Without impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liability to suit for waste. A clause anciently often inserted in leases, (as the equivalent English phrase sometimes is.) signifying that the tenant or lessee shall not be liable to suit, {im petitio,) or challenged, or called to account, for committing waste. 2 Bl. Comm. 283; 4 Kent, Comm. 78; Co. Litt … [Read more...] about ABSQUE IMPETITIONE VASTI
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ABUTMENTS
The ends of a bridge, or those parts of it which touch the land. Sussex County v. Strader, 18 N. J. Law, 108, 35 Am. Dec. 530. … [Read more...] about ABUTMENTS
ABIGEATUS
Lat. In the civil law. The offense of stealing or driving away cattle. See Abigeus. … [Read more...] about ABIGEATUS
ABMATERTERA
Latin: In the civil law. A great great grandmother's sister, (abaviw soror.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called matertera maxima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, by Bracton, abmaterter magna. Bract. foL 68b. … [Read more...] about ABMATERTERA
ABOVE WATER
A term used to denote survival, as opposed to drowning with one's head below water. It is a metaphor for being able to survive and keeping one's head above water. As a company, being a going concern. Staying in the black and not operating at a loss. … [Read more...] about ABOVE WATER