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estates. Any limitation tending to take the subject of it out of commerce for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years beyond; and in case of a posthumous child, a few months more, allowing for the term of gestation;; or it is such a limitation of property as renders it unalienable beyond the period allowed by law. Scattergood v. Edge, 12 Mod. 278, … [Read more...] about PERPETUITY

A plaintiff's attorney who specializes in lawsuits that involve plaintiffs who suffer bodily injury. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER

That fiction of the English law which for certain political purposes ascribes to the king in his political capacity the attribute of immortality; for, though the reigning monarch may die, yet by this fiction the king never dies, i. c, the office is supposed to be reoccupied for all political purposes immediately on iris death. Brown. … [Read more...] about PERPETUITY OF THE KING

The amount awarded (also known as damages) as a result of a lawsuit or insurance settlement to compensate someone for a personal injury. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL INJURY RECOVERY

In its most extensive sense, "perquisites" signifies anything obtained by industry or purchased with money, different from that which descends from a father or ancestor. Bract 1. 2, c. 30, n. 3. Profits accruing to a lord of a manor by virtue of his court-baron, over and above the yearly profits of his land; also other things that come casually and not yearly. Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...] about PERQUISITES