Literally meaning something new and used by the courts to describe a case or issue of law or other thing not before decided. … [Read more...]

Latin meaning The property of nobody. … [Read more...]

A thing which has no owner. A thing which has been abandoned by its owner is as much res nullius as if it had never belonged to any one. 2. The first possessor of such a thing becomes the owner, res nullius fit primi occupantis. … [Read more...]

The thing is lost to the owner. This phrase is used to express that when a thing is lost or destroyed, it is lost to the person who was the owner of it at the time. For example, an article is sold; if the seller have perfected the title of the buyer so that it is his, and it be destroyed, it is the buyer's loss; but if, on the contrary, something remains to be done before the … [Read more...]

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...]