When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb.2. This letter is sometim...
Eng. law. An officer attending the court of session....
civil law. A decree of the Roman senate, which derived its name from that of a certain usurer who was the cause of its being made, in consequence of h...
The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot....
A contrivance which serves to apply or regulate moving power; or it is a tool more or less complicated, which is used to render useful natural instrum...
These words are used as a return to a scire facias, when it has been served on the defendant....
A master, a ruler, one whose learning and position makes him su- perior to others, thus: one who has attained to a high degree, or eminence, in scienc...
Eng. eccl. law. The title of an officer who grants dispensations; as, to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited, and the like. Bac. Ab. Eccles. Courts...
The master of a ship; a sea captain. ...
Civil law. The principal manager of the business of a society or partnership....
mun. law. In its most enlarged signification, this term includes all officers, legislative, executive, and judicial. For example, in most of the state...
mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower se...
The great charter. The name of an instrument granted by King John, June 19, 1215, which secured to the English people many liberties which had before ...
The name of an instrument formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. ...
This word, derived from the French malle, a trunk, signifies the bag, valise, or other contrivance used in conveying through the post office, letters,...
ancient English law. A small piece of money; it also signified a rent, because the rent was paid with maile....
pleadings. This is a technical word necessary to be introduced into all indictments for mayhem; the words "feloniously did maim," must of necessity be...
One of the new states of the United State s of America. This state was admitted into the Union by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1820, 3 Story s L. U...
crim. law. The thing stolen found in the hands of the thief who hasstolen it; hence when a man is found with property which he has stolen, he is said ...
Capable of being bailed; one for whom bail may be taken; bailable....
English law. Those persons to whom a man, is delivered out of custody or prison, on their becoming bound for his appearance.2. Mainpernors differ from...
Engl. law. The taking a man into friendly custody, who might otherwise be committed to prison, upon security given for his appearance at a time and pl...
crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to it against t...
quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find m...
pleadings. This is a technical word, indispensable in an indict- ment for maintenance, which no other word or circumlocution will supply. 1 Wils. 325....
criminal law. Those who maintain or support a cause depending between others, not being retained as counsel or attorney. For this they may be fined an...
House of God. In England the term, borrowed from the French, signified formerly a hospital, an almshouse, a monastery. 39 Eliz. c. 5....
Properly speaking, this term can be applied only to God, for it signifies that which surpasses all things in grandeur and superiority. But it is used ...
persons. One who has attained his full age, and has acquired all his civil rights; one who is no longer a minor; an adult....
Military language. The lowest of the staff officers; a degree higher than captain. ...
A military officer, commanding a division or number of regi- ments; the next in rank below a lieutenant general....
The male ascendant beyond the sixth degree were so called among the Romaus, and the term is still used in making genealogical tables....
persons. The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition...
government. The greater number of the voters; though in another sense, it means the greater number of votes given in which sense it is a mere pluralit...
This term is applied to one who makes a promissory note and promises to pay it when due. He who makes a bill of exchange is called the drawer, and fre...
A phrase used to denote the act of a person who wages his law. Bac. Ab. Wager of law, in pr....
Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith....
in a state of intoxication, from which injury would arise to his patient.5. - 3. Ignorant mal practice, which is the administration of medicines, calc...
Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.2. A distinction was formerly made in respect of contracts, between mala prohibita an...
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female. Vide Gender; Man; Sex; Worthiest of blood....
Eccles. law. A curse which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches and religious houses, against those who should violate their r...
He who bas been guilty of some crime; in another sense, one who has been convicted of having committed a crime....
civil law. Waste, damage, torts, injury. Dig. 5, 18, 1....
contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from mis- feasance...
crim. law. A wicked intention to do an injury. 4 Mason, R. 115, 505: 1 Gall. R. 524. It is not confined to the intention of doing an injury to any par...
torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause.2. This term, as applied to torts, does not necessarily mean that which must procee...
pleadings. In an indictment for murder, these words, which have a technical force, must be used in charging the offence; for without them, and the art...
With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked. ...
The forsaking without a just cause a husband by the wife, or a wife by her husband. Vide Abandonment, Malicious....
This expression is applied to the wanton or reckless de- struction of property, and the wilful perpetration of injury to the person. Alis. Prin. 448; ...
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