crim. law. The fraudulently removing and secreting of personal property, with which the party has been entrusted, for the purpose of applying it to hi...
rights. By this term is understood the crops growing upon the land. By crops is here meant the products of the earth which grow yearly and are raised ...
criminal law. He who, when a matter is on trial between party and party, comes to the bar with one of the parties, and having received some reward so ...
crim. law. An attempt to corrupt or influence a jury, or any way incline them to be more favorable to the one side than to the other, by money, promis...
Eng. law. This ancient word is said to be used in the accounts of the inner temple, where so much in emendals at the foot of an account signifies so m...
One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settle elsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with him. Va...
The act of removing from one place to another. It is sometimes used in the same sense as expatriation, (q. v.) but there is some difference in the sig...
A title of honor given to cardinals....
The right which people or government retain over the estates of individuals, to resume the same for public use. 2. It belongs to the legislature to de...
One who is sent from one power or government into another nation for the purpose of spreading false rumors and to cause alarm. He differs from a spy. ...
med. jur. The act by which any matter whatever is thrown from the body, thus it is usual to say, emission of urine, emission of semen, &c. 2. In cases...
med. jur. The name of a class of medicines which are believed to have the power. of favoring the discharge of the menses. These are black hellebore, s...
The lawful gain or profit which arises from an office....
A punishment in which a sharp polo was forced up the fundament. Encyc. Lond. h. t....
an officer. This word is synonymous with the Latin imperator, they are both derived from the. verb imperare. Literally, it signifies he who commands. ...
civil law. The name of a contract by which the owner of an uncultivated piece of land granted it to another either in perpetuity, or for a long time, ...
This word signifies, first, authority or command, it is the power to command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free, secondly, t...
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to. perform certain duties. 2. He is entitled to a just compensat...
One who is authorized to act for another, a mandatory....
An employment is an office, as, the secretary of the treasury has a laborious and responsible employment, an agency, as, the employment of an auctione...
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties. 2. - 1. His rights are, to be served accor...
The act of buying....
A buyer, a purchaser....
In default. This term is used in Louisiana. 3 N. S. 574. See Moral in....
A term used in equity. When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, confers upon persons not seised of the fee, the right of creating in...
med. jur. A French word, which signifies pregnant. 2. When a woman is pregnant, and is convicted of a capital crime, she cannot lawfully be punished t...
An artificial fence put around ones estate. Vide Close....
An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another, as, when a man sets his fence beyond his line, in this case the proper remedy for the par...
A burden or charge upon an estate or property, so that it cannot be disposed of without being subject to it. A mortgage, a lien for taxes, are example...
crim. law. An attempt. (q. v.) Vide Revolt....
Vide Indorsement....
The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman. It is sometimes used: metaphorically, for the setting a provision for a charitable institution, as th...
international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a nation,...
This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract. The terms obligation...
A law was made by Canutus, for the preservation of his Danes, that when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless i...
One who purchases large quantities of any commodities in order to have the command of the market, and to sell them again at high prices....
Extending or making more comprehensive, as an enlarging statute, which is one extending the common law....
The part of the eldest. Co. Litt. 166, Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C. 2. When partition is voluntarily made among coparceners in England, the eldest has the...
The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his pleasure....
Thc act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. The contract so made, is also called an en...
Wrongful acts. See Alia Enormia....
Eng. law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, kings bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records ...
That which is not divided, that which is whole. 2. When a contract is entire, it must in general be fully performed, before the party can claim the co...
This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part. A hushand and wife, when jointly seized of land, are seized ...
A warehouse, a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are again to be removed....
criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. In cases of burglary, the least entry with the whole or any part of the ...
estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner. 2. A person having a right of possession may assert it by a peaceable entry, and b...
commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchants or tradesmans accouut books, such entries are,...
Eng. law. The name of a writ which lies in favor of the reversioner, when the tenant for term of life, tenant for term of anothers life, tenant by the...
commercial law. An entry of goods at the custom-house is the submitting to the officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, good...
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