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Scotch law. Where an estate is settled on a long series of heirs, substituted one after another, in tailzie, the person first called in the tailzies, is the institute; the rest, the heirs of tailzie; or the substitutes. … [Read more...] about SUBSTITUTES

Latin: In Roman law, It was competent for a testator after instituting a hares (called the "hatres institutus") to substitute auother (called the "haeres substitutus") in his place in a certain event. If the event upon which the substitution was to take effect was the refusal of the instituted heir to accept the inheritance at all, then the substitution was called "vulgaris." … [Read more...] about SUBSTITUTIO HAEREDIS

Where a will contains a gift of property to. a class of persons, with a clause providing that on the death of a member of the class before the period of distribution his share is to go to his issue, (if any,) so as to substitute them for him, the gift to the issue is said to be substitutional or substitutionary: A bequest to such of the children of A. as shall be living at the … [Read more...] about SUBSTITUTIONAL, SUBSTITUTIONARY

The offense of withholding or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows: (1) Subtraction of suit and services, which is a species of injury affecting a man's real property, and consists of a withdrawal of (or a neglect to perform or pay) the fealty, suit of court, rent or … [Read more...] about SUBTRACTION

Statutory or written law that controls the rights and actions of the all persons within the jurisdiction. The codes of law such as the Penal Code and the Lanham Act governing trademark law are examples of substantive law. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which … [Read more...] about SUBSTANTIVE LAW