practice. The ancient language of a special award of venire, where of several defendants, one pleads, and one lets judgment go by default, whereby the jury, who are to try and assess damages on the issue, are also to assess damages against the defendant suffering judgment by default. … [Read more...]

A principal who has an agent act on his behalf as if the agent was the principal so as not to disclose the existence or identity of the principle to a third party. … [Read more...]

Equally applied in all areas or as affecting all involved. A statute is general and uniform in its operation when it operates equally upon all persons who are brought within the relations and circumstances provided for. … [Read more...]

That which is held by the same title by two or more persons, whether their rights are equal, as to value or quantity, or unequal. 2. Tenants in common, joint-tenants, and partners, hold an undivided right in their respective properties, until partition has been made. The rights of each owner of an undivided thing extends over the whole and every part of it, totum in toto, et … [Read more...]

The laws which govern commercial transactions that take place in the marketplace involving goods and services, covers sales, guarantees, warranties, negotiable instruments and other commercial issues. It is adopted in form in every state. … [Read more...]