English law. Formerly he was a chief officer of a borough, but now he is an officer subordinate to constable. St. Armand, Hist. Essay on the Legisl. P...
Freedom from pain or sickness; the most perfect state of animal life. It may be defined, the natural agreement and concordant dispositions of the part...
The name of an officer invested with power to enforce the health laws. The powers and duties of health officers are regulated by local laws....
chwncery practice. The term, hearing is given to the trial of a chancery suit. 2. The hearing is conducted as follows. When the cause is called on in...
crim. law. The examination of a prisoner charged with a crime or misdemeanor, and of the witnesses for the accuser. 2. The magistrate should examine ...
proved in his presence by the testimony of a witness sworn or affirmed to speak the truth. 3. There are, however, exceptions to the rule. 1. Hearsay ...
Wood used for repairing hedges or fences. 2 Bl. Com. 35; 16 John. 15....
A young cow, which has not had a calf. A beast of this kind two years and a half old, was held to be improperly described in the indictment as a cow. ...
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is...
One who has an indefeasible right to the inheritance, provided he outlive the ancestor. 2 Bl. Com. 208....
A term used in the civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. Civ. Code...
A collateral heir is one who is not of the direct line of the deceased, but comes from a collateral line; as, a brother, sister, an uncle and aunt, a ...
civil law. A conventional heir is one who takes a succession by virtue of a contract; for example, a marriage contract, which entitles the heir to the...
Forced heirs are those who cannot be disinherited. This term is used among the civilians. Vide Forced heirs...
Heir at common in the English law. The heir at common law is he who, after his father or ancestors death has a right to, and is introduced into all hi...
In Louisiana, irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. See Civ. ...
r legitime. There are three classes of legal heirs, to wit; the children and other lawful descendants; the fathers and mothers and other lawful ascend...
estates. This word seems to be compounded of heir and loom, that is, a frame, viz. to weave in. Some derive the word loom from the Saxon loma, or gelo...
A presumptive heir is one who, in the present circumstances, would be entitled to the inheritance, but whose rights may be defeated by the contingency...
civil law. A testamentary heir is one who is constituted heir by testament executed in the form prescribed by law. He is so called to distinguish him ...
A term used in the civil law, adopted by the Civil Code of Louisiana. Unconditional heirs are those who inherit without any reservation, or without ma...
A female heir to a person having an estate of inheritance. When there is more than one, they are called co-heiresses, or co-heirs....
Eng. law. The name of the kingdom or government established by the Saxons, on their establishment in Britain so called because it was composed of seve...
civil and canon law. The art or office of a herald. It is the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armori...
English Law, A species of easement, which consists in the right to feed ones cattle on another mans ground....
estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed and including not only lands and everything the...
That which is inherited....
Eng. law. The adoption of any erroneous religious tenet, not warranted by the established church. 2. This is punished by the deprivation of certain c...
A species of English military service, or knights fee....
Eng. law. A render of the best beast or other goods, as the custom may be, to the lord, on the death of the tenant. 2 Bl. Com. 97. 2. They are usuall...
By this word is understood, among the civilians, every species of immovable which can be the subject of property, such as lands, houses, orchards, woo...
Persons who have in the sexual organs the appearance of both sexes. They are adjudged to belong to that which prevails in them. Co. Litt. 2, 7; Domat,...
measures. In England, a hide of land, according to some ancient-manuscripts, contained one hundred and twenty acres. Co. Litt. 5; Plowd. 167; Touchst....
were different degrees of power and authority, at the summit of which was the sovereign pontiff, and this was called the hierarchy. Now it signifies, ...
This word has various signifcations: 1. Principal or chief, as high constable, high sheriff. 2. Prominent, in a bad sense, as high treason. 3. Open, n...
An officer appointed in some cities bears this name. His powers are generally Iimited to matters of police, and are not more extensive in these respec...
English law. The name of a court esthlished by stat. 25 Hen. VIII. c. 19, s. 4. No permanent judges are appointed, but in every case of appeal to this...
This term, which is frequently used in the laws of the United States signifies the unenclosed waters of the ocean, and also those waters on the sea co...
English law. Treason against the king, in contradistinction with petit treason, which is the treason of a servant towards his master; a wife towards h...
That part of the shore of the sea to which the waves ordinarily reach when he tide is at its highest. 6 Mass. R. 435; 1 Pick. R. 180; 1 Halst. R. 1; 1...
contracts. He who, at an auction, offers the greatest price for the property sold. 2. The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his ...
A passage or road through the country, or some parts of it, for the use of the people. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 442. The term highway is said to be a generic ...
A robber on the highway....
Eng. law. One of the four terms of the courts, beginning the 11th and ending the 31st day of January in each year....
Eng. law. A person who carries from door to door, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like....
of Lo. art. 2640. 8. There is a species of contract in which, though no price in money be paid, and which, strictly speaking, is not the contract of ...
contracts. Called, in the civil law, conductor, and, in the French law conducteur, procureur, locataire, is he who takes a thing from another, to use ...
A title given by the constitution of Massaebusetts to the governor of that commonwealth. Const. part 2, c. 2, s. 1, art. 1. This title is customarily ...
A title given by the constitution of Massachusetts to the lieu- tenant governor of that commonwealth. Const. part 2, c. 2, s. 2, art. 1. It, is also c...
evidence. The recital of facts written and given out for true. 2. Facts stated in histories may be read in evidence, on the ground of their notoriety...
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