In the civil law. The law of Immunity or exemption from the burden of public office. Dig. 50, 6. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer, or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground of one's neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]

The civil law of Paplrius. The title of the earliest collection of Roman leges curiatas, said to have been made in the time of Tarquin, the last of the kings, by a pontifex maximus of the name of Sextus or Publius Paplrius. Very few fragments of this collection now remain, and the authenticity of these has been doubted. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]

Latin meaning A right against a person; a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure to do or not to do something. … [Read more...]

The right of survivorship. The right of the survivor or survivors of two or more joint tenants to the tenancy or estate, upon the death of one or more of the joint tenants. Joacereicendi inter mereatores, pro beneneio contmereii, locum non habet. The right of survivorship has no place between merchants, for the benefit of commerce, Co. Litt. 182a; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. … [Read more...]