Tag: descent

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. …

  • Advancement

    English Legal System: Advancement In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Advancement : 1. The power, in a trust, to provide capital sums for the benefit of a person who is an infant or who may (but is not certain to) receive the property […]

  • Advancement

    English Legal System: Advancement In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Advancement : 1. The power, in a trust, to provide capital sums for the benefit of a person who is an infant or who may (but is not certain to) receive the property […]

  • Collatio Bonorum

    Goods. See Collation. A collation of …

  • Collatio Bonorum

    Goods. See Collation. A collation of …

  • 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,…

  • 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,…

  • Collateral Warranty

    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 […]