Tag: descent
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Acquisition
The act by which a person procures the property of a thing. The thing the property in which is secured. Original acquisition is that by which a man secures a property in a thing which is not at the time he acquires it, and in its then existing condition, the property of any other […]
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Acquisition
The act by which a person procures the property of a thing. The thing the property in which is secured. Original acquisition is that by which a man secures a property in a thing which is not at the time he acquires it, and in its then existing condition, the property of any other […]
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Collateral Kinsmen
Those who descend from one and the same common ancestor, but not from one another. Thus, brothers and sisters are collateral to each other; the uncle and nephew are collateral kinsmen, and cousins are the same. All kinsmen are either lineal or collateral. …
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Collatio Bonorum
Goods. See Collation. A collation of …
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Collatio Bonorum
Goods. See Collation. A collation of …
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Dead Born
A dead-born child is to be considered as if it had never been conceived or born; in other words, it is presumed it never had life, it being a maxim of the common law that mortuus exitus non est exitus. Co. Litt. 29b. See 2 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 35; Domat, liv. prel. tit. 2,…
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Dead Born
A dead-born child is to be considered as if it had never been conceived or born; in other words, it is presumed it never had life, it being a maxim of the common law that mortuus exitus non est exitus. Co. Litt. 29b. See 2 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 35; Domat, liv. prel. tit. 2,…
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Collateral Warranty
Warranty as to an estate made by one who was ancestor to the heir thereof, either actually or by implication of law, in respect to other property, but who could not have been so in respect to the estate in question. Warranty made where the heir’s title to the land neither was nor […]