Lat. The master of the suit; i.e., the person who was really and directly Interested in the suit as a party, as distinguished from his attorney or advocate. But the term is also applied to one who, though not originally a party, has made himself such, by intervention or otherwise, and has assumed entire control and responsibility for one side, and is treated by the court as … [Read more...]

A donor; one who makes a gift.The donor never ceases to possess until the donee begins to possess. … [Read more...]

A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of Inheritance, held a barony. Cowell. … [Read more...]

estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate; for example, where the owners of the estate, Blackacre, have a right of way or passage over the estate Whiteacre, the former is called the dominant, and the latter the servient estate. … [Read more...]

Where a domestic partner of another legally adopts the child of the other partner as if that partner was also a parent. … [Read more...]