A name given to a legislative act which embraces many subjects. Such acts, besides being evident proofs of the ignorance of the makers of them, or of ...
civil law. An heir instituted by testament; one made an heir by the testator. Vide Heir....
civil law. An heir by intestacy; he on whom an estate descends by operation of law. Vide Heir....
A measure of wine, oil, and the like, containing half a pipe; the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons....
The holder of a bill of exchange is the person who is legally in the possession of it, either by endorsement or delivery, or both, and entitled to rec...
ent, or, under local regulations, by summary proceedings. Vide 2 Yeates R. 523; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 486; 5 Binn. 228; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 459; 1 Binn. 334, ...
What is written by ones own hand. The same as Olograph. Vide Olograph....
Eng. law. An acknowledgment made by the vassal in the presence of his lord, that he is his man, that is, his subject or vassal. The form in law French...
The port where the owner of a ship resides; this is a relative term....
The mansion-house....
The place of the house or home place. Homestead farm does not necessarily include all the parcels of land owned by the grantor, though lying and occup...
crim. law. According to Blackstone, it is the killing of any human creature. 4 Com. 177. This is the most extensive sense of this word, in which the i...
Engl. law.. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country...
English law. The name of a writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part of a seal appointed...
When a man is unlawfully in custody, he may be restored to his liberty by writ de hominereplegiando, upon giving bail; or by a writ of habeas, corpus,...
This Latin word, in its most enlarged sense, includes both man and woman. 2 Inst. 45. Vide Man....
civil law. Approbation, confirmation by a court of justice, a judgment which orders the execution of some act; as, the approbation of an award, and or...
That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit dautrui. 2. The very object of social order is...
High estimation. A testimony of high estimation. Dignity. Reputation. Dignified respect of character springing from probity, principle, or moral recti...
Eng. law. The seigniory of a lord paramount. 2 Bl. Com. 9f....
A recompense for services rendered. It is usually applied only to the recompense given to persons whose business is connected with science; as the fee...
pleading in the ancient English law. These words signify out of his fee. A plea which was pleaded, when a person who pretended to be the lord, brought...
Until a horse has attained the age of four years, he is called a colt. (q. v.) Russ. & Ry. 416. This word is sometimes used as a generic name for all ...
A person delivered into the possession of a public enemy in the time of war, as a security for the performance of a contract entered into between the ...
Engl. law. A right reserved to the lords to be lodged and entertained in the houses of their tenants....
A state of open enmity; open war. Wolff, Dr. de la Rat.1191.Hostility, as it regards individuals, may be permanent or temporary; it is permanent when ...
estates. This homely term is used figuratively to signify the blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equal...
measure of time. The space of sixty minutes, or the twenty-fourth part of a natural day. Vide Date; Fraction; and Co. Litt. 135; 3 Chit. Pr. 110....
estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or dem...
Eng. law. The representatives of the people, in contradistinction to the nobles, taken collectively are called the house of commons. 2. This house mu...
A prison where offenders of a particular class are confined. The term is more common in England than in the United States....
Eng. law. The English lords, temporal and spiritual, when taken collectively and forming a branch of the parliament, are called the House of Lords. 2...
punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United Statees on the most humane principles, by sp...
arations as to his religious belief. He must be free from undue bias or dependence, by not holding any office under the United States. Art. 1, s. 6, 2...
An allowance of necessary timber out of the landlords woods, for the repairing and support of a house or tenement. This belongs of common-right to any...
One who occupies a house. 2. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays a...
A place used by hushandmen to set their ploughs, carts, and other farming utensils, out of the rain and sun. Law Latin Dict. A shed; a cottage; a mean...
The master or captain of a hoy. 2. Hoymen are liable as common carriers. Story, Bailm. 496....
Eng. law. A mode of pursuing felons, or such as have dangerously wounded any person, or assaulted any one with intent to rob him, by the constable, fo...
Spanish law. An acre of land or as much as can be ploughed in a day by two oxen. Sp. Dict.; 2 Whites Coll. 49....
An usher of a court. In France, an officer of this name performs many of the duties which in this country devolve on the sheriff or constable. Dalloz,...
Eng. law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the in...
The name of a court among the Saxons. It was holden every month, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the hundred....
In England they are inhabitants of a local division of a county, who, by several statutes, are held to be liable in the cases therein specified, to ma...
The desire for taking food. Hunger is no excuse for larceny. 1 Hale, P. C. 54; 4 Bl. Com. 31. But it is a matter which applies itself strongly to the ...
The act of pursuing and taking wild animals; the chase. 2. The chase gives a kind of title by occupancy, by which the hunter acquires a right or prop...
Eng. law. A species of sledge, used to draw traitors to execution....
o do, and which her situation requires; but this does not include such luxuries as, according to her fancy, she deems necessaries; vide article Cruelt...
mar. law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner...
old Eng. law. The, ancient name of the offence now called burglary....
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