civil law. The citation or reference to a voucherto support a proposition. Dict. de jurisp., Encyclopedie, mot Allegation, 1 Brown"s Civ. Law, 473, n....
When a suit is instituted in the English ecclesiastical courts, in order to obtain alimony, before it is allowed, an alIegation must be made on the pa...
The tie which binds the citizen to the government, in return for the protection which the government affords him.2. It is natural, acquired, or local....
relationship. The union or connexion of two persons or families by marraiage, which is also called affinity. This is derived from the Latin prepositio...
international law. A contract, treaty, or league between two sovereigns or states, made to insure their safety and common defence.2. Alliances made fo...
maritime law. The running of one vessel against another. It is distiguished from collision in this, that the latter means the running of two vessels a...
Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer, or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Eucy. Lond....
Eng. law. A writ commanding that an allowance be made to an accountant, for such moneys as he has lawfully expended in his office. It is directed to t...
practice. The allowance of a writ, e. g. when a writ of habeas corpus is prayed for, the judge directs it to be done, by writing the word allowed and ...
estates. Signifies an absolute estate of inheritance, in coutradistinction to a feud.2. In this country the title to land is essentially allodial, and...
French law. When a bill of exchange, or other paper, is too small to receive the endorsements which are to be made on it, another piece of paper is ad...
Distribution by lot, partition. Merl. Rep. h. t....
By the laws of, it is believed, all the states, when a poor debtor is in arrest in a civil suit, the plaintiff is compelled to pay an allowance regula...
An inferior metal, used with gold. and silver in making coin or public money. Originally, it was one of the allowances known by the name of remedy for...
The insensible increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves. It is a part of the definit...
international law. A power which has entered into an alliance with another power. A citizen or subject of one of the powers in alliance, is sometimes ...
A table or calendar, in which are set down the revolutions of the seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, the phases of the moon, the most remarka...
Eng. law, Book of Domesday. Such tenants, who have as large an estate as a subject can have. 1 Inst. 1, Bac. Ab Tenure, A....
. In its most extensive sense, this comprehends every species of relief bestowed upon the poor, and, therefore, including all charities. In a more, li...
Eng. law. High treason....
eccl. law. Offerings made on the altar, all profits which accrue to the priest by means of the altar. Ayl. Par. 61, 2 Cro. 516....
An act done upon an instrument in writing by a party entitled under it, without the consent of the other party, by which its meaning or language is ch...
The name of a usage among diplomatists by which the rank and places of different powers, who have the same rights and pretensions to precedence, are c...
The one or the other of two things. In contracts a party has frequently the choice to perform one of several things, as, if he is bound to pay one hun...
civil law. The name of a servitude due by the owner of a house, by which he is restrained from building beyond a certain height. Dig. 8, 2, 4, and 1, ...
civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right, to him who is entitled to it, to build his house as high as he may think proper. In ge...
High and low. This phrase is applied to an agreement made between two contending parties to submit all matters in dispute, alto et basso, to arbitrati...
The high sea. (q. v.)...
civil law. A child which one has nursed, a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14....
The name given to a collection of sea-laws, complied about the end of the eleventh century, by the people of Amalphi. It consists of the laws on marit...
Oe who write another dictates. About the beginning of the sixth century,, the tabellions (q.v.) were known by this name. 1 Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. Age, n. ...
interaational law. A public minister sent abroad by some sovereign state or prince, with a legal commission and authority to transact business on beha...
It is intended by this Latin word, to designate one who plays on both sides, in a legal sense it is taken for a juror or embraceor who takes money fro...
contracts, construction. When au expression has been used in an instrument of writing which may be understood in more than one sense, it is said there...
A phrase used to designate that a man has the power to alter his will or testament as long as he lives. This form of phrase frequently occurs in write...
Responsible, subject to answer in a court of justice liable to punishment....
EngIish law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offence, or for the purpose of making reparation fo...
legislation. An alteration or change of something proposed in a bill.2. Either house of the legislature has a rigt to make amendments, but, when so ma...
practice. The correction, by allowance of the court, of an error committed in the progress of a cause. 2. Amendments at common law, independently of a...
A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly"s Reg. 81.2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and b...
practice. A pecuniary penalty imposed upon a person who is in misericordia, as, for example, when the defendant se retaxit, or recessit in contemptum ...
English law. A pecuniary punishment arbitrarily imposed by some lord or count, in distinction from a fine which is expressed according to the statute....
A friend, or, as it is written in old works, amy. Vide Prochein amy....
Pennsylvania practice. An action entered by agreement of parties on the dockets of the courts, when entered, such action is considered as if it, had b...
practice. A friend of the court. One, who as a stander by, when a judge is doubtful or mistaken in a matter of law, may inform the court. 2 Inst. 178,...
government. An act of oblivion of past offences, granted by the government to those who have been guilty of any neglect or crime, usually upon conditi...
contracts, English law. An alienation of lands or tenements in mortraain. 2 Stat. Ed. I. 2. The reduction of the property of lands or tenements to mor...
contracts. To alien lands in mortmain....
In corporations and companies, is the act of removing an officer from his office, it differs from disfranchisement, which is applicable to members, as...
tort. An amotion of possession from an estate, is an ouster which happens by a species of disseisin or turning out of the legal propritor before his e...
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