The margin of a country bounded by the sea. This term includes the natural appendages of the territory which rise out of the water, although they are ...
commerce. In England the office at the custom house, where the goods to be exported are entered, is so called, also the custom house seal, or the parc...
commerce. In the English law this word signifies, 1. the custom- house seal; 2. the office at the custom where cockers are to be procured. Crabbe"s Te...
legislation. Signifies in general a collection of laws. It is a name given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made by the legislature. Am...
Les Cing Codes; French law. The five codes. 2. These codes are, 1st. Code Civil, which is divided into three books; book 1, treats of persons, and of ...
A digest of the laws of Hayti, enacted by Henri, king of Hayti. It is based upon the Code Napoleon, but not servilely copied. It is said to be judicio...
civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian; the greater part of those from Adrian to Constantine are mere ...
In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it s...
The Code Civil of France, enacted into law during the reign of Napoleon, bore his name until the restoration of the Bourbons when it was deprived of t...
The name of a collection of the Roman laws, promulgated by Romulus, Numa, and other kings who governed. Rome till the time of Tarquin, the Proud. It w...
Allgemeines Landrecht. This code is also known by the name of Codex Fredericianus, or Frederician code. It was compiled by order of Frederic H., by th...
This code, which originated in the eastern empire, was adopted in the Western empire towards its decline. It is a collection of the legislation of the...
One who is made defendant in an action with another person....
Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers...
devises. An addition or supplement to a will; it must be executed with the same solemnities. A codicil is a part of the will, the two instruments maki...
criminal law, contracts. Constraint; compulsion; force.2. It is positive or presumed. 1. Positive or direct coercion takes place when a man is by phys...
One who is executor with another. 2. In general, the rights and duties of co-executors are equal....
civil law. Signifies generally the kindred which exists between two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both.2. Cognation is of -thr...
cognates. This term occurs frequently in the Roman civil law, and denotes collateral heirs through females. It is not used in the civil law as it now ...
pleading. Where the defendant in an action of replevin (not being entitled to the distress or goods which are the subject of the replevin) acknowledge...
practice. Sometimes signifies jurisdiction and juudicial power, an sometimes the hearing of a matter judicially. It is a term used in the acknowledgme...
Eng. law. A privilege granted by the king to a city or town, to hold pleas within the same; and when any one is impleaded in the courts at Westminster...
He to whom a fine of lands, &c. is acknowledged. See Cognisor....
English law. One who passes or acknowledges,a fine of lands or tenements to another, in distinction from the cogzisee, to whom the fine of the lands, ...
English law, practice. A writ to a justice ,or other person, who has power to take a fine, and having taken the acknowledgment of a fine, delays to ce...
A Latin word, which signifies a family name. The praenomen among the Romans distinguished the person, the nomen, the gens, or all the kindred descende...
contr. leading. A written confession of an action by a defendant, subscribed but not sealed, and authorizing the plaintiff to sign judgment and issue ...
Living together. 2. The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them; but where there ha...
One of several men among whom an inheritance is to be divided....
A woman who inherits an estate in common with other women. A joint heiress....
A head-dress. In England there are certain serjeants at law, who are called serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wear on their heads under t...
commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called m...
collateralis. From latus, a side; that which is sideways, and not direct....
contracts. That which is made over and above the deed itself....
evidence. Facts unconnected with the issue or matter in dispute. 2. As no fair and reasonable inference can be drawn from such facts, they are inadmis...
practice, pleading. Where a criminal convict pleads any matter, allowed by law, in bar of execution; as pregnancy, a pardon, and the like....
descent, distribution. Those who descend from one and the same common ancestor, but not from one another; thus brothers and sisters are collateral to ...
contracts. A separate obligation attached to another contract, to guaranty its performance. By this term is also meant the transfer of property or of ...
contracts, descent. Where the heir"s title to the land neither was, nor could have been, derived from the warranting ancestor; and yet barred the heir...
descent, distribution. Where a portion or money advanced to a son or daughter, is brought into botchpot, in order to have an equal distributive share ...
descents. A term used in the laws of Louisiana. Collation -of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes ...
eccl. law. The act by which the bishop, who has the bestowing of a benefice, gives it to an incumbent. T. L....
practice. The comparison of a copy with its original, in order to ascertain its correctness and conformity; the report of the officer who made the com...
Where, on the same label, one seal was set on the back or reverse of the other, this was said to be a collation of seals. Jacob. L. D. h. t....
officer. One appointed to receive taxes or other impositions; as collector of taxes; collector of militia fines, &c. A collector is also a person appo...
Officers of the United States, appointed for the term of four years, but removable at the pleasure of the president. Act of May 15, 1820, sect. 1, 3 S...
A civil corporation, society or company, authorized by law, having in general a literary object. In some countries by college is understood the union ...
maritime law. It takes place when two ships or other vessels run foul of each other, or when one runs foul of the other. In such cases there is almost...
The pillory....
French law. The act by which the creditors of an estate are arranged in the order in which they are to be paid according to law. The order in which th...
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