Of half tongue. Vide Medietas linguae....
Of the better damages. When a plaintiff has sued several defendants, and the damages have been assessed severally against each, he has the choice of s...
This is the name of a statute passed in the 11 Edw. I., it is usually called the statute of Acton Burnell De Mercatoribus. It was passed in consequenc...
Anew. afresh. When a judgment upon an issue in part is reversed on error, for some mistake made by the court, in the course of the trial, a venire de ...
Civil law. Where a thiug is intended to be done against another mans right, the party aggrieved may have in many cases, according to the civilians, an...
These words sisignify "from hatred and ill will." When a person was committed on a charge of a crime, from such a motive, he could sue the writ de oti...
The name of a writ for making partition. Vide Partition....
Eng. Practice. The name of a writ which issues in a case of replevin when the defendant claims property in the chattels replevied, and the sheriff mak...
The name of a part or contract, in the civil law, by which one who has a claim difficult to recover, agrees with another to give a partfor the purpose...
The name of a writ which lies by one tenant in common against the other, to cause him to aid in repairing the common propert. 8 B. & C. 269....
The name of a writ issued after a judgment has been given in replevin, that the defendant should have a return of the goods replevied. See 3 Bouv. Ins...
Of his own wrong. This term is usually applied to a person who, having no right to meddle with the affairs or estate of a deceased person, yet underta...
Of his own wrong, pleading. The name of a replication in an action for a wrong or injury. When the defendant pleads a matter merely in excuse of an in...
A deed de una parte, is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do.a thing to another. It differs from a deed inter partes. (q. v....
Eng. law. Where a man is required to appear on a certain day in person, and before that day the king certifies that the party is in the kings service,...
Eccl. law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the ...
Something which has no life, figuratively, something of no value....
crim. law. A corpse. 2. To take up a dead body without lawful authority, even for the purposes of dissection, is a misdemeanor, for which the offender...
descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, throug...
contracts. When the charterer of a vessel has shipped part of the goods on board, and is not ready to ship the remainder, the master, unless restraine...
English law. By the custom of London, when a deceased freeman of the city left a widow and children, after deducting what was calledthe widows chamber...
Those which remain in the post-office, uncalled for. By the Act of March 8, 1825, 3 Story. L. U. S. 1993, it is enacted, by 26, "That the postmasters...
A mortgage of lands or goods - mortuum vadium....
No definition is requisite, as the words are sufficiently known. A person deaf and dumb is doli capax but with such persons who have not been educated...
A man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an idiot. (q. v.) 1 Bl. Com. 304, F. N. B. 233, 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2111....
Traffic, trade, the transaction of business between two or more persons. 2. The English statute 6 Geo. IV. c. 16, s. 81, declares all dealings with a ...
eccl. law. An ecelesiastictl officer, who derives his name from the fact that he presides over ten canons, or, prebondaries, at least. There are sever...
med. jur., crim. law, evidence. The cessation of life. 2. It is either natural, as when it happens in the usual course, without any violence, or viole...
Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of ones property after being attacked with a mortal disease. 2. It commences with the be...
In cases of homicide, those which are made in extremis, when the person making them is conscious of his danger and has given up all hopes of recovery,...
English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from...
legislation, practice. A contestation between two or more persons, in which they take different sides of a question, and maintain them, respectively, ...
A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein ...
pleading. He owes and detains. In an action of.debt, the form of the writ is either in the debet and detinet, that is, it states that the defendant ow...
accounts, commerce. A term used in book-keeping, to express the left-hand page of the ledger, to which are carried all the articles supplied or paid o...
A debt due at present, to be paid in future. There is a difference between debt payable now and one payable at a future time. On the former an action ...
contracts. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement. 3 Bl. Com. 154. In a less technical sense, as in the "act to regulate arbitrations and...
remedies. The name of an action used for the recovery of a debt eo nomine and in numero though damages are generally awarded for the detention of the ...
One to whom a debt is due a creditor, as, debtee executor. 3 Bl. Com. 18....
contracts. One who owes a debt, he who may be constrained to pay what he owes. 2. A debtor is bound to pay his debt personally, and all the estate he ...
punishment. The punishment of putting a person to death by taking off his head....
In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate....
tort. A fraudulent. misrepresentation or contrivance, by which one man deceives another, who has no means of detecting the fraud, to the injury and da...
practice. In the English law this is a writ which gives to the sheriff apponere decem tales, i. e. to appoint ten such men for the supply of jurymen, ...
Eng. law. A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders. Ten tithings composed a hundred. 1 Bl. Com. 114....
Eng. law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict, called so, because it was sued o...
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation....
A French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents....
practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions. V...
One who makes a declaration. Vide Declarationis....
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