In England, where a testator directs his real and personal estate to be sold, and disposes of the proceeds as forming one aggregate, this is called a "blended fundV' … [Read more...]

The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, In order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. Leap year, consisting of 366 days, and happening every fourth year, by the addition of a day in the month of February, which in that year consists of twenty nine days. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Although the name bissextile is still … [Read more...]

A person who gets his living by frequenting race courses and places where games of chance are played, getting the best odds, and giving the least he can, but not necessarily cheating. That is not Indictable either by statute or at common law. Barnett v. Allen, 3 HurL & N. 379. … [Read more...]

A signed check which doesn't have the amount to pay or the payee filled in. Usually slang to mean that the payor will accept pay whatever the cost demanded by a service provider. … [Read more...]

One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing. 2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others. When an attesting witness becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if within the jurisdiction of the court, and examined. … [Read more...]