Those which are made to punish actions committed before the existence of such laws, and which had not been declared crimes by preceding laws. Declar. ...
Laws of ancient Rome composed in part from those of Solon, and other Greek legislators, and in part from the unwritten laws or customs of the Romans. ...
A code of maritime laws known as the laws of the Hanse towns, or the ordinances of the Hanseatic towns, was first published in German, at Lubec, in 15...
maritime law. A code of sea laws of deserved celebrity. It was originally promulgated by Eleonor, duchess of Guienne, the mother of Richard the First ...
" This city was the ancient capital of Gothland, an island in the Baltic sea, anciently much celebrated for its commerce and wealth, now an obscure an...
maritime. law. A code of laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had, by their commerce and naval victories, obtained the sovereignty of the sea, ab...
A counsellor; one learned in the law. Vide dttorney....
surviving issue, with like effect, as if such devisee or legatee had survived the testator. The testator may however, intentionally exclude such survl...
An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thing, as money, or wheth...
An additional legacy is one which is given by a codicil, besides one before given by the will; or it is an increase by a codicil of a legacy before gi...
One where the testator gives one of two things to the legatee without designating which of them; as, one of my two horses. Vide Election....
A bequest which is to take effect upon the happening or, not happening of a certain event. Lownd. Leg. 166; Rop. Leg. Index, tit. Condition....
A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of a certain sum of money; intended for the legatee at all events, with a fund particularly referred to for its pa...
A bequest of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks ...
A legacy is said to be lapsed or extinguished, when the legatee dies before the testator, or before the condition upon which the legacy is given has b...
A modal legacy is a bequest accompanied with directions as to the mode in which it should be applied for the legatee s benefit; for example, a legacy ...
A pecuniary legacy is one of money; pecuniary legacies are most usually general legacies, but there may be a specific pecuniary legacy; for example, o...
That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies. Madd. Ch. P. 284....
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que ...
One, the right to which may be enforced in a court of law. It is distinguished from an equitable estate, the rights to which can be established only i...
The act of making lawful.2. By legalization, is also understood the act by which a judge or competent officer authenticates a record, or other matter,...
the ambassadors of the pope who are sent to other powers.2. The canonists divide them into three kinds, namely: 1. Legates A latere. 2. Legati missi. ...
ond son of his brother John, when in fact John had no son named Thomas, and his second son was called William; it was held William was entitled. 19 Ve...
A person who stands rectus in curia, who possesses all his civil rights. A lawful man. One who stands rectus in curia, not outlawed nor infamous. In t...
The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods under Pope Gregory IX., and Pope Clement IV., about the years from 1220 to 1230....
One to whom anything is bequeathed; a legatee. This word is sometimes though seldom used to designate a legate or nuncio....
An embassy; a mission.2. All persons attached to a foreign legation, lawfully acknowledged by the government of this country, whether they are ambassa...
dead man s part or share. (q. v.) The third part of a freeman s personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and children, th...
The authority under the constitution to make laws and to alter or repeal them....
One who makes laws.2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the legislator ought therefore, to be thorou...
government. That body of men in the state which has the power of making laws.2. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 1, all legislativ...
n order to make the offspring legitimate; and furthermore the marriage must be lawful, for if it is void ab initio, the children who may be the offspr...
That which is according to law; as, legitimate children, are lawful children, born in wedlock, in contradistinction to bastards; legitimate autbority,...
The act of giving the character of legitimate cbildren to those who were not so born.2. In Louisiana, the Civil Code, art. 217, enacts that "children ...
civil law. That portion of a parent s estate of which he cannot disinherit his children, without a legal cause. The civil code of Louisiana declares t...
5; Poth. Id. n. 85. "The common law seems to recognize the same principles, though," says Judge Story, Bailm. 276, "it would not perhaps be easy to c...
contracts. In the civil law this term is used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a...
He to whom a lease is made. The subject will be considered by taking a view, 1. Of his rights. 2. Of his duties. 2. - 1. He has a right to enjoy the p...
contr. He who grants a lease. Civ. Code of L. art. 2647....
Eng: law. Duties paid for unlading goods in port. Harg. L. Tr. 75....
Hinderance, obstacle, obstruction; as, without let, molestation or hinderance....
than ten years, nor exceeding twenty-one years; and if any person who shall have taken charge of the mails of the United States, shall quit or desert ...
contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to anot...
civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. See Re...
comm. law. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; generally informing him of some act done ...
practice. A written instrument under seal, by which one or more persons, called the constituents, authorize one or more other persons called the attor...
commerce. A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader to his correspondents.2. After notice to the plaintiff to produce a ...
rates of their compensation within the limits aforesaid, subject to, and until the final action of, the postmaster general thereon. And such appointme...
international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state, to the sovereign or state to whom a public minister...
contracts. An open or sealed letter, from a merchant in one place, directed to another, in another place or country, requiring him that if a person th...
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