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Shortened conventional expressions, employed as substitutes for names, phrases, dates, and the like, for the saving of space, of time in transcribing, etc. Abbott, For Table of Abbreviations, see Appendix, post, page 1239. Abbreviationum ille Humerus et sensus accipiendus est, lit concessit) non sit in anis. In abbreviations, such number and sense is to be taken that the grant … [Read more...] about ABBREVIATIONS

In Scotch law. A Judicial declaration that the party abides by the deed on which he founds, in an action where the deed or writing is attacked as forged. Unless this be done, a decree that the deed is false will be pronounced. Pat Comp. It has the effect of pledging the party to stand the consequences of founding on a forged deed. Bell. … [Read more...] about ABIDING BY

(A) contracts. In the French law, the act by which a debtor surrenders his property for the benefit of his creditors. (B) contracts. In insurances the act by which the insured relinquishes to the assurer all the property to the thing insured. 2. No particular form is required for an abandonment, nor need it be in writing; but it must be explicit and absolute, and must set forth … [Read more...] about ABANDONMENT

is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts. 2. When the estate is short of paying the debts and legacies, and there are general legacies and specific legacies, the rule is that the general legatees must abate proportionally in order to pay the debts; a specific legacy is not abated unless the general legacies cannot pay all the debts; in that … [Read more...] about ABATEMENT OF LEGACY

In ecclesiastical law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form to be converted into papal bulls. Bouvier. … [Read more...] about ABBREVIATORS