A parcel of arable land. Blount … [Read more...]

A system of voting in corporations to provide greater fairness for minority shareholders and enable them to have a better chance at electing a director on the board of directors. Typically a minority shareholder will be given a multiple number of votes per the amount of shares they have, e.g. a minority shareholder with 100 votes who is voting on 4 directors will be given 400 … [Read more...]

In old English law. A base kind of slavery. The confiscation or forfeiture which takes place when a lord seizes his tenant's estate. Blount; Du Cange. Cum action fuerit mere criminalis, institui poterit ab initio criminaliter vel civiliter. When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted from the beginning either criminally or civilly. Bract. 102. Cum adsunt testimonia … [Read more...]

In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 6, 1, 5. … [Read more...]

Latin: With copulation, t. 6., sexual intercourse. Used iii speaking of the validity of a marriage contracted "per verba de futuro cum copula," that is, with words referring to the future (a future intention to have the marriage solemnized) and consummated by sexual connection. Cum de lucro duorum quaeritur, melior est causa possidentis. When the question is as to the gain of … [Read more...]