U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1857 which was a basis for starting the Civil War deciding that a slave removed to a free state still was considered a slave. … [Read more...] about DREDD SCOTT V. SANFORD
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DOWER AND CURTSEY
(A) An estate for life, which the law gives the widow in the third part of the lands and tenements, or hereditaments of which the husband, was solely seised, at any time during the coverture, of an estate in fee or in tail, in possession, and to which estate in the lands and tenements, the issue, if any, of such widow might, by possibility, have inherited. Watk. Prin. Con. 38; … [Read more...] about DOWER AND CURTSEY
DRAIN
(verb) - To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches. People v. Tarks, 58 Cal. 639.(noun) - A trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a channel through which water may flow off. The word has no technical legal meaning. Any hollow space … [Read more...] about DRAIN
DOWLE STONES
Stones dividing lands, etc Cowell … [Read more...] about DOWLE STONES
Drake J. Agri. L.
Drake Journal of Agricultural Law … [Read more...] about Drake J. Agri. L.