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Latin: By words of the future [tense.] A phrase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Kent Comm. 87. … [Read more...] about PER VERBA DE FUTURO

L. Fr. By passing the estate. At common law, where two or more are seised, either by deed, devise, or descent as joint tenants or coparceners of the same estate, and one of them releases to the other, this is said to inure by way of "per mitter Vestate." Miller v. Emans, 19 N. Y. 388. … [Read more...] about PER MITTER L’ESTATE

Latin: By words of the present Ltense.] A phrase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439. … [Read more...] about PER VERBA DE PRAESENTI

L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for purposes of tenure and survivorship each is the holder of the whole, but for purposes of alienation each has only his own share, which is presumed in law to be equal. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 406. … [Read more...] about PER MY ET PER TOUT

Lat. In old English law. By view of the church; under the supervision of the church. The disposition of intestates' goods per visum ecclesics was one of the articles confirmed to the prelates by King John's Magna Charta. 8 Bl. Comm. 96. … [Read more...] about PER VISUM ECCLESIAE