TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Sax. A quit rent or yearly payment formerly made by some tenants to the king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell; Blount. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
The same as Droit. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In French law. Right justice, equity, law, the whole body of law; also a right. This term exhibits the same ambiguity which is discoverable in the German equivalent, "recht" and the English word "right" On the one hand, these terms answer to the Roman "jus" and thus indicate law in the abstract, considered as the foundation of all rights, or the complex of underlying moral … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Droit-droit Double right. A union of the right of possession and the right of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 199. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
(Droit D'Accession) French civil law. Specificatio. That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus acquirendi quo quis ex aliena materia suo nomine novam speciem faciens bona fide ejus speciei dominium consequitur. It is a rule of the civil law, that if the thing can be reduced to the former matter, it belongs to the owner of the … [Read more...]