a levy on the right of a person to receive property that is left to them in a will.

the succession that occurs as a result of a clause in a will.

a situation where there are no known claimants or heirs to property left by a deceased person.

One who succeeds to the rights or the place of another: particularly, the person or persons who constitute a corporation after the death or removal of those who preceded them […]

In Scotch law. The whole lands astricted to a mill; that is, the lands of which the tenants are obliged to send their grain to that mill. Bell.

a principle that states a person may be cleared of negligence if he encounters a danger that is not of his own making.

In the common-law definition of manslaughter , this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation . It means that the provocation must arise […]

a phrase that describes a violent act that is committed without any premeditation but in a circumstance of great emotional disturbance .

See sudden emergency doctrine .

To prosecute by law; to commence legal proceedings against a party. It is ap- plied almost exclusively to the institution and prosecution of a civil action . See Chal- lenor […]

Clause requiring the insured to make all attempts to protect any property that is salvageable.

Insured’s costs in diminishing or averting losses that can be recovered from the insurer.

In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or town used for cultivation or planting as a garden, vineyard or […]

To sufTer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. […]

Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right.

Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.

A recovery was effected by the party wishing to convey the land suffering a fictitious action to be brought against him by the party to whom the land was to […]

As to sufficient ” Consideration ” and “Evidence,” see those titles.

the term for having sufficient reason to remove an official from his job.

a term that is used to describe the evidence that is adequate enough to justify the bringing of a law suit.

a term that means to cut off a person’s ability to breathe or to use an asphyxiating gas.

Bishops who in former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops […]

A vote; the act of voting; the right or privilege of casting a vote at public elections. The last is the meaning of the term in such phrases as “the […]

Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting iu the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase […]

Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, is suggestio falsi ; […]