Use; user; service to the user or benefit of a person. Dickfirson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 583, 25 L. Ed. 618. Inutius labor et sine fructu non est effectus legis. Useless and fruitless labor is not the effect of law. Co. Litt. 127. The law forbids such recoveries whose ends are vain, chargeable, and unprofitable. Id; Wing. Max. p. 110, max. 38. … [Read more...]

Lat. Common and ordinary duties with the lord's court. … [Read more...]

To pledge or mortgage lands. … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatus decedit, qui aut omnino testamentum non fecit ; aut non jure fecit; aut id quod fecerat ruptum irritumve factum est ; aut nemo ex eo haeres exstitit. A person dies intestate who either has made no testament at all or has made one not legally valid; or if the testament he … [Read more...]

The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic intoxication, that is, drunkenness or inebriety, or the mental and physical condition induced by drinking excessive quantities of alcoholic liquors, and this "is its meaning as used in statutes, … [Read more...]