culprit. 1. A person accused or charged with the commission of a crime. 2. A person who is guilty of a crime. • Culprit may be a running together of cul, shortened from the Latin culpabilis (“guilty”), and prit, from Old French prest (“ready”), two words formerly used to orally plead at the outset of […]
Michaelmas sittings (mik-[schwa]l-m[schwa]s). In England, a term of court running from November 2 to November 25. • Until 1875, this was also called the Michaelmas term. The division of the legal year into terms was abolished by the Judicature Act of 1873. Cf. EASTER SITTINGS; HILARY SITTINGS; TRINITY SITTINGS.
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alluvion ([schwa]-loo-vee-[schwa]n). [fr. Latin alluvio “flood”] Roman & civil law. 1. Strictly, the flow or wash of water against a shore or riverbank. 2. An accumulation of soil, clay, or other material deposited by water; esp., in land law, an addition of land caused by the buildup of deposits from running water, the added land
range, n. Land law. In U.S. government surveys, a strip of public land running due north to south, consisting of a row of townships, at six-mile intervals. — Abbr. R. [Cases: Public Lands 25. C.J.S. Public Lands § 32.]
interruption. A break in the period of possession of land, possibly ending a claim to ownership by prescriptive right. legal interruption. Louisiana law. A break in the running of prescription that occurs when the property’s possessor acknowledges another person’s ownership rights, or the owner (or obligor) sues the possessor (or obligor).La. Civ. Code arts. 3462,
covenant appurtenant 随土地转移的合同(条款)(=covenant running with (the) land)
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