ITY

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Definition
"ITY" is not a recognized legal term. The source material retrieved under this entry heading consists of unrelated fragments drawn from Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Rapalje & Lawrence — portions of entries for collateral consanguinity, dangerous instrumentality, mortgage, and libel — none of which correspond to a standalone legal term "ITY." This appears to be a truncated or corrupted query. No legal doctrine, rule, maxim, term of art, or procedural concept is identified by the isolated suffix "-ity" in either common law or civil law traditions. ---
Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering "ITY" as an apparent entry label in a digitized historical dictionary corpus should treat it as an indexing or OCR artifact. Historical law dictionaries were frequently digitized from physical volumes with damaged spines, cropped pages, or broken type, which can cause a terminal fragment of one word — such as the suffix of "consanguinity," "instrumentality," or "liability" — to be captured as a standalone headword. If you are researching one of the terms partially visible in the recovered source fragments, the relevant entries are: - COLLATERAL CONSANGUINITY (relationship between persons sharing a common ancestor but not descending from one another — the subject of the Bouvier and Rapalje & Lawrence fragments) - DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITY (the doctrine imposing liability on a master for harm caused by dangerous instrumentalities under his control — the subject of the second Bouvier fragment) - MORTGAGE (the subject of the Rapalje & Lawrence etymology fragment) - LIBEL (in the admiralty and ecclesiastical practice sense — the subject of the final Bouvier fragment) Reconstruct the full intended headword before proceeding. Cross-check the page range or alphabetical position in the original volume to identify which "-ity" term was cut. ---
Historical Dictionary Support
The five fragments attributed to this entry heading are internally coherent as portions of legitimate historical entries but bear no relationship to one another or to any term "ITY." Bouvier's treatment of collateral consanguinity follows Blackstone's Commentaries Book II. The dangerous instrumentality passage cites a Kentucky appellate decision. The mortgage fragment in Rapalje & Lawrence is a Norman-French etymology note. The libel fragment addresses admiralty and ecclesiastical pleading practice. None supports the existence of "ITY" as a discrete legal concept. Historical legal dictionaries of both the Bouvier and Rapalje & Lawrence period did not use suffix-only headwords. Any such entry in a digital corpus is a digitization error, not a genuine historical entry. ---
Related Terms
COLLATERAL CONSANGUINITY — DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITY — MORTGAGE — LIBEL (Admiralty) — CONSANGUINITY — LIABILITY
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary • 1928
That relationship which subsists be- tween persons who have the same ancestors but not the same descendants,-who do not descend one from the other. 2 Bla. Com. 203. The essential fact of consanguinity (common an- cestral blood) is the same in lineal and collateral consanguinity; but the relationship is aside from the direct line. Thus, father, son, and grandson are lineally related; uncle and nephew, collaterally.
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary • 1928
The rule of "dangerous instrumen- tality" requires the master to exercise a proper degree of care to guard, control, and protect dangerous instrumentalities owned or operated by him, and to respond in damages for an injury incurred by the im- proper use of such an instrumentality by a servant, though not then engaged in the performance of his duties. 163 Ky. 770, 174 S. W. 791.
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Rapalje & Lawrence • 1888
The relationship between persons interest for a specified period, but makes who are descended from the same ancestor the right of enjoyment to depend on some (brothers, cousins, &c.), as opposed to lineal Kent. Com. 128. collateral event, as an estate to A. till cousanguinity, which exists between perB. shall go to Rome. Park Dow. 163; 4 sons of whom one is descended from the other (father and son, grandfather and grandson, &c.) See CONSANGUINITY; DE- CURSITORS.-Clerks in the Chancery office, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were, of course, de cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by Stat. 5 and 6 Will. IV. c. 82. Spence Eq. 238; 4 Inst. 82. CURSONES TERRÆ. - Ridges of land. Cowell. CURSOR.-An inferior officer of the papal court. Cursus curiæ est lex curie (3 Bulst. 53): The practice of the court is the law of the court.

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