In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo eonfundltur si unieuiquo Jurisdietio non servetur. 4 Inst. Proem. The order of things is confounded if every one preserve not his jurisdiction. Rerum progress us ostendunt multa, qua in initio prsecaveri sen prsBviderl non pounnt. 6 Coke, 40. The progress of … [Read more...]

Those things which belong to cities or municipal corporations are so called; they belong so far to the public that they cannot be appropriated to private use; such as public squares, market houses, streets, and the like. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 446. … [Read more...]

Latin: In the civil law. A thing; an object As a term of the law, this word has a very wide and extensive signification, Including not only things which are objects of property, but also such as are not capable of individual ownership. See Inst. 2, 1, pr. And in old English law it is said to have a general import, comprehending both corporeal and incorporeal things of whatever … [Read more...]

Where a person who has sold goods or other property to a purchaser sells them again to some one else. Sometimes a vendor reserves the right of reselling if the purchaser commits default in payment of the purchase money, and in some cases (e. iron a sale of perishable articles) the vendor may do so without having reserved the right Sweet … [Read more...]

evidence. The subject matter; thing done. 2. When it is necessary in the course of a cause to inquire into the nature of a particular act, or the intention of the person who did the act, proof of what the person said at the time of doing it, is admissible evidence, as part of the res gesta, for the purpose of showing its true character. On an indictment for a rape, for example, … [Read more...]