An ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry. Cowell.KILL, v. To deprive of life; to destroy the life of an animal. The word “homicide” expresses the killing of a human being. See The Ocean Spray, 18 Fed. Cas. 559; Carroll v. White, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 620; Porter v. Hughey, 2 Bibb (Ky.) 232;… Continue Reading KILKETH
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INTER CONJUNCTAS PERSONAS
Between conjunct persons. By tbe act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Conjunct persons are those standing in a certain degree of relationship to each other; such, for example, as brothers,… Continue Reading INTER CONJUNCTAS PERSONAS
INTER PARTES
Between parties. Instruments in which two persons unite, each making conveyance to, or engagement with, the other, are called “papers inter partes.” Smith v. Emery, 12 N. J. Law, 60.
INTER VIVOS
Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transaction is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise. So an ordinary gift from one person to another is called a Ògift inter vivos,Ó to distinguish it from a donation made in.… Continue Reading INTER VIVOS
INTENDED TO BE RECORDED
This phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylvania, it has beeu construed to be a covenant, on the part of the grantor, to procure the deed to be recorded iu a reasonable time.… Continue Reading INTENDED TO BE RECORDED
IN REAL PROPERTY LAW
The transfer of the title of land from one person or class of persons to another. Klein v. McNamara, 54 Miss. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 180, 12 S. W. 595; Brown v. Fitz, 13 N. H. 283 ; Pickett T. Buckner, 45 Miss. 245; Dickerman v. Abrahams, 21 Barb. (N. Y.) 551.… Continue Reading IN REAL PROPERTY LAW
IN PAIS
This phrase, as applied to a legal transaction, primarily means that it hastaken place without legal proceedings. Thus a widow was said to make a request in paisfor her dower when she simply applied to the heir without issuing a writ (Co. Litt. 326.)So conveyances are divided into those by matter of record and those… Continue Reading IN PAIS
IN COMMON LAW
The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society; or his status or situation, considered as a juridicial person, arising from positive law or the institutions of society. Thill v. Pohlman, 70 Iowa, 038, 41 N. W. 3S5. A clause in a contract or agreement which… Continue Reading IN COMMON LAW
HEIRS
A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection withothers,) where it Is intended to pass a fee.
HAILE
In Scotch law. Whole; the whole. “All and haill” are common words inconveyances. 1 Bell, App. Cas. 499.