Court of Common Pleas. 1. Hist. A superior court having jurisdiction of all real actions and common pleas (i.e., actions between subjects). • The Court was presided over by a chief justice with four (later five) puisne judges. In 1873 it became the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice. In 1881 it […]
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wallia (wahl-ee-[schwa]), n. [Law Latin] Hist. A wall (such as a mound or bank) erected in marshy areas for protection against the sea; a seawall.
erigimus (i-rij-[schwa]-m[schwa]s). [Latin] Hist. We erect. • This was one of the words used in a corporation’s royal charter. See ERECT(2).
cum domibus, aedificiis (k[schwa]m dom-[schwa]-b[schwa]s, ee-di-fish-ee-is). [Law Latin] Scots law. With houses, buildings. • These words in a conveyance included within the conveyance every structure erected on the conveyed land.
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setback, n. Real estate. The minimum amount of space required between a lot line and a building line (a 12-foot setback). • Typically contained in zoning ordinances or deed restrictions, setbacks are designed to ensure that enough light and ventilation reach the property and to keep buildings from being erected too close to property lines.
occupancy. 1. The act, state, or condition of holding, possessing, or residing in or on something; actual possession, residence, or tenancy, esp. of a dwelling or land. • In this sense, the term denotes whatever acts are done on the land to manifest a claim of exclusive control and to indicate to the public that
home. A dwelling place. See FAMILY HOME. manufactured home. Secured transactions. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, that when traveling is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and that is built on a
estover (e-stoh-v[schwa]r). (usu. pl.) 1. Wood that a tenant is allowed to take for fuel, the manufacture or repair of agricultural instruments, and the erection and maintenance of fences and hedges; necessary supplies. See common of estovers under COMMON. — Also termed botes. See BOTE(1). 2. The tenant’s right to obtain that wood. 3. ALIMONY.
spite fence. A fence erected solely to annoy a neighbor, as by blocking the neighbor’s view or preventing the neighbor from acquiring an easement of light (the court temporarily enjoined the completion of the 25-foot spite fence). Cf. LAWFUL FENCE. [Cases: Adjoining Landowners 10; Fences 22; Nuisance 3(12). C.J.S. Adjoining Landowners §§ 68–69, 71, 74;
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter. A torture rack in the Tower of London, named after the Duke of Exeter, Henry VI’s minister who assisted in introducing it to England. — Also termed brake. “The rack … to extort a confession from criminals, is a practice of a different nature …. And the trial by rack is
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