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...]

In old English practice. All admission or receiving a third person te plead his right in a cause formerly com menced between two others; as, in an action by tenant for life or years, he in the reversion might come in and pray to be received to defend the land, and to plead with the demandant Cowell. Reseit of homage. The lord's receiving homage of his tenant at his admission to … [Read more...]

An eyewitness, a witness who has firsthand knowledge or experience of the matter or event and can testify as to what happened. … [Read more...]