Contract term meaning that something is included by its mention or being referred to within the document. … [Read more...]

Any right to, or Interest in, land which may subsist in third persons, to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with the passing of the fee. A claim, lien, charge, or liability attached to and binding real property; as, a mortgage, judgment lien, attachment right of dower, right of way or other easement, unpaid water rent lease, unpaid taxes … [Read more...]

An act against good behavior and a just delicacy. Timmons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 80 C. C. A, 74; McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 144 ; Ardery v. State, 56 Ind. 328. This is scarcely a technical term of the law, and is not susceptible of exact definition or description in its juridical uses. The question whether or not a given act publication, etc., is indecent is for the court and … [Read more...]

Not consisting of matter. 2. Things incorporeal. are those which are not the object of sense, which cannot be seen or felt, but which we can easily, conceive in the understanding, as rights, actions, successions, easements, and the like. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Without body; not of materia] nature; the opposite of "corporeal," (9. v.. Incorporeal chattels. … [Read more...]

The holder of an incumbrance, e.g., a mortgage, on the estate of another. De Voe v. Rundle, 33 Wash. 604, 74 Pac 836; Shaeffer v. Weed, 8 111. 514; Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me 181. … [Read more...]