Upon the same matter or subject. Statutes in pari materia are to be construed together....
For the perpetual memory or remembrance of a thing. Gilb. For. Rom. 118....
remedies. A remedy in personam, is one where the proceedings are against the person, in contradistinction to those which are against specific things, ...
In possibility; not in actual existence; used in contradistinction to in esse....
At the present time; used in opposition to in futuro. A marriage contracted in words de praesenti is good; as, I take Paul to be my hushand, is a good...
At the beginning this is frequently used in citations; as Bac. Ab. Legacies, in pr....
In his own person; himself; as the defendant appeared in propria persona; the plaintiff argued the cause in propria persona....
In the matter; as in re A B, in the matter of A B....
In things, cases or matters....
remedies. This technical term is used to designate proceedings or actions instituted against the thing, in contradistinction to personal actions which...
In the nature of things; in existence....
A term used in the civil law, to signify that a contract is joint. 2. Obligations are in solido, first, between several creditors; secondly, between s...
In the same situation; in the same place; as, between the time of the submission and the time when the award was rendered, things remained in statu qu...
By way of threat, terror, or warning. For example, when a legacy is given to a person upo condition not to dispute the validity or the dispositions in...
To the terror of the people. An indictment for a riot is bad, unless it conclude in terrorem populi. 4 Carr. & Payne, 373....
In just so many words; as, the legislature has declared this to be a crime in totidem verhis....
In the whole; wholly; completely; as, the award is void in toto. In the whole the part is contained: in toto et pars continetur. Dig. 50, 17, 123....
During the transit, or removal from one place to another. 2. The transit continues until the goods have arrived at their place of destination, and not...
In pledge; in gage....
hildren living at the death of the father. 1 Ves. 85.7. - 6. Is capable of taking a legacy, and is entitled to a share in a fund bequeathed to childre...
These words, which, when conveyancing was in the Latin language, were in cujus rei testimonium, are the initial words of the concluding clause in deed...
This term is applied to indicate the want of a sufficient consideration for a thing sold,or such a price as, under ordinary circumstances, would be co...
What cannot be received. Parol evidence, for example, is inadmissible to contradict a written agreement....
This word is applied to those things, the property of which cannot be lawfully transferred from one person to another. Public highways and rivers are ...
This word was applied by the Romans to the ceremony of dedicating some temple, or raising some man to the priesthood, after the augurs had been consul...
The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something. 2. It arises from nature, from the law, or from both. From nature, when the...
crim. law. One who maliciously and wilfully sets another person s house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson. 2. This offence is punished by the ...
The commencement; the beginning. In making a will, for example, the writing is its inception. 3 Co. 31 b; Plowd. 343. Vide Consummation; Progression....
The carnal copulation of a man and a woman related to each other in any of the degrees within which marriage is prohibited by law. Vide Marriage. It i...
From the Latin uncia. A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot....
That which is not yet completed or finished. Contracts are considered inchoate until they are executed by all the parties who ought to have executed t...
A thing depending upon, appertaining to, or following another, called the princinal. 2. The power of punishing for contempt is incident to a court of ...
practice. This word, which means "it is begun," signifies the commencement of the entry on the roll. on signing judgment, &c....
Comprehended in computation. In computing time, as ten days from a particular time, one day is generally to be included and one excluded. Vide article...
The gain which proceeds from property, labor, or business; it is applied particularly to individuals; the income of the government is usually called r...
nnsylvania, the acts of the 12th of February, 1802, 3 Smith s Laws of Pa. 485; and 6th of March, 1812, 5 Sm. L. Pa. 309, contain various provisions, m...
French law. The state of a judge who cannot take cognizance of a dispute brought before him; it implies a want of jurisdiction. 2. Incompetency is mat...
evidence. The want of legal fitness, or ability in a witness to be heard as such on the trial of a cause. 2. The objections to the competency (q. v.) ...
What does not put an end to a thing. Inconclusive presumptions are those which may be overcome by opposing proof; for example, the law presumes that h...
Impudicity, the indulgence in unlawful carnal connexions. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. 862....
This term is frequently confounded, particularly in the old books, with corporation. The distinction between them is this, that by incorporation is un...
civil law. The union of one domain to another....
Not consisting of matter. 2. Things incorporeal. are those which are not the object of sense, which cannot be seen or felt, but which we can easily, c...
title, estates. A right issuing out of, or annexed unto a thing corporeal. 2. Their existence is merely in idea and abstracted contemplation, though t...
civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions. Vide Corporeal property....
eccles. law. A clerk resident on his benefice with cure; he is so called because he does, or ought to, bend the whole of his studies to his duties. In...
Whatever is a lien upon an estate. 2. The right of a third person in the land in question to the diminution of the value of the land, though consisten...
remedies, pleadings. That species of action of assumpsit, in which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration, first a debt, and then a promise in consi...
civil law. The payment to one of what is not due to him. If the payment was made by mistake, the civilians recovered it back by an action called condi...
pposite party until the rendition of the judgment on the award. 1 Mass. 134. See Creditor; Debt; Debtor....
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