in pleading. The introduction of matter into the declaration which tends to increase the amount of damages, but does not affect the right of action it...
A collection of particular persons or items, formed into one body, as a corporation aggregate, which is one formed of a number of natural persons, the...
crim. law. He who begins, a quarrel or dispute, either by threatening or striking another. No man may strike another because he has threatened, or in ...
aggio. This term is used to denote the difference of price beteen the value of bank notes and nominal money, and the coin of the country. - Encyc....
in contrads. The taking of other men"s cattle on one"s own ground at a certain rate. 2 Inst. 643, 4 Inst. 293....
One who takes horses or other animals to agist.2. The agister is not, like an innkeeper, bound to take all horses offered to him, nor is he liable for...
contracts. The taking of another person"s cattle into one"s own ground to be fed, for a consideration to be paid by the owner. The person who receives...
In the sense of the Roman law were those whose propinquity was connected by males only, in the relation of cognates, one or more females were interpos...
in descents. Relations on the father"s side: they are different from the cognati, they being relations on the mother"s side, affines, who are allied b...
in descents. The relation by blood which exists between such males as are descended from the same father, in distinction from cognation or consanguini...
Among the Romans, this name was given to a law, which had for its object, the division among the people of all the lands which had been con- quered, a...
contract. The consent of two or more persons concurring, respecting the transmissiou of some property, right or benefit, with a view of contracting an...
Arable land in the common fields. Cunn. Dict. h. t....
The art of cultivating the earth in order to obtain from it thedivers things it can produce, and particularly what is useful to man, as grain, fruit"s...
The constitution of the United States, art. 8, s. 3, declares, that adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, shall b...
English law. A petition to the court calling in help from another person who has an interest in the matter in dispute. For example, a tenant for life,...
crim. law. Those who assist, aid, or abet the principal, and who areprincipals in the second degree. 1. Russell, 21....
Engl. law. Formerly they were certain sums of money granted by the tenant to his lord in times of difficulty and distress, but, as usual in such cases...
domestic relations. This is a corruption of the French word aieul, grandfather, avus. 3.Bl. Com. 186. ...
That fluid transparent substance which surrounds our globe.2. No property can be had in the air it belongs equally to all men, being indispensable to ...
A conical tube, used in drawing water through an aperture, by the use of which the quantity of water drawn is much increased. When a privilege to draw...
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by the resolution of congress, approved Dece...
Eng. law. When quit rents were reserved payable in silver or white money, they wero called white rents, or blanch farms reditus albi. When they were r...
Span. law. The name of a judicial officer in Spain, and in those countries which have received the body of their laws from those of Spain....
An officer, generally appointed or elected in towns corporate, or cities, possessing various powers in different places. 2. The aldermen of the cities...
civil law. The chance of gain or loss in a contract. This chance results either from the uncertainty of the thing sold, as the effects of a succession...
civil law. A mutual agreement, of which the effects, with respect both to the advantages and losses, whether to all the parties, or to some of them, d...
or aller sans jour, in practice. A French phrase which meansgo without day, and is used to signify that the case has been finally dismissed the court,...
obsolete. A vessel in which hot water was put, for the purpose of dipping a criminal"s arm in it up to the elbow....
pleading. And other wrongs. In trespass, the declaration ought to conclude "and other wrongs to the said plaintiff then and there did, against the pea...
practice. This word is prefixed to the name of a second writ of the same kind issued in the same cause, as, when a summons has been issued and it is r...
in evidence. This is a Latin word which signifies, elsewhere.2. When a person, charged with a crime, proves (se eadem die fuisse alibi,) that he was, ...
persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who has not since been naturalized under their constitution and laws. To this there ar...
The condition or state of alien....
aliene, alien. This is a generic term applicable to the various methods of transfering property from one person to another. Lord Coke, says, (1 Inst. ...
estates. Alienation is an act whereby one man transfers the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, to another. It is commonly a...
med. jur. The term alienation or mental alienation is a generic expression to express the different kinds of aberrations of the human understandiug. D...
Engligh law. An office to which all writs of covenantsand entries are carried for the recovery of fines levied thereon. See Alienate....
One to whom an alienation is made....
Words applied to persons who are subject to the authority ofanother. An infant who is under the authority of his father or guardian, and a wife under ...
He who makes a grant or alienation....
In the Roman and French law this word signifies the food and other things necessary to the support of life, as clothing and the like. The same name is...
The maintenance or support which a husband is bound to give to his wife upon separation from her, or the support which either father or mother isbound...
otherwise. This term is frequently used to point out a difference between two decisions, as, a point of law has been decided in a particular way, in s...
From another place, evidence given aliunde, as, when a will contains an ambiguity, in some cases, in order to ascertain the meaning of the testator, e...
This is a metaphorical expression, to signify that a case agrees in all its circumstances with another case, it goes as it were upon its four legs, as...
A word which the emperors formerly signed at the bottom of their rescripts and constitutions, under other instrumets they usually wrote nata or testat...
The allegations made by a party to a suit, and the proof adduced in their support. It is a general rule of evidence that the allegata and probata must...
English ecclesiastical law. According to the practice of the prerogative court, the facts intended to be relied on in support of the contested suit ar...
common law. The assertion, declaration or statement of a party of what he can prove....
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