Tracing

TRACING
A legal proceeding taken under the law of equity where the plaintiff attempts to reclaim specific property, through the court, whether the property is still in the first acquirer's hands or it has passed onto others, ...

Tracing
The attempt, by a plaintiff, to reclaim certain specific property. This is a legal proceeding taken through the court under the law of equity.

Tracing its history back over 1,000 years, the jury system was brought to England by William the Conqueror in 1066.

Blackstone, while tracing in the custom an expiatory design, alludes to analogous Jewish and Greek laws,' which required that what occasions a man's death should be destroyed.

the tracing of the alphabet, sometimes in Latin characters, sometimes in Latin and Greek, sometimes, according to Menard, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, along the limbs of St Andrews cross on the floor of the church, ...

Shepardizing - Method for finding subsequent development of a legal theory by tracing status of a case as legal authority.

These are usually kept on microfilm reels of copies of the original documents, which can be found by tracing the names of owners in the Grantor-Grantee index. These are public information but may require the assistance of an employee to locate.

Method for finding subsequent development of a legal theory by tracing status of a case as legal authority.
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Tracing: Equitable right of a plaintiff to reclaim specific property, through the court, where the property has passed on to others. This procedure is frequently used by a trust beneficiary to recover misappropriated trust property.

See also: Person, Law, Take, Property, Time