This word is used in references, when it is intended to say that a thing is to be found in the same place, or that the reference has for its object th...
med. jurisp. A maim, a bruise, or swelling; any hurt without cutting the skin. When the skin is cut, the injury is called a wound. (q. v.) Bract. lib....
Sounding the same. 2. In pleadings, when a name which it is material to state, is wrongly spelled, yet if it be idem sonans with that proved, it is su...
Engl. law. The name of a writ which lies for a person taken upon a capias or exigent and committed to prison, for another man of the same name; this w...
evidence. Sameness. 2. It is frequently necessary to identify persons and things. In criminal prosecutions, and in actions for torts and on contracts,...
civil law. This mode of computing time, formerly in use among the Romans, is yet used in several chanceries in, Europe, particularly in that of the po...
med. jur. That condition of mind, in which the reflective, or all or a part of the affective powers, are either entirely wanting, or are manifested to...
Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. on Lu...
This is the name of an old writ which directs the sheriff to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. The inquisition is to be made by a jury of twel...
The refusal or neglect to engage in any lawful employment, in order to gain a livelihood. 2. The vagrant act of 17 G. II. c. 5, which, with some modif...
Eng. law. The name of the old judicial trial by fire....
Public disgrace, infamy, reproach, dishonor. Ignominy is the opposite of esteem. Wolff, 145. See Infamy....
d of using this word, the grand jury endorse on the bill, "Not found." 4 Bl. Com. 305. Vide Grand Jury....
The want of knowledge. 2. Ignorance is distinguishable from error. Ignorance is want of knowledge; error is the non-conformity or opposition of our id...
This is a technical expression, that which means not only bad character as generally understood, but every person, whatever may be his conduct and cha...
Contrary to law; unlawful. 2. It is a general rule, that the law will never give its aid to a party who has entered into an illegal contract, whether ...
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child....
A debt or duty that cannot or ought not to be levied. Nihil set upon a debt is a mark for illeviable....
What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law. Vide Unlawful. 2. This word is frequently used in policies of insurance, where the assured warrants aga...
Unlawfully. 2. This word has a technical meaning, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is unlawful; as, in the case of a riot. 2 Ha...
anization and jurisdiction. 1. Of its organization. 1st. The judges must be citizens of the United States; have resided in the state five years previo...
This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters. 2. When an ignorant man, unable to read, signs a deed or agreement, or makes his mark instead o...
A species of mania in which the sensibility of the nervous system is altered, excited, weakened or perverted. The patient is deceived by the false app...
chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a power as is merely nominal and not substantial. 2. Illusory appointments are...
med. jur. A weakness of the mind, caused by the absence or obliteration of natural or acquired ideas; or it is described to be an abnormal deficiency ...
What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what is informal; as, an immaterial averment, an immaterial issue. 2. When a witness deposes...
One alleging with needless particularity or unnecessary circumstances, what is material and requisite, and which, properly, might have been stated mor...
One taken on a point not proper to decide the action; for example, if in an action of debt on bond, conditioned for the payment of ten dollars and fif...
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause. 2. For imme...
That which commences beyond the time of memory. Vide Memory, time of. IMMEMORIAL POSSESSION. In Louisiana, by this term is understood that of which no...
The removing into one place from another. It differs from emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide Emigration....
One contrary to good morals, and therefore invalid. See Moral obligation....
that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it is not punishable in some cases, at the common law, on, account of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions: ...
civil law. Things are movable or immovable. Immovables, res immobiles, are things in general, such as cannot move themselves or be removed from one pl...
An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. Vide Dig. lib. 50, t. 6; 1 Ch...
What cannot be removed, what is unchangeable. The laws of God being perfect, are immutable, but no human law can be so considered....
rsal law of nations, but it is the law of the state where the contract is made. 12 Wheat. R. 213. Any law which enlarges, abridges, or in any manner c...
pleading and practice. Imparlance, from the French, parler, to speak, or licentia loquendi, in its most general signification, means time given by the...
const. law, punishments. Under the constitution and laws of the United States, an impeachment may be described to be a written accusation, by the hous...
evidence. An allegation, supported by proof, that a witness who has been examined is unworthy of credit. 2. Every witness is liable to be impeached as...
It signifies a restraint from committing waste upon lands or tenements; or a demand of compensation for waste done by a tenant who has but a particula...
its validity, they are dirimant (q. v.) and prohibitive. (q. v.) 1. The absolute impediments are those which prevent the person subject to them from m...
That which is incomplete. 2. This term is applied to rights and obligations. A man has a right to be relieved by his fellow-creatures, when in distres...
The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force of the state to enforce the laws; this is one of the principal attributes of the po...
practice, pleading. What does not appertain, or belong to; id est, qui ad rem non pertinet. 2. Evidence of facts which do not belong to the matter in ...
The obtaining anything by prayer or petition. In the ancient English statutes, it signifies a pre-obtaining of church benefices in England from the ch...
Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of a house....
mar. law. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiving small adventures on freight at so much...
An inference of something not directly declared, but arising from what is admitted or expressed. 2. It is a rule that when the law gives anything to a...
st two-thirds of the crew thereof, shall be proved citizens of the United States, or persons not the Subjects of any foreign prince or state, to the s...
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