The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of partof such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract. Ilowe v. Hayward, 108 Mass. […]

These are the monies that a person is able to earn that results from skills and training.

This term is used to denote a larger class of credits than would be includedin the term “wages.” Somers v. Keliher, 115 Mass. 105; Jenks v. Dyer, 102 Mass. 235.The […]

The amount of net income earned by a company, after PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS have been distributed, which is attributable to each outstanding share of COMMON STOCK . The EPS measure […]

Soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, in distinction fromthe firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough- keepsie, 75 N. Y. 70.

A right in the owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such ownership,to use the land of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general property […]

This phrase means a proper or a pure easement that passes to new owner by inheritance or purchase.

This when another person’s property has been used for a long period of time and is not obtained legally but by custom.

the right given to use a pathway or a road to a property that belongs to another person to give access to a road.

State, 11 Ark. 491; Atchison St. It. Co. v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.. 31 Kan. 661, 3 Pac. 284; Orr v. Quimby, 54 N. H. 613. 7. In the law […]

In the customs laws of the United States , the term “countries east of theCape of Good Hope” means countries with which, formerly, the United States ordinarilycarried on commercial intercourse […]

The name of a royal manor in the county of Keut, England;mentioned In royal grants or patents, as descriptive of the tenure of free socage.

The East India Company was originally established forprosecuting the trade between England and India, which they acquired a right to carryon exclusively. Since the middle of the last century, however, […]

A feast of the Christian church held in memory of our Saviour’sresurrection. The Greeks and Latins call it “pascha,” (passovcr.) to which Jewish feastour Easter answers. This feast has beeu […]

A coin struck by Richard II. which is supposed to have given rise to the name of “sterling,” as applied to English money.

This word, when used alone, will be construed to mean “due east.” Butthat is a rule of necessity growing out of the indeliniteness of the term, and lias 110application where […]

An easterly coast or country.

In criminal practice. Words used on the acquittal of adefendant, that lie may yu thence without a day, i. e., be dismissed without any furthercontinuance or adjournment .

Any place where food or refreshments of any kind, not includingspirits, wines, ale, beer, or other malt liquors, are provided for casual visitors, and soldfor consumption therein. Act Cong. July […]

The edge of a roof, built so as to project over the walls of a house, in orderthat the rain may drop therefrom to the ground instead of running down […]

The drip or dropping of water from the eaves of a house on the land of anadjacent owner; the easement of having the water so drip, or the servitude ofsubmitting […]

In English criminal law . The offense of listening under walls orwindows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frameslanderous and mischievous tales. 4 […]

An expression used formerly in this country to denote the limits ofadmiralty jurisdiction . See United States v. Aborn, 3 Mason, 127, Fed. Cas. No. 14,418;Hale v. Washington Ins. Co., […]

In old English law . Ebb. Ebba ct ftuctus; ebb and flow of tide; ebb andflood. Bract, fols. 255, 338. The time occupied by one ebb and flood was ancientlygranted […]

In ecclesiastical law . An officer in cathedral churches whosupervised the regular performance of divine service , and prescribed the particularduties of each person in the choir.