A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunn. Dict. h. t. But this seems to ...
contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt, a pawn. (q. v.) Hence mortgage is a dead pl...
Wager of law. (q. v.)...
The word is used as synonymous with profits. (q. v.) See Fruit....
old Eng. law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and v...
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts....
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death....
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bac. Ab. h. t., Animals, Ferae natural....
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the lo...
crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, bei...
Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same as acquets. Bienes gananciales are thus defined: " Aquellos que el marido y la muger o ...
A prison or building designated by law or used by the sheriff, for the confinement or detention of those, whose persons are judicially ordered to be k...
Eng. law. To insure the trial, within a certain time, of all prisoners, a patent in the nature of a letter is issued from the king to certain persons,...
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the placo where prisoners are kept. 2. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe c...
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers. 2. A garden is a parcel of a house and passes with it. Br. Feoffm. de terre, 53, 2 Co. 3...
Eng. law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison. ....
practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and ...
A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining a cause. For example,...
An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance...
A tax, imposition or tribute, the same as gabel. (q. v.)...
Given to all the kindred, or the hold or tenure of a family, not the kind of tenure. Eng. law. A tenure or custom annexed or belonging to land in Kent...
old Eng. law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence, also, rent, money or tribute....
An assembly. Wittena gemote, during the time of the Saxons in England, signified an assembly of wise men. The parliament....
That which designates the sexes. 2. As a general rule, when the masculine is used it includes the feminine, as, man (q. v.) sometimes includes women. ...
The summary history or table of a house or family, showing how the persons there named are connected together. 2. It is founded on the idea of a linea...
A son-in-law. Dig. 50, 16, 156....
This word has several meanings, namely: 1. A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2. Something opposed to special, as, a general verdict, the ...
This name is given in some of the states to the senate and house of representatives, which compose the legislative body....
pleading. One granted upon a prayer, in which the defendant reserves to himself no exceptions, and is always from one term to another. Gould on Pl. c....
pleading. A plea which traverses or denies at once the whole indictment or declaration, without offering any special matter, to evade it. It is called...
One of the departments of government of the United St ates. 2. It was established by the Act of April 25,1812, 2 Storys Laws U. S. 1238, another act w...
One which is employed by the master or owners, on a particular voyage, and is hired by a number of persons, unconnected with each other, to convey the...
pleading. One in which the defendant reserves to himself " all advantages and exceptions whatsoever." 2 Chit. Pl. 408. 2. This kind of imparlance allo...
pleading. One preceded by a general inducement, and denying, in general terms, all that is last before alleged on the opposite side, instead of pursui...
A word used by the Romans to represent race and nation. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 259, n. 13. In the French law, it is used to signify people or nations, as Dr...
In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, is one who bears a coat of armor. 2 Inst. 667. In the United States, this word is unknown to the law...
This word is unknown to the law in the United States, and is but little used. In England. it was, formerly, a good addition of the state or degree of ...
It denotes the number of beings, or objects, which agree in certain general properties, common to them all, so that genus is, in fact, only an abstrac...
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. George the Second granted a charter to Lord Percival, and twenty others, for t...
relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or descent, thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the father and moth...
civil law.. Officers appointed to manage hospitals for poor old persons. Clef des Lois Rom. mot Administrateurs....
med. jur. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus. By the common consent of mankind, the term of...
conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance, that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of ...
contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accep...
Vivos. A gift made from one or more persons, without any prospect of immediate death, to one or more others. 2. These gifts are so called to distingui...
Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of a woman in marriage. 2. This right is vested in the father, if living, if dead, in the mother. They may ...
A measure of capacity, equal to one-fourth of a pint. Vide Measure....
mer. law. An Italian word,, which signifies the drawer. It is derived from, girare, to draw, in the same manner as the English verb to murder, is tran...
, A girth or yard is a measure of length. The word is of Saxon origin, taken from the circumference of the human body. Girth is contracted from girdet...
pleading. Gist of the action is the essential ground or object of it, in point of law, and without which there is no cause of action. Gould on Pl. c. ...
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