An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R. 91. 2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, b...
That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet isusually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated....
One sued or impleaded, who refuses or has nothing to answer....
That which is undefined; uncertain....
executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take ...
A number which may be increased or diminished at pleasure. 2. When a corporation is composed of an indefinite number of persons, any number of them co...
contracts. That which a debtor who owes several debts to a creditor, makes without making an appropriation; (q. v.) in that case the creditor has a ri...
That which is given to a person to prevent his suffering damage. 2 McCord, 279. Sometimes it signifies diminution; a tenant who has been interrupted i...
conveyancing. An instrument of writing containing a conveyance or contract between two or more persons, usually indented or cut unevenly, or in and ou...
A state of perfect irresponsibility to any superior; the United States are free and independent of all earthly power. 2. Independence may be divided i...
One in which the mutual acts or promises have no relation to each other, either as equivalents or considerations. Civil Code of Lo. art. 1762; 1 Bouv....
That which is uncertain or not particularly designated; as, if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 9...
A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. 2. Such a tribe, situated within the bounda...
The aborigines of this country are so called. 2. In general, Indians have no political rights in the United States; they cannot vote at the general el...
ce four years, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law. 19. - 9. There shall be elected in each judicial circuit by the voters thereof, a prosecut...
civil law. Signs, marks. Example: in replevin, the chattel must possess indicia, or earmarks, by which it can be distinguished from all others of the ...
practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted....
computation of time. An indiction contained a space of fifteen years. 2. It was used in dating at Rome and in England. It began at the dismission of t...
he offence, that no other terms, however synonymous they may seem, are capable of filling the same office: such, for example, as traitorously, (q. v.)...
He who causes another to be indicted. The latter is sometimes called the indictee....
To have no bias nor partiality. 7 Conn. 229. A juror, an arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not so, they may be cha...
That proof which does not prove the fact in question, but proves another, the certainty of which may lead to the discovery of the truth of the one sou...
That which cannot be separated. 2. It is important to ascertain when a consideration or a contract, is or is not indivisible. When a consideration is ...
That which two or more persons hold in common without partition; undivided. (q. v.)...
contracts. The person in whose favor an indorsement is made, 2. He is entitled to all the rights of the indorser, and, if the bill or note have been i...
crin. law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is ...
contracts. In its most general acceptation, it is what is written on the back of an instrument of writing, and which has relation to it; as, for examp...
t conditional, which will operate as a transfer of the bill, if the condition be performed; or he may make it qualified, so that he shall not be respo...
pleading. The statement of matter which is introductory to the principal subject of the declaration or plea, &c., but which is necessary to explain an...
contracts, evidence. The moving cause of an action. 2. In contracts, the benefit.which the obligor is to receive is the inducement to making them. Vid...
Scotch law. The days between the citation of the defendant, and the day of appearance. Bell s Scotch Law Dict. h. t. The days between the test and the...
eccles. law. The giving a clerk, instituted to a benefice, the actual possession of its temporalties, in the nature of livery of seisin. Ayl. Parerg. ...
A favor granted. 2. It is a general rule that where a creditor gives .indulgence, by entering into a binding contract with a principal debtor, by whic...
The incapacity to be lawfully elected. 2. This incapacity arises from various, causes, and a person may be incapable of being elected to one office wh...
A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with fortuitous. event. (q. v.) 2 Sm. & Marsh. 572. In the common law commonly called the ad of God. (...
Among the Romans was of a general rule, and not by virtue of an arbitrary decision of the censors, lost his political rights, but preserved his civil ...
crim. law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of crime and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a...
The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years. Vide Infant....
2. But he is reputed to be twenty-one years old, or of full age, the first instant of the last day of the twenty-first year next before the anniversar...
med. juris. The murder of a new born infant, Dalloz, Dict. Homicide, 4; Code Penal, 300. There is a difference between this offence and those known by...
estates. The act or instrument of feoffment. (q. v.) In Scotland it is synonymous with saisine, meaning the instrument of possession; formerly it was ...
A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. 2. It is the province of the judge who is to decide upon the facts to draw the infere...
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is boun...
By this term are understood all courts except the supreme courts. An inferior court is a court of limited jurisdiction, and it must appear on the face...
ince the declarations proved when the declarations have been made for a very considerable space of time, slight proof will suffice to show he has chan...
Weak, feeble. 2. When a witness is infirm to an extent likely to destroy his life, or to prevent his attendauce at the trial, his testimony de bene es...
Authority, credit, ascendance. 2. Influence is proper or improper. Proper influence is that which one person gains over another by acts of kindness an...
The waut of those forms required by law. Informality is a good ground for a plea in abatement. Com. Dig. Abatement, H 1, 6; Lawes, Pl. 106; Gould, Pl....
An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. It...
remedies. The name of a proceeding against any one who usurps a franchise or office. 2. Informations of this kind are filed in the highest courts of o...
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