Also known as an escrow agreement, it contains the terms of how escrow should be handled and the conditions that must occur before the assets held in escrow can be released. … [Read more...]

An old term for the products which the ground or land yields; as the hay of the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn of arable fields, rent and services, etc. The word has been anciently applied to the land itself. Jacob; Fosgate v. Hydraulic Co., 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 293. … [Read more...]

In old English law. An escrow; a scroll. "And deliver the deed to a stranger, as an escrowl." Perk. c. 1, f 9; Id. c. 2, H 137, 138. … [Read more...]

A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other at some other time. It differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed. Wood, Inst. 57. … [Read more...]

Service of the shield. One of the varieties of tenure in knight's service, to the duty imposed being that of accompanying the king to the wars for forty days, at the tenant's own charge, or sending a substitute. In later times, this service was commuted for a certain payment in money, which was then called "escuage certain." See 2 Bl. Comm. 74, 75. … [Read more...]