A special act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, Such as, treason a...
merc. law. An account containing in detail the names of the items which compose a parcel or package of goods, it is usually transmitted with the goods...
practice. A detailed informal statement of a plaintiff is cause of action, or of the defendantss set-off. 2. In all actions in which the plaintiff dec...
contracts. A written obligation, by which a debtor acknowledges himself indebted in a certain sum, may one hundred dollars, and for the payment of the...
Eng. law. A process issued out of the court against an attorney, who is privileged from arrest, instead of process demanding bail. 3 Bl. Com. 289....
In the mayors court, London, the claim made by a third person to the subject-matter in dispute between two others in a suit there, is called bill of P...
Eng. law. The name of a license granted at the custom house to a merchant, authorizing him to trade from one English port to another without paying cu...
English law. A statute passed in the reign of William and Mary, so called, because it declared the true rights of British subjects. W. & M. stat. 2, c...
Contracts. An agreement in writing, under seal, by which a man transfers the right or interest he has in goods and cbattels, to another. As the law im...
English commercial law. When a merchant is ignorant of the real quantities or qualities of any goods consigned to him, so that he is unable to make a ...
contracts. A writing by which one person or more, promises to another or others, to pay him or them a sum of money at a time therein specified, withou...
English commercial law. A license granted by custom house officers to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, fr...
A true bill is an indictment approved of by a grand jury. Vide Billa Vera, True Bill....
Engagements which a merchant has entered into in writing, and which he is to pay on their becoming due. Pard. n. 85....
Commerce. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, bonds, and other evidences or securities which a merchant or trader holds, and which are payable to him...
practice. When the proceedings of the courts were recorded in Latin, and the grand jury found a bill of indictment to be supported by the evidence, th...
Of two parts. This term is used in conveyancing as, this indenture bipartite, between A, of the one part, and B, of the other part. But when there are...
or BIRRETUS. A cap or coif used formerly in England, by judges and sergeants at law. Spelm. h. t., Cunn. Dict. Vide Coif....
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete. 5 C. & P...
domestic relations. A corruption of the French word besaieul, the father of the grandfather or grandmother. In Latin he is called proavus. Inst. 3, 6,...
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishops assistant. Happily for this country, these officers a...
eccl. law. The extent of country over which a bishop has jurisdiction a see, a diocese. For their origin, see Francis Duarenus de sacris Eccles. Minis...
The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, in order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. It is called bissextile...
An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edw. III. It has always been deemed of the highest authority in matters concerning the admiralty. It contains...
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters, &c....
When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or ...
The same as white rent. (q. v.)...
A space left in writing to be filled, up with one or more words, in order to make sense. 1. In what cases the ambiguity occasioned by blanks not fille...
pleading. The same with that called a common bar, whicb, in an action of trespass, is put in to oblige the plaintiff to assign the certain place where...
contrad. An indorsement which does not mention the name of the person in whose favor it is made, it is usually made by writing the name of the indorse...
crim. law. To attribute to God that which is contrary to his nature, and does not belong to him, and to deny what does or it is a false reflection utt...
One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing. 2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others. Carth. 53, Barn. 19, 23, 3...
international law. The actual investment of a port or place by a hostile force fully competent to cut off all communication therewith, so arranged or ...
kindred. This word, in the law sense, is used to signify relationship, stock, or family, as, of the blood of the ancestor. 1 Roper on Leg. 103, 1 Supp...
mer. law. A book among merchants, in which entries of sales, &c. are first made.2. This book, containing the original entries, is received in evidence...
This word is used to designate all the magistrates of a city or borough, or all the managers or directors of any institution, as, the board of alderme...
A used in Vermont. This board is composed of the selectmen and justices of the peace of their respective towns. They are authorized to abate taxes, an...
Eng. law. The name of an ancient allodial tenure, which was exempt from feudal services. Bac. Ab. Gavelkind, A Spelmans English Works, vol. 2, 233....
A person.2. In practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to b...
government, corporations. When applied to the government this phrase signifies the state.2. As to the persons who compose the body politic, they take ...
A term used to denote the water which arises from a salt well, belonging to one who has no right to the soil. Ejectment may be maintained for it. 2 Hi...
goods and chattels. In the Roman law, it signifies every kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, but chiefly it was applied to real estates, chat...
In or with good faith.2. The law requires all persons in their transactions to act with good faith and a contract where the parties have not acted bon...
Good behaviour....
Movable goods, personal property....
Engl. ecclesiastical law. Notable goods. When a person dies having at the time of his death, goods in any other diocese, besides the goods in the dioc...
Perishable goods.2. An executor, administrator, or trustee, is bound to use due diligence in disposing of perishable goods, such as fattened cattle, g...
Goods to which no one claims a property, as, shipwrecks, treasure trove, &c., vacant goods....
Goods waived or thrown away by a thief, in his flight, for fear of being apprehended....
contract. An obligation or bond is a deed whereby the obligor, obliges himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money...
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