Goods that are specific to, indentified with and belonging to a certain contract. … [Read more...]

The requisite intent to perform the physical act that is required by the crime, in other words, the person intended to commit the crime which he or she is charged. For example, if a person intended to permanently deprive another person of property, that person can be guilty of larceny. If the intent was temporary, that would not be the specific intent required to convict the … [Read more...]

A bequest of a particular thing. 2. It follows that a specific legacy may be of animals or inanimate things, provided they are specified and separated from all other things; a specific legacy may therefore be of money in a bag, or of money marked and so described; as, I give two eagles to A B, on which are engraved the initials of my name. A specific legacy may also be given … [Read more...]

(A) remedies. The actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfill it. 2. Many contracts are entered into by parties to fulfill certain things, and then the contracting parties neglect or refuse to fulfill their engagements. In such cases the party grieved has generally a remedy at law, and he may recover damages for the breach of the contract; but, in many … [Read more...]

Latin: In the civil law. Literally, a making of form; a giving of form to materials. That mode of acquiring property through which a person, by transforming a thing belonging to another, especially by working up his materials into a new species, becomes proprietor of the same. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]