crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. This offence is punished in Pennsylvania, an perhaps in most of the states, by statutory provisions. … [Read more...]

Decomposing materials or waste materials that have been disposed. … [Read more...]

Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same as acquets. Bienes gananciales are thus defined: Aquellos que el marido y la muger o cualquiera de los dos adquieren o aumentan durante el matrimonio por compra o otro contrato, 6 mediante su trabajo e industria, como tambien los frutos de los bienos proprios que cada uno elevo al matrimonio, et de los que … [Read more...]

In Scotch law. Tithes of corn, (grain.) Bell. … [Read more...]

In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolution of the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright v. Cartwright, 18 Tex. 634; Cutter v. Waddingham, 22 Mo. 254. … [Read more...]