Author: Judicial Definitions
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Ubi Eadem Ratio, Ibi Eadem Jus
Where the reason is the same, the law is the same. Like reason maketh like law….
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Uberrima Fide
With the strictest good faith. See Faith….
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Trover And Conversion
The action for damages for a conversion, maintainable by him who has the right to immediate possession. 3 Bl. Com. 152; 127 Mass. 64….
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The Most Ancient Method Of Conveyance
The aptest word was do or dedi, I give or have given. As the personal abilities of the feoffee were the inducement, his estate was confined to his person, and subsisted for life. By a feoffment, later, a fee-simple was frequently created. With livery of seisin, the […]
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Titula Est Justa Causa Possidendi Id Quod Nostrum Est
A title is the just right of possessing that which is our own. 1 Coke, Inst. 345 b; 2 Bl. Com. 195; 34 Cal. 385; 4 Conn. 55; 11 N.J.L. 62; 81 Va. 383. The lawful cause or ground of possessing that which is ours. Merrill v. Agricultural Ins. Co., 73 N.Y. 456 (1878); 6…
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Title-deed
Deeds evidencing one’s right to land are his title-deeds, otherwise called his muniments of title….
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Tenants At Will
One who holds lands as tenant at the will of the lessor. A tenancy at will is one which may be determined at the will or pleasure of either party.Davis v. Murphy, 126 Mass. 145 (1879), Morton, J….
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Tenants In Coparcenary
These always take and hold by descent as one heir. They have distinct estates, with right to possession in common. 2 Bl. Com. 187-91….
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Sensus
Latin. Sense; signification….
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Seisin In Deed
A possession in fact by one having or claiming a freehold interest….
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Seized In His Demesne As Of Fee
Formal words expressing the highest estate a subject can have in land. It is his property or dominicum, since it is for him and his heirs forever, not absolute, but in a qualified or feudal sense; and as of fee, because not purely and simply his own, since it is held of a feudal superior.…
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Seisin In Law
The right of immediate possession….
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Sed Quære
But examine….
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Secundum Legem
Conformably to law….
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Secundum Regulam
According to rule….