirty-six inches.2) Estates.A piece of land enclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house. In England it is nearly synonymous with backside
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Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Accommodation
Contracts. An amicable agreement or composition between two contending parties.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Backside
Estates. In England this term was formerly used in conveyances and even in pleadings, and is still, adhered to with reference to ancient descriptions in deeds, in continuing the transfer of the same property.
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Yard
Yardland
Old English law. A quantity of land containing twenty acres.
Year and day
This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For example, when a judgment is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of time mentioned in the statute of limitations pending that action, may commence a fresh action within a year and a day of such reversal; again, after a year and a day have elapsed from the day of signing a judgment, no execution can be issued until the judgment shall have been revived by scire facias
Year books
These were books of reports of cases in a regular series from the reign of the English King to the time of Henry VIII, which were taken by the prothonotaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the crown, and published annually, whence their name Year Books
Years
Estate for years.
Yeas and nays
The list of members of a legislative body voting in the affirmative and negative of a proposition is so called
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Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Accommodation
Contracts. An amicable agreement or composition between two contending parties.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Backside
Estates. In England this term was formerly used in conveyances and even in pleadings, and is still, adhered to with reference to ancient descriptions in deeds, in continuing the transfer of the same property.
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Yugo lawyer
A lawyer representing Serbian multinational car maker Yugo.
Yellow brick road
In the US penitentiary slang, yellow lines indicaing path that prisoners from stay within.
Yo yo
In the US penitentiary slang, a person who is not sexually active with other prisoners.
Yard
Yardland
Old English law. A quantity of land containing twenty acres.
Year and day
This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For example, when a judgment is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of time mentioned in the statute of limitations pending that action, may commence a fresh action within a year and a day of such reversal; again, after a year and a day have elapsed from the day of signing a judgment, no execution can be issued until the judgment shall have been revived by scire facias
Year books
These were books of reports of cases in a regular series from the reign of the English King to the time of Henry VIII, which were taken by the prothonotaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the crown, and published annually, whence their name Year Books
Years
Estate for years.
Yeas and nays
The list of members of a legislative body voting in the affirmative and negative of a proposition is so called
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