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who receives no such commission as
that given to a judge, 623.
A judicial salary is a compensation for
services rendered, and must be secured
during the continuance of the commis-
sion; but may be reduced when the
office is vacant, 621.
As to the amount, duration of, and appro-
priation of a judicial salary, 676.
A judicial salary cannot be sold or mort-
gaged, 621.
A table exhibiting a comparative view of
the amount of judicial salaries, 679.
The duties of judge of the land office and
those of chancellor exercised by the
same judicial officer, 648; Cunning-
ham v. Browning, 309.
JUDGMENT.
At common law as between party and
party, a judgment binds from the first
day of the term; but as against third
persons it only operates as a lien upon
the real estate from the day on which it
is signed, and upon the personalty from
the day on which the fieri facias is put
into the hands of the sheriff. — Jones v.
Jones, 448.
A judgment in favour of the State ope-
rates as a lien upon lands from the com-
mencement of the suit, 445.
An absolute judgment against an execu-
tor or administrator is conclusive evi-
dence of a sufficiency of assets. — Dor-
sey v. Hammond, 472.
JURISDICTION.
A power given by will to appoint com-
missioners to make partition cannot au-
thorize the chancellor to proceed ex
parte. — Howard's case, 367.
The case as set forth in the bill must ap-
pear at the hearing to be of such a na-
ture as to fall within the jurisdiction of
a court of chancery. — Estep v. Wat-
kins, 489.
Consent cannot give jurisdiction where
the court has none. — Iglehart v. Armi-
ger, 528.
A ship in the harbour of Annapolis was
held to be within the jurisdiction of the
colonial court of vice admiralty. — Hast-
ings v. Plater, 613.
LAND
In England all land held directly or indi-
rectly of the king— the mode of obtain-
ing an estate of inheritance, or a lease
for years of the king. —Cunningham v.
Browning, 301—303.
No land can be absolutely revested in the
king, or the title of any one in posses-
sion devested without office found, 302.
The discoverer of escheatable land usu-
ally rewarded with a lease thereof, 803.
The lord proprietary absolute owner of
the soil which he sold or gave to indi-
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viduals in parcels, from whom they
were continually reverting by their fait
ing to comply with the terms of sale,
or by forfeiture or escheat, 305, 80®.
Formerly in all, and now in some particu-
lar cases, an inquest of office was ne-
cessary to revest in the proprietary or in
the Stele lands which had been granted
to individuals, 306.
The discoverer of escheatable land is re-
warded with a portion of its value, 307.
The acts of confiscation invested the State
with the title to the lands without office
found, 307.
The State takes all land subject to the in-
dividual rights which had been acquired
from the lord proprietary, 807.
Office found necessary to de vest a title
held by an alien, &c. 307.
The mode of obtaining a patent grant of
land from the land office, 3«§— 826;
Hopper v. Coleston, 323.
Origin and nature of the land office as con-
nected with the court of chancery, 808.
The five different kinds of land warrants,
310; Fowler v. Goodwin, 828.
Proceedings on an application lor land in
the land office, other than those under a
caveat, 314.
The grantee is entitled to whatever falls
within the tract described in his patent;
and therefore is entitled to alluvion,
accretions, and insular formations. —
Ridgely v. Johnson, 316.
A sufficient description gives an incipient
legal title, and before a patent issues it
is an imperfect legal right, not an equi-
table interest. — Cunningham v. Brown-
ing, 324.
A patent gives a perfect legal title, which,
by relation, takes effect from the com-
mencement of the incipient title, 825.
What is deemed a sufficient description so
as to be regarded as a binding incipient
title, 327; Fowler v. Goodwin, 327.
An explanation of the terra location as
applied to land, 329.
LEGACY.
An annual sum given for maintenance
takes effect from the death of the testa-
tor. — Rebecca Owings' case, 200.
The bequest of an annual sum charged
upon land in the hands of the holder is
a legacy, the payment of which equity
will enforce, 296.
Where a person is about to make his will
devising his property to a person, and
another prevents it by 'promising to
convey the property or pay the money,
and the testator in consequence thereof
does not so make his will, the promise
is valid and may be enforced. — Cole-
gate D. Owings' case, 404.
LIEN.
A judgment at common law operates, as
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