When one advances money for the benefit of another with his consent, or at his express request, although he be not benefited by the transaction, the creditor may recover the money in an action of assumpsit declaring for money paid for the defendant. 5 S. & R. 9. But one cannot by a voluntary payment of another's debt make himself creditor of that other. 2. Assumpsit for … [Read more...]

A prodigious birth; a human birth or offspring not having the shape of mankind, which cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Bract fol. 5; Co. Litt 7, 8; 2 BL Comm. 246. … [Read more...]

A dealer or seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name of any commodity, to express a seller of such commodity. … [Read more...]

L. Fr. In English law. A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It is the proper proceeding when the right of the party, as well as the right of the crown, appears upon record, and consists in putting in a claim of right grounded on facts already acknowledged … [Read more...]

Ministers of the mint; also bankers. Cowell … [Read more...]