Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases, Volume 1West Publishing Company, 1914 |
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30 Stat accord and satisfaction Act July 24 action actual adverse adverse possession agent alleged amount appeal applied assault assessment assignment Assumption of risk authority bailment bank bankruptcy bill bill of lading bond cause cause of action charge citing claim Code Civ common law constitute construed contract contributory negligence corporation court creditor crime debt deed defendant defined Dict duty employé entitled ex rel fee simple Held injury intent Iowa judgment jury land liability lien liquor means ment Misc mortgage N. Y. Supp negligence offense officer owner party payment person phrase plaintiff possession proceedings providing purchase quoting and adopting railroad risk South statute synonymous Tariff Act July term testator thereof tion trust word
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Page 39 - An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the purpose of lending his name to some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder for value, notwithstanding such holder at the time of taking the instrument knew him to be only an accommodation party.
Page 448 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 483 - ... in the case of a book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph, the two copies of the same required to be delivered or deposited as above shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or from plates made therefrom, or from negatives or drawings on stone made within the limits of the United States, or from transfers made therefrom.
Page 125 - Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it fs the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. SEC. 8.
Page 363 - ... .7 That the act or omission charged as the offense, is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment upon a conviction, according to the right of the case.
Page 297 - Rape is an act of sexual intercourse, accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator, under either of the following circumstances: 1.
Page 138 - Peaceable possession" was described as "such as is continuous, and not interrupted by adverse suit to recover the estate," and " adverse possession " was defined as "an actual and visible appropriation of the land, commenced and continued under a claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another.
Page 26 - The acceptance of a bill is the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer. The acceptance must be in writing and signed by the drawee. It must not express that the drawee will perform his promise by any other means than the payment of money.
Page 77 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which a party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence. § 3. Every other remedy is a special proceeding.
Page 306 - ... his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required expenditures.