A qualified property in animals feres natura; i.e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others. 2 Bl. Comm. 394 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 9. … [Read more...]

chan. pract. For confessed. 2. When the defendant has been served personally with a subpoena, or when not being so served has appeared, and afterwards neglects to answer the matter contained in the bill, it shall be taken pro confesso, as if the matter were confessed by the defendant. … [Read more...]

The term "privity" means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor, the donee with the donor, and the lessee with the lessor. Union Nat. Bank v. International Bank, 123 I1L 510, 14 N. E. 859; Hunt v. Haven, 52 N. H. 169; Mygatt v. Coe, 124 N. Y. 212, … [Read more...]

For counsel given. An annuity pro consilio amounts to a condition, but in a feoffment or lease for life, etc., it is the consideration, and does not amount to a condition; for the state of the land by the feoffment is executed, and the grant of the annuity is executory. Plowd. 412. … [Read more...]

The relation which subsists between two contracting parties. Hamm. on Part. 182. 2. From the nature of the covenant entered into by him, a lessee has both privity of contract and of estate; and though by an assignment of his lease he may destroy his privity of estate, still the privity of contract remains, and he is liable on his covenant notwithstanding the assignment. … [Read more...]