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opera-glass hand (medicine) and RESULTING USE, estates (law)


opera-glass hand (medicine)


opera-glass hand


A deformity of the hand seen in chronic absorptive arthritis, the fingers and wrists being shortened and the covering skin wrinkled into transverse folds; the phalanges appear to be retracted into one another like an opera glass or miniature telescope.

Synonym: main en lorgnette.


RESULTING USE, estates (law)


RESULTING USE, estates. One which having been limited by deed, expires or cannot vest; it then returns back to him who raised it, after such cannot vest; it then returns back to him who raised it, after such expiration, or during such impossibility. expiration, or during such impossibility. 2. When the legal seisin and possession of land is transferred by any 2. When the legal seisin and possession of land is transferred by any common law conveyance, and no use is expressly declared, nor any common law conveyance, and no use is expressly declared, nor any consideration nor evidence of intent to direct the use, such use shall consideration nor evidence of intent to direct the use, such use shall result back to the original owner of the estate; for in such case, it cannot result back to the original owner of the estate; for in such case, it cannot be supposed that it was intended to give away the estate. 2 Bl. Com. 335; be supposed that it was intended to give away the estate. 2 Bl. Com. 335; Cruise, Dig. t. 11, c. 4, s. 20, et seq.; Bac. Tracts, Read. on Stat. of Cruise, Dig. t. 11, c. 4, s. 20, et seq.; Bac. Tracts, Read. on Stat. of Use' s, 351; Co. Litt. 23, a.; Id. 271, a; 2 Binn. R. 387; 3 John. R. 396. Use' s, 351; Co. Litt. 23, a.; Id. 271, a; 2 Binn. R. 387; 3 John. R. 396.