contracts. The transfer of the title to land by one or more persons to another or others. By the term persons is here understood not only natural persons but corporations. The instrument which conveys the property is also called a conveyance. The whole of a conveyance, when it consists of different parts or instruments, must be taken together, and the several parts of it relate … [Read more...]

Depending on or arising from the mutual agreement of parties; as distinguished from legal which means created by or arising from the act of the law. As to conventional "Estates" "Interest" "Mortgage" "Subrogation" and "Trustees" see those titles. … [Read more...]

The act of congress, approved the 29th July, 1850, entitled an act to provide for recording the conveyances of vessels and for other purposes, enacts that no bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel of the United States, shall be valid against any person, other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons … [Read more...]

Latin: In the civil law. A co-tutor, or co-guardian. Inst. 1, 24, I. … [Read more...]

Where the plaintiff's own negligence in an accident is partially responsible (the proximate cause) of the injury suffered. It is a common law defense to a claim based on negligence, an action in tort. A defendant to an accident lawsuit by a plaintiff may claim that the absolute defense that the plaintiff's own negligent conduct contributed to and may have been the primary cause … [Read more...]