This is an exception to the hearsay rule (which doesn't admit testimony based upon someone's direct knowledge but a statement of what a third party stated) and it allows a business document to be admitted into evidence assuming there is a proper foundation (such as the fact that these records were created in the routine, ordinary course of business without question of another … [Read more...]

The purchase of the rights of a person to a piece of land when the seller is disseised. 2. When a deed is made by one who, though having a legal right to land, is at the time of the conveyance disseised, as a general rule of the common law, the sale is void; the law will not permit any person to sell a quarrel, or, as it is commonly termed, a pretended title. Such a conveyance … [Read more...]

In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 27, … [Read more...]

In old English law. The barons of a county. … [Read more...]

An agreement between contracting parties where one party buys out their obligations under the contract for a certain sum of money. … [Read more...]