The act by which the quantity of a piece of land is ascertained; the paper containing a statement of the courses, distances, and quantity of land, is also called a survey. 2. A survey made by authority of law and duly returned into the land office, is a matter of record, and of equal dignity with the patent. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition The process by which a … [Read more...]

One who makes surveys of land; one who has the overseeing or care of another person's land or works. Surveyor of highways. In English law. A person elected by the inhabitants of a parish, in vestry assembled, to survey the ' highways therein. He must possess certain qualifications in point of property; and, when elected, he is. compellable, unless he can show some grounds of … [Read more...]

crim. law. A security entered into before. Some competent court or officer, by a party accused, together with some other person, in the form of recognizance to the commonwealth in a certain sum of money, with, a condition that the accused shall keep the peace towards all the citizens of the commonwealth. A security for good behaviour is a similar recognizance with a condition … [Read more...]

(A) The practice of being a surety or guarantor on an agreement. (B) contracts. An accessory agreement by which a person binds himself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for his debt, default or miscarriage. 2. The person undertaken for must be liable as well as the person giving the promise, for otherwise the promise would be a principal and not a … [Read more...]

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