The name given to grants made in the early feudal ages, which were mere tenancies at will, or during the pleasure of the grantor. Dalr. Feud. 198, 199...
Strictly, this word applies only to what belongs to a city. Among the Romans, cities were called municipia; these cities voluntarily joined the Roman ...
The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests....
The instruments of writing and written evidences which the owner of lands, possessions, or inheritances has, by which he is enabled to defend the titl...
A toll formerly levied in England for repairing or building public walls....
Monuments made in walls.2. Owing to the difficulty or impossibility of removing them, secondary evidence may be given of inscriptions on walls, fixed ...
crim. law. This, one of the most important crimes that can be committed against individuals, has been variously defined. Hawkins defines it to be the ...
pleadings. In an indictment for murder, it must be charged that the prisoner "did kill and murder" the deceased, and unless the word murder be introdu...
old Engl. law. During the times of the Danes, and afterwards till the reign of Edward III, murdrum was the killing of a man in a secret manner, and in...
The act of congress of February 3, 1831, authorizes the granting of a copyright for a musical composition. A question was formerly agitated whether a ...
maritime law; A written document containing the name s, ages, quality, place of residence, and, above all, place of birth, of every person of the ship...
This name is given to the issue of an Indian and a negro. Dudl. S. Car. R. 174....
French law. This term is synonymous with change, and is particularly applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in i...
practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, or ...
The necessary changes. This is a phrase of frequent practical occurrence, meaning that matters or things are generally the same, but to be altered, wh...
persons. One who is dumb. Vide Deaf and Dumb....
practice, crim. law. When a prisoner upon his arraignment totally refuses to answer, insists upon mere frivolous pretences, or refuses to put himself ...
crim. law. The depriving a man of the use of any of those limbs, which may be useful to him in fight, the loss of which amounts to mayhem. 1 Bl. Com. ...
crimes. The unlawful resistance of a superior officer, or the raising of commotions and disturbances on board of a ship against the authority of its c...
Reciprocal.2. In contracts there must always be a consideration in order to make them valid. This is sometimes mutual, as when one man promises to pay...
contracts. A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him, and returned to the lender in kind; the person who receives the benefit arisi...
or loan for consumption, contracts. A loan of personal chattels to be consumed by the borrower, and to be returned to the lender in kind and quantity;...
This word is said to be derived from the French mestier now written mātier, a trade. In law it signifies a trade, art, or occupation. 2 Inst. 668.2. M...
In a secret manner; concealed; as mystic testament, for a secret testament. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 3138; Testament Mystic....
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