eccl. law. The title given to one of tho highest dignitaries of the court of Rome. Cardinals are next to the pope in dignity; he is elected by them an...
crim. law. Small square pasteboards, generally of a fine quality, on which are painted figures of various colors, and used for playing different games...
mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh. Index, h. t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h. t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term is usually...
crim. law. This phrase is used to signify a sexual connexion; as, rape is the carnal knowledge of a woman, &c. See Rape....
pleadings. This is a technical phrase, essential in an indictment to charge the defendant with the crime of rape; no other word or circumlocution will...
contracts. There are two kinds of carriers, namely, common carriers, (q. v.) who have been considered under another head; and private carriers. These ...
crim. law. To complete the crime of larceny, the thief must not only feloniously tale the thing stolen, but carry it away. The slightest carrying away...
An allowance to the tenant of wood, sufficient for carts and other instruments of husbandry....
The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing.2. In the course of ...
war. An agreement between two belligerent powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters, and also a written challenge to a duel. 2. Cartel ship, i...
Persons who carry goods and merchandise in carts, either for great or short distances, for hire. 2. Cartmen who undertake to carry goods for hire as a...
practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 9 Wheat. 738....
remedies. This is the name of an action in very general use, which lies where a party sues for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint towhich cov...
practice. An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned, 3...
commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with. 2. Cash price, in contracts, is the price of articles paid ...
Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same th...
An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution.2. The cashier of a...
French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled., Merl. Rep. h....
practice. That the writ be quashed. This is the name of a judgment sometime sentered against a plaintiff when he cannot prosecute his writ with effect...
punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool...
legislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the cas...
crim. law. The act of gelding. When this act is maliciously performed upon a man, it is a mayhem, and punishable as such, although the sufferer consen...
practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester, c. 7, when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life. It might have been brought by th...
What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue"s of the government, are those which are contingeut or uncertain....
pratice, ejectment. A person, supposed to come upon-land casually, (although usually by previous agreement,) who turns out the lessee of the person cl...
When two nations have formed a treaty of alliance, in anticipation of a war or other difficulty with another, and it is required to determine the case...
A fortuitous case; an uncontrollable accident an act of God. See Act of God; Cas fortuit; Fortuitous event....
An omitted case. 2. When a statute or an instrument of writing undertakes to foresee and to provide for certain contingencies, and through mistake, or...
contracts, fraud. An agreement made with an heir expectant, for the purchase of his expectancy, at an inadequate price. 2. In such case, the heir is, ...
officer. A name formerly given to a sheriff"s deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons. He was a sort of serjean...
Engl. law. An obsolete writ, which lies when a woman gives land to a man in fee simple, or for a less estate, to the intent that he should marry her a...
civ. law. This word has two meanings. 1. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention....
contra torts, crim. That which produces an effect. 2. In considering a contract, an injury, or a crime, the law for many purposes looks to the immedia...
pleading.The reason; the motive. 2. In a replication de injuria, for example, the plaintiff alleges that the defendant of his own wrong, and without t...
practice. A Contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action. Causes are civil or criminal. Wood"s Civ. Law, 302; Code, 2, 416. 20...
By this phrase is understood the right to bring an action, which implies, that there is some person in existence who can assert, and also a person who...
Security for costs or expenses. 2. This term is used among the civilians, Nov. 112, c. 2, and generally on the continent of Europe. In nearly all the ...
A term of the Roman civil law, which is used in various senses. It signifies, sometimes, security, or security promised. Generally every writing is ca...
Scotch law. Juratory caution is that which a suspender swears is the best he can offer in order to obtain a suspension. Where the suspender cannot, fr...
Scotch law, contracts. One who becomes bound as caution or surety for another, for the performance of any obligation or contract contained in a deed....
practice. That hebeware. Caveat is the name of a notice given by a party having an interest, to some officer, not to do an act, till the party giving ...
Let the purchaser take heed; that is, let him see to it, that the title he is buying is good. This is a rule of the common law, applicable to the sale...
Sophism, subtlety. Cavilis a captious argument, by which a conclusion evidently false, is drawn from a principle evidently true: Ea est natura cavilla...
med. juris. An incision made through the parietes of the abdomen and uterus to extract the foetus. It is said that Julius Caesar was born in this mann...
The name of a kind of administration, which, after an administration has been granted for a limited purpose, is granted for the rest of the estate. 1 ...
civil law, Scotch law. An assignor. The term is usually applied to the assignor of a chose in action. Kames on Eq. 43....
contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman take each other for ...
A small room in a prison. See Dungeon....
An empty tomb. Dig. 11, 7, 42....
An enumeration of the inhabitants of a country. 2. For the purpose of keeping the reeresentation of the several states in congress equal, the constitu...
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