Latin legal term that means the domicile (address) where a party in a legal contract agrees to be served. The parties to a contract will typically include a clause containing the address where legal notices are to be sent and makes it incumbent upon that party to notify the other party or parties of any change of address after the execution of the contract. … [Read more...]

In old English law. Power over another; also danger. Bract. 1. 4, t. 1, c. 10. … [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...]