criminal law. From ad and alter, another person, a criminal conversation, between a man married to another woman, and a woman married to another man, ...
That which is given by a father to his child or presumptive heir, by anticipation of whathe might inherit. 6 Watts, R. 87, 17 Mass. R. 358, 16 Mass. R...
contracts. Said to take place when, a factor or agent pays to his principal , a sum of, money on the credit of goods belonging to the principal, which...
adventitius. From advenio, what comes incidentally, us adventitia bona, goods that, fall to a man otherwise than by inheritance, or adventitia dos, a ...
bill of. A writing signed by a merchant, to testify that the goods shipped on board a certain vessel are at the venture of another person, he himself ...
crim. law. See Misadventure....
mer. law. Goods sent abroad under the care of a supercargo, to be disposed of to the best advantage for the benefit of his employers, is called an adv...
One who is a party in a writ or action opposed to the other party....
title to lands. The enjoyment of land, or such estate as lies in grant, under such circumstances as indicate that such enjoyment has been commenced an...
A "notice" published either in handbills or in a newspaper.2. The law in many instances requires parties to advertise in order to give notice of acts ...
com. law. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written, when goods are forwarded by sea or land, t...
practice. The opinion given by counsel to their clients, this should never be done but upon mature deliberation to the best of the counsel"s ability, ...
Consideration, deliberation, consultation, as the court holds the case under advisement....
civil and ecclesiastical law. 1. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common...
civil law. This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate, See D...
Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to a...
A pleader, a narrator. Bract. 412 a, 372 b. ...
ecclesiastical law. From advow or advocare, a right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advoc...
contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Te...
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet. Hawk. 1. 2, c. 112....
contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman. Litt. s. 39. Pothier, Traite du Mariage, n. 24...
To plight one"s faith, or give fealty, i. e. fidelity by making oath, &c. Cunn. Dict. h. t....
Eng. law. An oath taken by a lord in parliament....
practice. An oath or affirmation reduced to writing, sworn or affirmed to before some officer who has authority to administer it. It differs from a de...
That connexion between two persons which has neither consanguinity nor affinity, as, the connexion between the hushand"s brother and the wife"s sister...
A connexion formed by marriage, which places the hushand in the same degree of nominal propinquity to the relations of the wife, as that in which she ...
The confirmation of a voidable act, as, for example, when an infant enters into a contract, which is not binding upon him, if, after attaining his ful...
In the English Court of Exchequer, is a day appointed by the judges of the common pleas, and barons of the exchequer, to be held a few days after the ...
practice. One who makes affirmation instead of making oath that the evidence which he is about to give shall be the truth, as if he had been sworn. He...
practice. A solemn declaration and asseveration, which a witness makes before an officer, competent to administer an oath in a like case, to tell the ...
Averring a fact to be true, that which is opposed to negative. (q. v.) 2. It is a general rule of evidence that the affirmative of the issue must be p...
Pleading. An affirmative allegation, implying some negative, in favor of the adverse party, for example, if to an action of assumpsit, which is barred...
Old English law, practice. An ancient practice in trials by jury, which is explained by Bracton, (fo. 185, b. 292 a) and by the author of Fleta, lib. ...
criminal law. The fighting of two or more persons, in some public place, to the terror of the people.2. To constitute this offence there must be, 1st,...
Com. law. The contract by which a vessel or the use of it, is let out to hire. See Freight, General ship....
Before mentioned, already spoken of. This is used for the purpose of identifying a person or thing, as where Peter, of the city of Philadelphia, has b...
crim. law. Premeditated, prepense, the length of time during which the accused has entertained the thought of committing the offence is not very mater...
A right to have the last crop of grass or pasturage. 1 Chit. Pr. 181....
When a statute prohibits a thing to be done, and an action is brought for the breach of the statute, the declaration or indictment must conclude again...
pleadings. In indictments for robbery from the person, the words "feloniously and against the will," must be introduced, no other words or phrase will...
An old word which signifies award. It is used in pleading, as nul agard, no award, ...
The time when the law allows persons to do acts which, for want of years, they were prohibited from doing before. See Coop. Justin. 446.2. For males, ...
oetatis precatio. English law, practise. Wnen an action is brought against an infant for lands which he hath by descent, he may show this to the court...
When a deposition is wanted to be taken on account of the age of a witness, he must be at least seventy years old to be considered an aged witness. Co...
contracts. An agreement, express , or implied, by which one of theparties, called the principal, confides to the other, denominated the agent, the man...
practice. An agent is an attorney who transacts the business of another attorney. 2. The agent owes to his principal the unremitted exertions of his s...
international law. One who is employed by a prince to manage his private affairs, or, those of his subjects in his name, near a foreign, government. W...
contracts. One who undertakes to manage some affair to be transacted for another, by his authority on account of the latter, who is called the princip...
This phrase is used to indicate the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to wbom it is done, as, when a...
crimes, torts. That which increases the enormity of a crime or the injury of a wrong. The opposite of extenuation.2. - When a crime or trespass has be...
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