The name of a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has entered unlawfully, and continues in possession. This is a ...
international law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of di...
med. jur. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them. 2. These paroxysms are characterized by the loss o...
eccl. law. A form of government by diocesan bishops, the office or condition of a bishop....
civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law...
Possessing the same rights, and being liable to the same duties. See 1 Toull. No. l70, 193, Int. 2. Persons are all equal before the law, whatever adv...
The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal, that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the su...
That which is in conformity to the natural law. Wolff, Inst. 83....
An equitable estate is a right or interest in land, which, not having the properties of a legal estate, but being merely a right of which courts of eq...
Eng. law. The deposit of title-deeds, by the owner of an estate, with a person from whom he has borrowed money, with an accompanying agreement to exec...
In the early history of the law, the sense affixed to this word was exceedingly vague and uncertain. This was owing, in part, to the fact, that the ch...
A court of equity is one which administers justice, where there are no legal rights, or legal rights, but courts of law do not afford a complete, reme...
A right which the mortgagee of an estate has of redeeming it, after it has been forfeited at law by the non-payment at, the time appointed of the mone...
Of the same value. Sometimes a condition must be literally accomplished in forma specifica, but some may be fulfilled by an equivalent, per oequi pole...
What has a double sense. 2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that when an expression may be taken in two senses, that shall be p...
The name of a kind of rack for extorting confessions. Encyc. Lond....
contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing, it will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. (q. v.) Vide 5 Pe...
We have erected. In England, whenever the. right of creating or granting a new office is vested in the king, he must use proper words for the purpose,...
med. jur. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of ...
A mistake in judgment or deviation from the truth, in matters of fact and from the law in matters of judgment. 2. - 1 Error of fact. The law has wisel...
A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record and correcting an alleged error committed...
An escape is tho deliverance of a person who is lawfully imprisoned, out of prison, before such a person is entitled to such deliverance by law. 5 Mas...
A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the kings bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes a...
title to lands. According to the English law, escheat denotes an obstruction of the course of descent, and a consequent determination of the tenure, b...
The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosecute the claim of the commonwealth for the ...
conveyancing, contracts. A conditional delivery of a deed to a stranger, and not to the grantee himself, until certain conditions shall be performed, ...
old Eng. law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knights service. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 272, Littl. s. 95, 86 b....
Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to choose one of the parts of the estate after i...
The products which the land or ground yields, as the hay of the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn or other produce of the arable, rents and se...
contracts. A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other, at some other time: it differs from a marriage, because then the contract i...
A title applied by courtesy to officers of almost every description, to members of the bar, and others. No one is entitled to it by law, and, therefor...
practice. An excuse which a party bound to be in court on a particular day, offers for not being there. 1 Sell. Pr. 4, Lees Dict. h. t. 2. Essoin day ...
This word occurs frequently in the Constitution of the United $tates, and it is there used in different meanings. 1. To settle firmly, to fix unaltera...
Spanish law. In Spanish America, this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas or yards. 2 Whites Coll. 139....
This word his several meanings: 1. In its most extensive sense, it is applied to signify every thing of which riches or, fortune may consist and inclu...
French law. Stare in judicio. To appear before a tribunal either as plaintiff or defendant....
As the value of most things is variable, according to circumstances, the law in many cases determines the time at which the value of a thing should be...
pleading. An estoppel is a preclusion, in law, which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact, in consequence o his own previous act, allegation...
estates. The right of taking necessary wood for the use or furniture of a house or farm, from off anothers estate. The word bote is used synonymously ...
Cattle whose owner is unknown. 2. In the United States, generally, it is presumed by local regulations, they are subject to, being sold for the benefi...
This term is used to signify a true copy or note of some original writing or record, and specially of flues and amercements imposed by a court, and ex...
This word is derived from the French, estropier, to cripple. It signifies an injury to lands, to the damage of another, as a reversioner. This is prev...
The name of a writ which lay at common law to prevent a party in possession from committing waste on an estate, the title to which is disputed, after ...
A Latin phrase, which has been adopted into English, it signifies. "and the others, and so of the rest," it is commonly abbreviated, &c. 2. Formerly t...
And not. These words are sometimes employed in pleading to convey a pointed denial. They have the same effect as without this, absque hoe. 3 Bouv. Ins...
This Latin phrase signifies going, remaining, and returning. It is employed in cases where a person either as a party, a witness, or one acting in som...
Equal laws, and a well adjusted constitution of government....
A male whose organs of generation have been so far removed or disorganized, that he is rendered incapable of reproducing his species. Domat, Lois Civ....
A subtle device to set aside the truth, or escape the punishment of the law, as if a man should tempt another to strike him first, in order that he mi...
The loss or deprivation which the possessor of a thing suffers, either in whole or in part, of his right of property in such a thing, in consequence o...
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