Latin: Necessary; unavoidable; indispensable; not admitting of " choice or the action of the will; needful. … [Read more...]

L. Fr. Never executor. The name of a plea by which the defendant denies that he is an executor, as he is alleged to be; or that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be. … [Read more...]

As used in jurisprudence, the word "necessary" does not always Import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to wjjieh another may be termed "necessary," cannot exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as … [Read more...]

pleading. The general issue in formed on; and is in the following formula: And the said C D, by J K, his attorney, comes and defends the right, when, and says, that the said E F did not give the said manor, with the appurtenances, or ally part thereof, to the said G B, and the heirs of his body issuing, in manner and form as the said A B hath in his count above alleged.' And of … [Read more...]

L. Fr. (Never seised of a dowable estate.) In pleading. The general issue in the action of dower undo nil habet, by which the tenant denies that the demandant's husband was ever seised of an estate of which dower might be had. Rose. Real Act. 219, 220. … [Read more...]