Tag: AS

  • Assize, Petty

    Definition of Assize, Petty The assizes of darrein presentment, mort d’ancestor, novel disseisin, and utrum. Abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize, Petty in the Dictionaries, Assize, Petty in […]

  • Assize Rents

    Definition of Assize Rents Fixed and certain rents Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Rents in the Dictionaries, Assize Rents in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

  • Assize Utrum

    Definition of Assize Utrum A real action for trying the question whether land was a lay fee or held in frankalmoign Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Utrum in the Dictionaries, Assize Utrum in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]

  • Associates

    Definition of Associates Officers of the common law Courts, who were appointed by and held office at the pleasure of the Chief Justice or Chief Baron of each Court, and whose duties were to keep the records of the Court, to attend Nisi Prius sittings, make out the list of cases, conduct the […]

  • Association, Articles Of

    Definition of Association, Articles Of Regulations for the management and internal arrangement of a company. The Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, gives in Table A a specimen set of articles applicable to the case of a company limited by shares Browse You might be interested in these […]

  • Association, Memorandum Of

    Definition of Association, Memorandum Of Seven or more persons (or, for a private company, two or more persons) may by subscribing their names to a memorandum and otherwise complying with the statutory requirements as to registration, form an incorporated company with or without limited […]

  • Assumpsit

    Definition of Assumpsit He promised or undertook. It was a common law action which grew out of the action of trespass on the case. It was brought for the breach of an undertaking, a cause of action analagous to deceit. It gradually supplanted the action of debt and came into general use for […]

  • Assurance

    Definition of Assurance A surrender, conveyance, assignment or appointment under a power, of property Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assurance in the Dictionaries, Assurance in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the […]

  • Assure

    Definition of Assure To convey or transfer property Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assure in the Dictionaries, Assure in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, […]

  • Astley V. Younge

    Definition of Astley V. Younge ((1759), 2 Burr. 807). Held, that no action will lie against a defendant in a lawsuit for words only spoken in his own defence, and by way of justification in law, and in a legal and judicial way. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]