An act that allowed the first person who ran to the courthouse to file and record a property deed to take precedent over second filers/recorders of the same property, regardless of whether the first filer knew of the second comers' claims to the land. … [Read more...]

Device used to measure the position, speed and direction of an object. Usually used by police to determine the speed of motor vehicles for the purposes of measuring speed and violations of speed limit laws. … [Read more...]

(adjective) - In English law. Excessive ; too large in amount; as a rank modus, 2 BL Comm. 30.(noun) - The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others. Wood v. U. S.f 15 Ct. CI. 158. … [Read more...]

See Race Act except this act allows the first filer to have a precedence of interest over second filers only if the first filer is unaware of other unrecorded claims to the property. … [Read more...]

A political party. The term arose in England, in 1818, when te popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bolingbroke (Disc. Parties, Let. 18) employs the term in Its present accepted sense: "Such a remedy might have wrought a radical cure of the evil that threatens our constitution," etc. Wharton. … [Read more...]