Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the tim...
evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact.2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and im...
persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted. Vide Tales de circumstandibus....
torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. Tech. Dict. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17,...
civil law. The name of a citation, which issued when a party died pending a suit, against the heir of the defendant, or when the plaintiff died, for t...
practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent, jurisdiction, commanding a person therein named to appear and do something therein mentioned, or ...
The production or reference to the text of acts of legislatures and of treatises, and decided cases, in order to support what is advanced. 2. Works ar...
persons. One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, has a right to vote for representatives in congress, and other public officers...
government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same governme...
This word has various significations. 1. It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and r...
In New York, actions are divided only into two kinds, namely, criminal and civil. A criminal action is prosecuted by the state, as a party, against a ...
Lord Mansfield defines a civil commotion to be "an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to rebellion where there ...
persons. The change of the state (q. v.) of a person who is declared civilly dead by judgment of a competent tribunal. In such case, the person agains...
The municipal code of the Romans is so called. It is a rule of action, adopted by mankind in a state of society. It denotes also the municipal law of ...
The sum which is yearly paid by the state to its monarch, and the domains of which he is suffered to have the enjoyment....
Civil law. One which binds in law, vinculum juris, and which may be enforeed in a court of justice. Poth. Obl. 173, and 191. See Obligation....
The constitution of the United States, art. 2, s. 4, provides, that the president, vice-president, and civil officers of the United States, shall be r...
practice. This term is used in opposition to the remedy given by indictment in a criminal case, and signifies the remedy which the law gives to the pa...
The union of individual men in civil society under a system of laws and a magistracy, or magistracies, charged with the administration of the laws. It...
A doctor, professor, or student of the civil law....
Civilly; opposed to criminaliter or criminally. 2. When a person does an unlawful act injurious to another, whether with or without an intention to co...
Civilly dead; one who is considered as if he were naturally dead, go far as his rights are concerned....
A claim is a challenge of the ownership of a thing which a man has not in possession, and is wrongfully withheld by another. Plowd. 359; Wee i Dall.44...
In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the Dame of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten case...
That which is done in secret and contrary to law. 2.Generally a clandestine act in case of the limitation of actions will prevent the act from running...
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry H., of England, in a parliament holden at Clarendon, by which the king...
The order according to which are arranged or distributed, or are supposed to be arranged or distributed, divers persons or things; thus we say, a clas...
contracts. A particular disposition which makes part of a treaty; of an act of the legislature; of a deed, written agreement, or other written contrac...
torts, remedies. He broke the close. These words are used in a writ for an action of trespass to real estate, the defendant being summonedto answer qu...
com. law. The name of a certificate given by the collector of a port, in which is stated the master or commander (naming him) of a ship or vessel name...
com. law. Among the English bankers, the clearing house is a place in Lombard street, in London, where the bankers of that city daily settle with each...
The disposition to treat with leniency. See Mercy; Pardon....
eccl. law. The name usually given to the collection of decretals or constitutious of Pope Clement V., which was made by order of John XXII. his succes...
All who are attached to the ecclesiastical ministry are called the clergy; a clergyman is therefore an ecclesiastical minister. 2. Clergymen were exem...
An error made by a clerk in transcribing or otherwise. This is always readily corrected by the court. 2. An error, for example, in the teste of a fi. ...
commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whol...
officer. A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the...
eccl. law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk....
practice. One who employs and retains an attorney or counsellor to manage or defend a suit or action in which he is a party, or to advise him about so...
Signifies the interest in the soil, and not merely a close or enclosure in the common acceptation of the term. Doct. & Stud. 307 East, 207 2 Stra. 100...
or close writs, Eng. law. Writs containing, grants from the crown, to particular persons, and for particular purposes, and, not being intended for pub...
Signifies that something is done privately. The senate sits with closed doors on executive business. 2. In general the legislative business of the cou...
An association of persons.It differs from a partnersbip in this, that the members of a club have no authority to bind each other further than they are...
A prefix or particle in the nature of an inseparable proposition, signifying with or in conjunction. Con and the Latin cum are equivalent, as, co-exec...
eccl. law. A fellow helper or assistant; particularly applied to the assistant of a bishop....
Eng. law. A species of promissory note authorized by the st. 3 Geo. H., c. 26, SSSS 7 and 8, which, having these words expressed therein, namely, " va...
French law. By this word is understood an unlawful agreement among several persons, not to do a thing except on some conditions agreed upon. 2. The mo...
One of several administrators. In general, they have, like executors, the power to act singly to the personal estate of the intestate. Vide Administra...
One who is assignee with another. 2. In general, the rights and duties of co-assignees are equal....
One who is executor of a will in company with another. In general each co-executor has the full power over the personal estate of the testator, that a...
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