Eng. law. Copyholders and customary tenants are sometimes so called. Calth. on Copyh. 51, 54....
Slavery....
The name of a writ addressed to the sheriff, when a writ of error has been brought, commanding that the person against whom judgment has been obtained...
The name of a special writ of jail delivery, which formerly issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 Bl. Com. 270....
contrads. A premium paid to a grantor or vendor, as, e. g. the bank paid a bonus to the state for its charter. A consideration given for what is recei...
A general name given to every literary composition which is printed, but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.2. The copyright, (q...
English law. Land, also called charter-land, which was held by deed under certain rents and fee services, and differed in nothing from free socage lan...
commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, kee...
war. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, ...
An incorporated town, so called in the charter. It is less than a city. 1 Mann. & Gran. 1, 39 E. C. L. R. 323....
English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively to the English law. 2. It is a custom, in many ancient boroughs, by which the youngest son...
contracts. He to whom a thing is lent at his request.2. The contract of loan confers rights, and imposes duties on the borrower 1. In general, he has ...
Eng. law. That food which wood and trees yield to cattle....
contracts A recompense, satisfaction, amends, profit or advantage : hence came the word man-bote, denoting a compensation for a man slain, house-bote,...
or bootless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success....
maritime law. A contract, in nature of a mortgage of a ship, on which the owner borrows money to enable him to fit out the ship, or to purchase a carg...
contracts. An instrument in writing, given by a broker to the seller of merchandise, in which it is stated that the goods therein mentioned have been ...
Sheriffs officers, who serve writs and make arrests, they are so called because they are bound to the sheriff for the due execution of their office. 1...
estates. By this term is understood in general, every separation, natural or artificial, which marks the confines or line of division of two contiguou...
A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by the government, to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do to the publi...
As much land as one ox can plough....
This is a metaphorical expression, which designates, in the genealogy of a numerous family, a portion of that family which has sprang from the same ro...
Those solid parts of trees which grow above the trunk.2. In general the owner of a tree is the owner of the branches, but when they grow beyond his li...
A spirituous liquor made of wine by distillation. See stat. 22 Car. H. c. 4....
contract, torts. The violation of an obligation, engagement or duty, as a breach of covenant is the non-performance or violation of a covenant, the br...
A violation of public order, the offence of disturbing the public peace. One guilty of this offence may be held to bail for his good behaviour. An act...
An unlawful escape out of prison. This is of itself a misdemeanor. 1 Russ. Cr. 378, 4 Bl. Com. 129 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 18, s. 1 7 Conn. 752. The remedy f...
The wilful misappropriation, by a trustee, of a thing which had been lawfully delivered to him in confidence.2. The distinction between larceny and a ...
pleading. That part of the declaration in which the violation of the defendants contract is stated.2. It is usual in assumpsit to introduce the statem...
Parting or dividing by force and violence a solid substance, or piercing, penetrating, or bursting through the same.2. In cases of burglary and house-...
The act of forcibly removing the fastenings of a house, so that a person may enter.2. It is a maxim that every mans house is his castle, and it is pro...
med. juris. The air expelled from the chest at each expiration.2. Breathing, though a usual sign of life, is not conclusive that a child was wholly bo...
civil law. Persons appointed to take care of houses destined to receive foundlings. Clef des Lois Rom. mot Administrateurs....
practice. A writ in which the cause of action is briefly stated, hence its name. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 13, 25, Co. Lit. 73 b. 2. Writs are distributed in...
A writ of right. (q. v.)...
feudal law. A declaration by a superior lord to his vassal, made in the presence of the pares curias, by which he gave his consent to the grant of lan...
In France, a brevet is a warrant granted by the government to authorize an individual to do something for his own benefit, as a brevet dinvention, is ...
writs. They were called brevia, because of the brevity in which the cause of action was stated in them....
This name is given to a number of writs, which are also called writs of prevention. See Quia Ti. met....
Eng law. The collection of writs found in the Registrum Brevium was so called. The author of Fleta says, these writs were formed upon their cases. The...
Subsidiary process issued pending a suit, or process issued in execution of the judgment. They varied, says the author of Fleta, according to the vari...
These were writs formed by the masters in chancery, pursuant to the stat. West. 2, c. 24. They vary according to the diversity of cases and complaints...
The name of a code of laws of Alaric II., king of the Visigoths....
Eng. law. A writ or mandate directed to a sheriff, commanding him to deliver to his successor the county and the appurtenances, with all the briefs, r...
crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission, or of some illegal emolument...
crim. law. The receiving or offering any undue reward by or to any person whomsoever, whose ordinary profession or business relates to the administrat...
One that pilfers other mens goods, a thief. See 28 E. II., c. 1....
A building constructed over a river, creek, or other stream, or ditch or other place, in order to facilitate the passage over the same. 3 Harr. 108.2....
eccl. law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, (q. v.) which are scaled ...
practice. An abridged statement of a partys case.2. It should contain : 1st. A statement of the names of the parties, and of their residence and occup...
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