D. dialogue; as, Dr. and Stud. D. 2, c. 24, or Doctor and Student, dialogue 2, chapter 24.D. dictum; D. Digest of Justinian.D. The Digest or Pandects ...
C. Codes, the Code of Justinian. C. Code. C. Chancellor.C.& A. Cooke and Alcock's Reports.C.B. Communi Banco, or Common Bench.C.C. Circuit Cou...
B, b, is used to point out that a number, used at the head of a page to denote the folio, is the second number of the same volume.B. B. Bail Bond.B. ...
ABBREVIATIONS and abbreviated references. The following list, though necessarily incomplete, may be useful to some readers. A, a, the first letter of ...
ABATOR is, 1st, he who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2, he who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an hei...
ABATEMENT OF A FREEHOLD. The entry of a stranger after the death of the ancestor, and before the heir or devisee takes possession, by which the rightf...
ABANDONMENT, malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation.2....
ABANDONMENT. In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents hav...
AB INITIO, from the beginning.2. When a man enters upon lands or into the house of another by authority of law, and afterwards abuses that authority, ...
A, the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q. v.) and also in the marks of schedules or pape...