Law Lexicon, Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence: Explaining the Technical Words and Phrases Employed in the Several Departments of English Law : Including the Various Legal Terms Used in Commercial Transactions : Together with an Explanatory as Well as Literal Translation of the Latin Maxims Contained in the Writings of the Ancient and Modern Commentators |
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... LAND BY ALLUVION , land gained from the sea , by the washing up of sand or soil , so as to form firm ground ; or by dereliction , as when the sea shrinks back below the usual water - mark . If this accretion of land be by small and ...
... LAND BY ALLUVION , land gained from the sea , by the washing up of sand or soil , so as to form firm ground ; or by dereliction , as when the sea shrinks back below the usual water - mark . If this accretion of land be by small and ...
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... land as freehold whenever the public land was divided , had still no right to occupy it while it lay in the mass unallotted ; while the old burghers , who enjoyed exclusively the right of occupation with regard to the undivided public land ...
... land as freehold whenever the public land was divided , had still no right to occupy it while it lay in the mass unallotted ; while the old burghers , who enjoyed exclusively the right of occupation with regard to the undivided public land ...
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... land , and then leas- ing them out in small parcels to the poor . It was another law of Moses , that the vendor of a piece of land , or his nearest relative , had a right to redeem the land sold whenever they chose , by paying the ...
... land , and then leas- ing them out in small parcels to the poor . It was another law of Moses , that the vendor of a piece of land , or his nearest relative , had a right to redeem the land sold whenever they chose , by paying the ...
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... land again . Abolished by 12 Car . II . c . 24 . AMPLIATION , an enlargement , a deferring of judgment till the ... lands to the Crown incurred by the felony of the tenant , after which time the lands escheat to the lord . - Termes de la ...
... land again . Abolished by 12 Car . II . c . 24 . AMPLIATION , an enlargement , a deferring of judgment till the ... lands to the Crown incurred by the felony of the tenant , after which time the lands escheat to the lord . - Termes de la ...
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... land left unploughed between the furrows or at the end of a field . - Encyc . Lond . BALLASTAGE , a toll payed for the privi- lege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor . BALLIERS , persons , who , standing on a balk ...
... land left unploughed between the furrows or at the end of a field . - Encyc . Lond . BALLASTAGE , a toll payed for the privi- lege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor . BALLIERS , persons , who , standing on a balk ...
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