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(A) See also a guaranty (B) contracts. This word has several significations, as it is applied to the conveyance and sale of lands, to the sale of goods, and to the contract of insurance. 2. 1. The ancient law relating to warranties of land was full of subtleties and intricacies; it occupied the attention of the most eminent writers on the English law, and it was declared by … [Read more...]

One who makes a warranty, Shep. Touch. 181. Warrantor potest exeipere quod que-rens non tenet terram de qua petit war-ran tiam, et quod donnm fnit insnfficiens. Hob. 21. A warrantor may object that the complainant does not hold the land of which he seeks the warranty, and that the gift was insufficient. … [Read more...]

In old conveyancing. To warrant; to bind one's self, by covenant in a deed of conveyance, to defend the grantee in his title and possession. Warrantizare est defendere et acqui etare tenentem, qui warrantum. vocavit, in seisina sua; et tenens de re warrant! excambium habebit ad valentiam. Co. Litt. 365. To warrant is to defend and insure in peace the tenant, who calls for … [Read more...]

A writ which lay for a man who, having had a day assigned him personally to appear in court in any action in which he was sued, was in the mean time, by commandment, employed in the king's service, so that he could not come at the day assigned. It was directed to the justices that they might not record him in default for that day. Cowell. … [Read more...]