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ESTACHE

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A bridge or stank of stone or timber. Cowell. … [Read more...]

ESTATE IN COPARCENARY

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An estate which several persons hold as one heir, whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of time, title, and possession; but the interests of the coparceners may be unequal. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 414; 2 BL Comm. 188. See COPARCENARY. … [Read more...]

ESTADAL

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Spanish law. In Spanish America, this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas or yards. 2 White's Coll. 139. … [Read more...]

ESTATE IN DOWER

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A species of life estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to claim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which, her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited. 3 Steph. Comm. 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 124, … [Read more...]

ESTADIA

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In Spanish law. Delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused by the charterer or consignee, for which demurrage is payable. … [Read more...]

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