(From or on the grievous complaint.) In old English practice. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will, (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom,) and the heir of the devisor entered and detained them from him. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 198, L, et seq.; 3 … [Read more...]

From the necessity of law. … [Read more...]

By the hypothesis; upon the supposition; upon the theory or facts assumed. "According to the hypothesis proposed." … [Read more...]

From the necessity of the thing. Many acts may be done ex necessitate ret, which would not be justifiable without it; and sometimes property is protected, ex necessitate rei, which, under, other circumstances, would not be so. For example, property put upon the land of another from necessity, cannot be distrained for rent. See Distress; Necessity. … [Read more...]

With contrivance or deliberation; designedly; on purpose. See l Kent, Comm. 318; Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat 334, 4 L. Ed. 97. … [Read more...]