Parties who have the same interests such as those who stand to gain as the result of a certain action, such as co-plaintiffs who will all benefit equally should the defendants be found liable in a lawsuit. … [Read more...]

This term is used to designate the possession by one person of several estates or rights. For example, a right to an estate to which an easement is attached, or the dominant estate, and to an estate which an easement encumbers, or the servient estate, in such case the easement is extinguished. But a distinction has been made between a thing that has being by prescription, and … [Read more...]

In taxation. Uniformity in taxation implies equality in the burden of taxation, which cannot exist without uniformity in the mode of assessment, as well as in the rate of taxation. Further, the uniformity must be coextensive with the territory to which it applies. And it must be extended to all property subject to taxation, so that all property may be taxed alike and equally. … [Read more...]

A combining and consolidating of two churches into one. Also it is when one church is made subject, to another, and one man is rector of both; and where a conventual church is made a cathedral. Tomlins. … [Read more...]

The English statute of 2 Wm. IV. c. 39, es-tablishing a uniform process for the commencement of actions in all the courts of law at Westminster. 3 Steph. Comm. 566. … [Read more...]