Search results for: “abandoned land”
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Pro
For, in respect of. On account of; in behalf of.
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Escheat
The reversion of property to the state as the ultimate proprietor of land, by reason of the lack of anyone to inherit it. An incident of tenure arising out of the feudal system whereby the escheated estate , on the death without heirs of the person last seized, escheats […]
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Cognoscere
Concept of “Cognoscere” Traditional meaning of cognoscere in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) To acknowledge. Cognovit actionem (he has acknowledged the action), or cognovit: a written confession of the […]
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Cognoscere
Concept of “Cognoscere” Traditional meaning of cognoscere in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) To acknowledge. Cognovit actionem (he has acknowledged the action), or cognovit: a written confession of the […]
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Guerpi
Concept of “Guerpi” Traditional meaning of guerpi in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) Abandoned; deserted. Resources Notes and References Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, […]
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Baldio
In Spanish law. Vacant land having no particular owner, and usually abandoned to the public for the purposes of pasture. The word is supposed to be derived from the Arabic bait, signifying a thing of little value. For the legislation on this subject, see Escriche, Die. Raz. …
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Baldio
In Spanish law. Vacant land having no particular owner, and usually abandoned to the public for the purposes of pasture. The word is supposed to be derived from the Arabic bait, signifying a thing of little value. For the legislation on this subject, see Escriche, Die. Raz. …
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Double Actionability
Double Actionability in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a definition of Double Actionability, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: The former English common law rule of conflict of laws in tort, whereby a suit […]
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Double Actionability
Double Actionability in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a definition of Double Actionability, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: The former English common law rule of conflict of laws in tort, whereby a suit […]
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Appanage
What does Appanage mean in American Law? The definition of Appanage in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: Land or some other source of revenue assigned to a member of a ruler’s family. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology […]
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Accession
To Property. The right to all which one’s own property produces, whether that property be movable or immavable, including the increase of animals, and the right to that which is so united to it, either naturally i or artificially, as not to be readily separable. See 45 Vt. 4; 2 Kent, […]
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Benefit Of Clergy
Originally, the exemption from the abolition in 1827.
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Derelict, Dereliction
The terms are used chiefly in maritime law and denote a boat or vessel found deserted, or abandoned on the seas, whether it arose from accident or necessity or voluntary dereliction. See The Laun berga, 154 F. 959. In order to constitute derelict the vessel must be abandoned without hope of […]