commercial law. The term usance comes from usage, and signifies the time which by usage or custom is allowed in certain countries, for the payment of a bill of exchange. 2. The time of one, two or three mouths after the date of the bill, according to the custom of the places between which the exchanges run. 3. Double or treble is double or treble the usual time, and half usance … [Read more...]

The rule of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of one witness is equivalent to the testimony of none. Wharton. … [Read more...]

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Food not fit to be eaten; food which, if eaten, would be injurious. 2. Although the law does not in general consider a sale to be a warranty or goodness of the quality of a personal chattel, yet it is otherwise with regard to food and liquor when sold for consumption. … [Read more...]

(A) estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2. In order to create a use, there must always be a good Consideration; though, when once raised, it may be passed by grant to a … [Read more...]