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(A) contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 1 Bell's Com. B. 2, pt. 3, c. 2, s. 4, art. 2, Section 1, page 255. Vide Bailment; Hire. (B) estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract is made, governs in everything which relates to the mode of construing it. Vide Lex loci contractus. … [Read more...]
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In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, descriptions, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical oDjects, or other points by which the land can be exactlv located and identified. … [Read more...]
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Latin meaning the place where a crime was committed. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In the civil and Scotch law. A letter; one who lets; he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913. In American land law. One who locates land, or intends or is entitled to locate. See Location. … [Read more...]