The right of a husband; especially the right which a husband acquires to his wife's movable estate by virtue of the marriage. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 1, p. 63. … [Read more...]

Latin meaning The right of possession. … [Read more...]

In Scotch law. The right of a relict; the right or claim of a relict or widow to her share of her hus band's estate, particularly the movables. 2 Kames, Eq. 340; 1 Forb. Inst, pt 1, p. 67. … [Read more...]

In old English law. Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197; Bract fol. 23. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. The right of postliminy; the right or claim of a person who had been restored to the possession of a thing, or to a former condition, to be considered as though he had never been deprived of it Dig. 49, 15, 5; 3 Bl. Comm. 107, 210. In international law. The right by which property taken by an enemy, and recaptured or rescued from him by the fellow subjects or … [Read more...]