Eng. eccl. law. The boasting by an individual that he or she has married another, from which it may happen that they will acquire the reputation of be...
The same as jettison. (q. v.) 1 Bell s Com. 586, 5th ed....
A prison; a place appointed by law for the detention of prisoners. A jail is an inhabited dwelling-house within the statute of New York, which makes t...
This is a law French phrase, which signifies, "I am in an error; I have failed." There are certain statutes called statutes of amendment and jeofails ...
Peril, danger. 2. This is the meaning attached to this word used in the act establishing and regulating the post office department. The words of the a...
Engl. law. An officer of the custom-house, who oversees the waiters. Techn. Dict. h. t....
The casting out of a vessel, from necessity, a part of the lading; the thing cast out also bears the same name; it differs from flotsam in this, that ...
French law. This is a kind of gambling or speculation, which consists of sales and purchase s, which bind neither of the parties to deliver the things...
See De Judaismo Statutum....
By this term is understood among workmen, the whole of a thing which is to be done. In this sense it is employed in the Civil Code of Louisiana, art. ...
commerce. One who buys end sells articles for others. Stock jobbers are those who buy, and sell stocks for others; this term is also applied to those ...
Jewels; this term was formerly more properly applied to those ornaments which women, although married, call their own. When these jocalia are not suit...
practice. The putting two or more causes of action in the same declaration. 2. It is a general rule, that in real actions there can never be but one c...
When a demurrer is offered by one party, the adverse party joins with him in demurrer, and the answer which he makes is called a joinder in demurrer. ...
pleadings. The act by which the parties to a cause arrive at that stage of it in their pleadings, that one asserts a fact to be so, and the other deni...
It is a rule in actions ex contractu that all who have a legal interest in the contract, and no others, must join in action founded on a breach of suc...
United, not separate; as, joint action, or one which is brought by several persons acting together; joint bond, a bond given by two or more obligors....
One in which the contractors are jointly bound to perform the promise or obligation therein contained, or entitled to receive the benefit of such prom...
It is proposed to consider, 1. The interest which they have in the estate of the deceased. 2. How far they are liable for each other s acts. 3. The ri...
In England they are a species of quasi corporations, or companies regulated by deeds of settlement; and, in this respect, the stand in the same situat...
estates. Two or more persons to whom are granted land s or tenements to hold in fee simple, fee tail, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Black. Com. 1...
who are entrusted with property for the benefit of one or more others. 2. Unlike joint executors, joint trustees cannot act separately, but must join ...
A woman who has an estate settled on her by her hushand, to hold during her life, if she survive him. Co. Litt. 46....
estates.. A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements; to take effect in profit or possession, presently after the death o...
A French word, signifying day. It is used in our old law books, as, tout jours, for ever. It is also frequently employed in the composition of words, ...
mar. law. The book kept on board of a ship or other vessel, which contains an account of the ship s course, with a short history of every occurrence d...
common law. A book used among merchants, in which the contents of the waste-book are separated every month, and entered on the debtor and creditor sid...
legislation. An account of the proceedings of a legislative body. 2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 5, directs that "each house sha...
Eng. practice. When a writ abated without any fault of the plaintiff, he was permitted to sue out a new writ, within as little time as he possibly cou...
This word has several significations: 1. The judge, one who declares the law, quijus dicit; one who administers justice between the parties to a cause...
A judge from whom an appeal may be taken; a judge of a court below. See A quo; 6 Mart. Lo. Rep. 520....
A judge to whom an appeal may be taken: a superior judge....
peached. 5 John. R. 282; 8 Cowen, R. 178; 4 Dall. R. 225.6. A judge is not competent as a witness in a cause trying before him, for this, among other ...
An officer who, is a member of a court martial. 2. His duties are to prosecute in the name of the United States, but he shall so far consider himself ...
They are short statements, made by a judge on the trial of a cause, of what transpires in the course of such trial. They usually contain a statement o...
84; 2 Watts, R. 95; 1 Penn. R. 138. 40. Judgment quod recuperet. When an issue in law, other than one arising on a dilatory plea, or an issue in fact,...
practice. This takes place when the court withhold judgment from the plaintiff on the ground that there is some error appearing on the face of the rec...
Eng. law. A record made of the issue roll, (q. v.) which, after final judgment has been given in the cause, assumes this name. Steph. Pl. 133. Vide Is...
The state of those employed in the administration of justice, and in this sense it is nearly synonymous with judiciary. This term is also used to sign...
Among the Romans, the praetors, and other great magistrates, did not themselves decide the actions which arose between private individuals these were ...
radistinction to an original writ. 3 Bl. Com. 282. 4. Judicial decisions, are the opinions or determinations of the judges in causes before them. Hale...
Those which are generally made in writing in court by the attorney of the party; they appear upon the record, as in the pleadings and the like....
criminal law. Those voluntarily made before a magistrate, or in a court, in the due course of legal proceedings. A preliminary examination, taken in w...
Agreements entered into in consequence of an order of court; as, for example, entering into a bond on taking out a writ of sequestration. 6 N. S. 494....
In Louisiana, it is the lien resulting from judgments, whether these be rendered on contested cases, or by default, whether they be final or provision...
A sale by authority of some competent tribunal, by an officer authorized by law for the purpose. 2. The officer who makes the sale, conveys all the ri...
Eng. practice. The capias and all other writs subsequent to the original writ not issuing out of chancery, but from the court into which the original ...
That which is done while administering justice; the judges taken collectively; as, the liberties of the people are secured by a wise and independent j...
The judgment of God. The English law formerly impiously called the judgments on trials by ordeal, by battle, and the like, the judgments of God....
This term is Spanish, and is used in Louisiana. It is the name of an action brought for the purpose of making a distribution of an insolvent s estate....
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