The plaintiff, or actor. … [Read more...]

(A) French for for the lifetime of another and used to describe the duration of a property interest, for example, the use of an item for the lifetime of a particular person. (B) tenures. These old French words signify, for another's life. An estate is said to be pur autre vie, when a lease is made of lands or tenements to a man, to hold for the life of another person. … [Read more...]

construction. The act or method of placing points in a written or printed instrument. 2. By the word point is here understood all the points in grammar, as the comma, the semicolon, the colon, and the like. 3. All such instruments are to be construed without any regard to the punctuation; and in a case of doubt, they ought to be construed in such a manner that they may have … [Read more...]

In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, … [Read more...]

Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant Calvin. … [Read more...]