pleading. A discourse a conversation or conference. 2. In actions of slander, it is generally true that an action does not lie for words, on account o...
fraud. An agreement between two or more persons, to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law; as, f...
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title....
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country. 3 W. C. C. R. 287. The countr...
pleading. It is of two kinds, namely, express color, and implied color. 2. Express color. This is defined to be a feigned matter, pleaded by the defen...
criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office; in some cases the act amounts to a misdemeanor, and the par...
An animal of the horse species, whether male or female, not more than four years old. Russ. & Ry. 416....
Eng. law. The form of a forcible encounter between two or more persons or bodies of men; an engagement or battle. A duel....
A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machinery, or machines. See 2 Mason, 112; and Composition of ...
Burning of houses; arson. Vide 4 Bl. Com. 372....
pleading. In a plea, the defendant says, " And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes, and defends, &c. The word comes, venit, expresses the appear...
offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. age, n. 80. 2. Vice-comes, the Lat...
A county. Most of the states are divided into counties; some, as Louisiana, are divided into parishes....
Persons who are attached to a public minister, are so called. As to their privileges, see 1 Dall. 117; Baldw. 240; and Ambassador....
Courtesy; a disposition to accomodate. 2. Courts of justice in one state will, out of comity, enforce the laws of another state, when by such enforcem...
This word has several meanings. 1. It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rio...
The suit is considered as commenced from the issuing of the writ; 3 Bl. Com. 273, 285; 7 T. R. 4; 1 Wils. 147; 18 John. 14; Dunl. Pr. 120; 2 Phil. Ev....
eccles. law. When a benefice or church living is void or vacant, it is commended to the. care of some sufficient clerk to be supplied, until it can be...
A person who holds a church living or presentment in commendam....
The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fr...
eccl. law. Secular persons upon whom ecclesiastical benefices are bestowed, because they were commended and instructed to their oversight: they are me...
trade, contracts. The exchange of commodities for commodities; considered in a legal point of view, it consists in the various agreements which have f...
The whole body of officers who act in the department of the commissary, are called the, commissariate....
An officer whose principal duties are to supply the army witli provisions. 2. The Act of April 14, 1818, s. 6, requires that the president, by and wit...
contracts, civ. law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synon...
office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter; as, such a matter was submitted, to the commission; there were several meetings before the comm...
crim. law. The act of perpetrating an offence. There are crimes of commission and crimes of omission....
government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the d...
practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by ...
A writ issued out of chancery, or such court as may have jurisdiction of the case directed to a proper officer, to inquire whether a person named ther...
One employed to sell goods for another on commission; a factor. He is sometimes called. a consignee, (q. v.) and the goods he receives are a consignme...
chan. prac. The name of a writ issuing out of chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners, named by the plaintiff, commanding them to a...
officer. One who has a lawful commission to execute a public office. In a more restricted sense it is one who is authorized to execute. a particular d...
The name of an officer of the United States whose duties are detailed in the act to promote the useful arts, &c., which will be found under the articl...
practice. Officers appointed by some courts to take recognizances of bail in civil cases....
Eng. law. Officers whose duty it is to repair sea banks aud walls, survey rivers, public streams, ditches, &c....
contracts, practice. An allowance of compensation to an agent, factor, executor, trustee or other person who manages the affairs of others, for his se...
criminal law, practice. The warrant. or order by which a court or magistrate directs a ministerial officer to take a person to prison. The commitment ...
practice. When a person has been found non compos, the law requires that a guardian should be appointed to take care of his person and estate; this gu...
legislation. One or more members of a legislative body to whom is specially referred some matter before that body, in order that they may investigate ...
Eng. law. An instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, which charges a person already in prison, in execution at the suit of, the person who arres...
civil law. This term is used to signify the act by which goods are mixed together. 2. The matters which are mixed are dry or liquid. In the commixtion...
contracts. A term used in the Scotch law, which is synonymous to the Latin commodatum, or loan for use. Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 1, 20; 1 Bell"s Com. 225;...
A contract, by which one of the parties binds himself to return to the other certain personal chattels which the latter delivers to him, to be used by...
or right of common, English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of another. 12 S. & R. 32; 10 We...
Eng. law. A right attached to arable land, and is an incident of tenure, and supposed to have originated by grant of the lord or owner of a manor or w...
Eng. law. A right granted by deed, by the owner of waste or other land, to another person, owner of other land, to have his cattle, or a particular de...
Title by deeds are so called, because, it is said, every man " s estate is assured to him; these deed"s or instruments operate either as conveyances o...
The formal entry of fictitious sureties in the proper office of the court, which is called filing common bail to the action. See Bail....
pleading. A plea to compel the plaintiff to assign the particular place where the trespass has been Committed. Steph. Pl. 256. It i"s sometime"s calle...
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