A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the same. This name is also given to an appending seal....
Continued operation; work.2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership, and valued as equal to the capital of another.3. When...
This word, derived from the French lecher, is nearly synonymous with negligence.2. In general, when a party has been guilty of laches in enforcing his...
The name of a functioner in the British house of commons. When the husband sues for a divorce, or asks the passage of an act to divorce him from his w...
The law; Magna Carta; hence Saxon-lage, Mercen-lage, Dane-lage, &c. ...
Goods tied to a buoy and cast into the sea are so called. The same as Ligan. (q.v.)...
The name of a fine imposed upon those who committed adultery or fornication. Tech. Dict. h. t. ...
Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, bu...
A ram, sheep or ewe, under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216; S. C. 19 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 351....
This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath. It has an indefinite extent ...
A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land mark an action lies. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 787. ...
He who actually possesses the land. He is technically called the terre-tenant. (q. v.)...
He who rents or leases real estate to another.2. He is bound to perform certain duties and is entitled to certain rights, which will here be briefly c...
The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds. This is the definition of spo...
practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is so dangerously sick that to remove him ...
eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from, a person vested with such right, to anot...
One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons. See Legacy, Lapsed.2. A distinction has been made between a lapsed d...
here are statutory provisions to punish the felonious taking of emblements or fruits of plants, while the same are hanging by the roots, and there the...
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty....
The name of a code of Spanish law; sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of its principal divisions. It is a compil...
law of Connecticut. An offence, ill defined, created by statute, which enacts that every person who shall be guilty of lascivious carriage and behavio...
A court of last resort, is one which decides, definitely, without appeal or writ of error, or any other examination whatever, a suit or action, or som...
That of which a person died.2. The expenses of this sickness are generally entitled to a preference, in payment of debts of an insolvent estate. Civ. ...
construction. That which is concealed; or which does not appear; for example, if a testator bequeaths to his cousin Peter his white horse; and at the ...
Eng. law. He lies hid. The name of a writ calling a defendant to answer to a personal action in the king s bench; it derives its name from a suppositi...
Small vessels employed to carry the cargo of a large one to and from the shore; lighters. (q. v.)2. The goods on board of a launch are at the risk of ...
In its most general and comprehensive sense, law signifies a rule of action; and this term is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action; whether...
An arbitrary law is one made by the legislator simply because he wills it, and is not founded in the nature of things; such law, for example, as the t...
dil;die, Droit Canonique, Droit Public Ecclesiastique; Dict. de Jurispr. Droit Canonique; Ersk. Pr. L. Scotl. B. 1, t. 1, s. 10. See, in general, Ayl....
The term civil law is generally applied by way of eminence to the civil or municipal law of the Roman empire, without distinction as to the time when ...
The common law is that which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practice of the people. It has never received t...
By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defines crimes, and ...
By foreign laws are understood the laws of a foreign country. The states of the American Union are for some purposes foreign to each other, and the la...
The law of nature applied to the affairs of nations, commonly called the law of nations, jus gentium; is also called by some modern authors internatio...
Martial law is a code established for the government of the army and navy of the United States.2. Its principal rules are to be found in the articles ...
hose customs constitute a part of the general law of the land; and being a part of that law their existence cannot be proved by witnesses, but the jud...
Municipal law is defined by Mr. Justice Blackstone to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right...
The science which teaches the rights subsisting between nations or states, and the obligations correspondent to those rights. Vattel s Law of Nat. Pre...
endry, (q. v.) are contrary to the law of nature. Hence it follows that the husband and wife have a mutual and exclusive right over each other.6. - 4....
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment....
Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1. The universal voluntary law, or those rules whi...
An act of the legislature which relates to some private matters, which do not concern the public at large....
One which provides for, and regulates the future acts of men, and does not interfere in any way with what has past....
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest....
A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed.2. Whenever a law of this kind impairs the obligation of con...
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed by the constitution; an act of the legislature. See Statute....
or lex non scripta. All the laws which do not come under the definition of written law; it is composed, principally, of the law of nature, the law of ...
or lex scripta. This consists of the constitution of the United States the constitutions of the several states the acts of the different legislatures,...
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. ...
Without law; without lawful control....
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