Mortgage provision that allows the mortgage holder to demand and obtain immediate payment on the outstanding portion of the loan once a property is sold. … [Read more...]

The name of a rack in the Tower, so called after a minister of Henry VI. who sought to introduce it into England. … [Read more...]

A fundamental procedural safeguard that ensures that every citizen has the right to be have a proper hearing in a court of law before being deprived of any life, liberty or property pursuant to a government decree. See also the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution. … [Read more...]

A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer. Wharton. … [Read more...]

A person is "drunk" when he is so far under the influence of liquor that his passions are visibly excited or his judgment impaired, or when his brain is so far affected by potations of liquor that his intelligence, sense-perceptions, judgment continuity of thought or of ideas, speech, and coordination of volition with muscular action (or some of these faculties or processes) … [Read more...]