practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, "I have caused to be made."2. When the officer ha...
Eng. law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who...
Numerals. They are either Roman, made with letters of the Alphabet, for example, MIDCCLXXVI, or they are Arabic, as follows, 1776.2. Roman figures may...
By figures of speech is meant that manner of speaking or writing, which has for its object to give to our sentiments and, thoughts a greater force, mo...
English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, ...
civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or her father, mother, and their ancestors.2. Nature always points out the mother by evi...
The son, the immediate male descendant. This term is used in making genealogical tables....
The eldest legitimate son of parents, who, before their marriage, had illegitimate children. Vide Mulier....
The son of the people, a bastard....
A mare not more than one year old. Russ. & Ry. 416 Id. 494....
The middle, the thread of anything, as filum aqua, filum viae....
The thread or middle of a water course. (q. v.)2. It is a general rule, that in grants of lands bounded on rivers and streams above tide water, unless...
The thread or middle of the road.2. Where a law requires travellers meeting each other on, a road to drive their carriages to the right of the middle ...
French law. An exception or plea founded on law, which, without entering into the merits of the action, shows that the plaintiff has no right to bring...
That which puts an end to anything. 2. It is used in opposition to interlocutory, as, a final judgment,. is a judgment which ends the coutroversy betw...
A person employed in the economical management and application of public money or finances, one who is employed in the management of money....
By this word is understood the revenue, or public resources or money of the state....
One who lawfully comes to the possessiou of anothers personal property, which was then lost.2. The finder is entitled to certain rights and liable to ...
practice. That which has been ascertained, as, the ruding of the jury is conclusive as to matters of fact when confirmed: by a judgment of the court. ...
The act of the jury in agreement upon a verdict....
This word has various significations. It is employed, 1. To mean a sum of money, which, by judgment of a competent jurisdiction, is required to be pai...
conveyance, Practice. An amicable composition or agreement of a suit, either actual or fictitious, by leave of the court, by which the lands in questi...
criminal law. Pecuniary punishment imposed by a lawful tribunal, upon a person convicted of crime or misdemeanor. See Shep. Touchs. 2, Bac. Abr. Fines...
During the vigor of the feudal law, a fine for alienation was a sum of money which a tenant by knights service paid to his lord for permission to alie...
One which arises in consequence of some human agency, without any intention, or which happens by some natural cause, without human agency.2. Whether a...
Fuel for necessary use, a privilege allowed to tenants to take necessary wood for fuel....
A measure of capacity equal to nine gallons. The word firkin is also used to designate a weight, used for butter and cheese, of fifty-six pounds avoir...
The persons composing a partnership, taken collectively, are called the firm. Sometimes this word is used synonymously with partnership.2. The name of...
A passport g ranted by the Great Mogul, to captains of foreign vessels, to trade within the territories over which he has jurisdiction, a permit....
In the English law of descent, the first purchaser was he who first acquired an estate in a family, which still owns it. A purchase of this kind signi...
civil law. The treasury of a prince. The public treasury. Hence to confiscate a thing, is to appropriate it to the fisc. Paillet, Droit Public, 21, n,...
Belonging to the fisc, or public treasury....
An animal which inhabits the water, breathes by the means of gills, and swims by the aid of fins, and is oviparous.2. Fishes in rivers and in the sea,...
estates. A place prepared for catching fish with nets or hooks. This term is commonly applied to the place of drawing a seine, or net. 1 Whart. R. 131...
property. Personal chattels annexed to land, and which may be afterwards severed and removed by the party who has annexed them, or his personal repres...
By the act entitled, "An act to establish the flag of the United States," passed April 4, 1818, 3 Storys L. U. S., 1667, it is enacted-2. - 1. That f...
This, among the Romans, signified. that a crime was then or had just been committed for example, when a crime has just been committed and the corpus d...
The act of committing a crime, when a person is arrested flagrante delicto, the only evidence required to convict him, is to prove that fact....
punishment, Eng. law, Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or ditch whi...
The title of an ancient law book, supposed to have been written by a judge who was confined in the Fleet prison. It is written in Latin, and is divide...
crim. law. The evading the course of justice, by a mans voluntarily withdrawing himself. 4 Bl. Com. 387. Vide Fugitive from justice....
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. It was admitted into the Union by virtue of the act of congress, entitled An Act fo...
The name of a foreign coin. In all computations of customs, the florin of the southern states of Germany, shall be estimated at forty cents, the flori...
A name for the goods which float upon the sea when a ship is sunk, in distinction from Jetsam, (q. v.) and Legan. (q. v.) Bract. lib. 2, c. 5, 5 Co. 1...
civ. law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right of turning the rain water, gathered in a spout, on anothers land., Ersk. Inst. B. 2, t. ...
A league, a compact....
. The name given to marine interest. (q. V.)2. The amount of such interest is not limited by law, because the lender runs the risk of losing, his prin...
med. jur. Recently, this term has been applied to designate the act by which criminal abortion is produced. 1 Becks Med. Jur. 288, Guy, Med. Jur. 133....
civil law. The produce of animals, and the fruit of other property, which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property, by virtue of his rig...
med. jur. The unborn child. The name of embryo is sometimes given to it, but, although the terms are occasionally used indiscriminately, the latter is...
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