...whereof a man hath some employment in the affairs of another, as of the king, or of another person," or "a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public as those of magistrates, or private as of bailiffs, receivers,...

...incidental. Platt, J., 20 Johns. JÎ. 493. A station or employment conferred by election of the people. A right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereto belonging. 2 Bl. Com. 30. 1 Crabb'sReal Prop. 431, § 530. A species of incorporeal hereditament....

...statement of the law, so far as relates to offices, Mr. Cruise, in his Digest, defines an office to be ' a right to exercise a public or private employment,...hereditaments, and classed under the head of real property. If an office be granted to a person quamdiu se Ьепе gesamt, the grantee has an estate for life....

...to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it." In Cruise's Digest, Vol. III., p. 92, it is said, "an office is a right to exercise a public or private...to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it." A similar definition is given in 2 Bl. Comm. 36. The word office is manifestly comprehensive enough...

...the law of England, in both cases, seems to correspond with the Roman. (</)" V. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal (•) Ibid. 03, («) Lord Rajm. 725. 1 Brownl. 212. 2 Show....

...in common law rules. It is said by BLACKSTONE, in his Commentaries, Vol. 2, p. 36, that offices are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, and arc also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates,...

...Blachstone's definition of an office is amply sufficient to comprise this situation (b) ; he styles it " a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." In Heywooifs Election Cases, p. 65, it is observed, " that by the 18 Geo. 2,...

...road. A right of way can only be used according to the grant, or the occasion from which it arises. An office is a right to exercise a public or private...land or exerciseable within a particular district or relating to land, are deemed incorporeal hereditaments, and classed under the head of real property....

...point ; but thisoffice is an hereditament : 2 Black. Com. p. 36, whera it is said, " Offices which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the feesand emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments." (He also referred to pp....

...Blackstone, at p. 86 of the same volume, gives a definition of an " office." He says : " Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal Hereditaments, whe- r*iio ther public, as those of magistrates,...