government. The department of the treasury is constituted of the following officers, namely: the secretary of the treasury, (q. v.) the head of the de...
government. The act of August 7, 1789, 1 Storys Laws, 31, creates an executive department, to be denominated the department of war, and there shall be...
pleading. Said to be when a party quits or departs from the case, or defence, which he has first made, and has recourse to another, it is when his rep...
maritime law. A deviation from the course of the voyage insured. 2. A departure is justifiable or not justifiable it is justifiable ill consequence of...
A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign, power resides, but belonging rightfully to it, and subject to the laws and regul...
One which it is not the duty of the contractor to perform, until some obligation contained in the same agreement has been performed by the other party...
witness. One who gives information, on oath or affirmation, respecting some facts known to him, before a magistrate he who makes a deposition....
In its most proper signification, is the destruction of the people of a country or place. This word is, however, taken rather in a passive than an act...
civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen, it differed from relegation (q. v.) and exile. ...
contracts. Usually defined to be a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor, without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it. Jon...
contracts. He with whom a deposit is confided or made. 2. It is, the essence of the contract of deposits that it should be gratuitous on the part of t...
evidence. The testimony of a witness reduced to writing, in due form of law, taken by virtue of a commission or other authority of a competent tribuna...
eccl. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his actin...
contracts. He who makes a deposit. 2. He is generally entitled to receive the deposit from the depositary, but to this rule there are exceptions, as. ...
French law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a decedent. Ferr. Mod. h. t....
ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide A...
One authorized by an officer to exercise the office or right which the officer possesses, for and in place of the latter. 2. In general, ministerial o...
An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a s...
The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815, 2 Story L. U. S. 1530, authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant,...
common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to lands left...
civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner, he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi, hi...
Coming from another, taken from something preceding, secondary, as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person. There is considerable...
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him. See Powers....
civil law. The partial abrogation of a law, to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it, to abrogate a law is to abolish it e...
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree. Ambl. 327 2 Bro. C. C. 3...
In the descent, as formedon in the descender. Bac. Ab. Formedon, A 1. Vide Formedon....
Hereditary succession. Descent is the title, whereby a person, upon the death of his ancestor, acquires the estate of the latter, as his heir at law: ...
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae, it is then a sufficient designation o...
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, (q. v.) but is more partic...
One who abandons his post, as, a soldier who abandons the public service without leave, or a sailor who abandons a ship when he has engaged to serve....
crim. law. An offence which consists in the abandonment of the public service, in the army or navy, without leave. 2. The Act of March 16, 1802, s. 19...
torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them. 2. On proof of desertion, the courts possess the power to grant the W...
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation. Vide Abandonment, malicious...
contracts. The abandonment, by a sailor, of a ship or vessel, in which he engaged to perform a voyage, before the expiration of his time, and without ...
The persons described in a contract as being parties to it. 2. In all contracts, under seal, there must be some designatio personae. In general, the n...
wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name, for example, a legacy to. the eldest ...
The name given, in some countries, to persons appointed to settle cases of average. Ord. Hamh. t. 21, art. 10....
Official communications of official Persons, on the affairs ofgovernment. 2. In general, the bearer of despatches is entitled to all the facilities th...
Of which there is no hope. 2. This term is used frequently, in making an inventory of a decedents effects, when a debt is considered so bad that there...
This word signifies, in our ancient law books, a contemptible person. Flet. lib. 4, c. 5, 4. The English word despite is derived from it, which signi...
This word, in its most simple and original acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord, it is synonymous with monarch, but, taken in bad part, as i...
government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official ...
Law French. Unreasonable. Britt. c. 121....
The application which the testator directs shall be made of the legacy he gives, for example, when a testator gives to a hospital a sum of money, to b...
com. law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination. Pard. n. 600....
This term is applied to laws which have become obsolete. (q.v.)...
1. The act of keeping a person against his will, or of keeping goods or property. All illegal detainers of the person amount to false imprisonment, an...
The act of retaining a person or property, and preventing the removal of such person or property. 2. The detention may be occasioned by accidents, as,...
What may come to an end, by the happening of a contingency, as a determnable fee. See 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1695....
Also called a qualified or base fee, is one which has a quality subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it...
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