A measure of length, equal to two inches and a quarter. Vide Measure....
This word is used in a metaphorical sense to denote that a thing is not complete, and for want of some quality it is either without power, or it posse...
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin. 2. The Greeks, as is well known, bore only one name, an...
The act of congress of December 31, 1792, concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels, provides, 3. That every ship or vessel, herea...
An old word which signifies the taking or distraining another person s movable goods; 2 Inst. 140; 3 Bl. Com. 149 a distress. Dalr. Feud. Pr. 113....
pleading. An abbreviation of the word narratio; a declaration in the cause....
A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete....
English law. Those seas which adjoin the coast of England. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, B 3....
The state of condition of a man acquired by birth....
All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under the name of national or public domain. 2. Care must be taken not to confound the pub...
The state of a person in relation to the nation in which he was born. 2. A man retains his nationality of origin during bis minority, but, as in the c...
Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by t...
All persons born within the jurisdiction of the United States, are considered as natives. 2. Natives will be classed into those born before the declar...
The affection which a husband, a father, a brother, or other near relative, naturally feels towards those who are so nearly allied to him, sometimes s...
In the phraseology of the English or American law, natural children are children born out of wedlock, or bastards, and are distinguished from legitima...
That which is founded in natural justice, in honesty and right, and which arises ex aequo et bono. It corresponds precisely with the definition of jus...
it, but which cannot be enforeed in a court of justice. Poth. n. 173, and n. 191. See Obligation....
evidence. Presumptions of fact; those which depend upon their own form and efficacy in generating belief or conviction in the mind, as derived from th...
That space of time included between the rising and the setting of the sun. See Day....
An idiot; one born without the reasoning powers, or a capacity to acquire them....
The natural production of trees, bushes, and other plants, for the use of men and animals, and for the reproduction of such trees, bushes or plants. 2...
act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject." App. Ma 26, 1824. 23. - 1. Be it enact...
One who, being born an alien, has lawfully become a citizen of the United States Under the constitution and laws. 2. He has all the rights of a natura...
French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, the impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed up, or ...
Strictly speaking, only carriers by water are comprehended under this word. But the rules which regulate such carriers have been applied to carriers b...
The name of an officer of the United States, whose duties are prescribed by various acts of congress. 2. Naval officers are appointed for the term of ...
civil law. He who had the management and care of a ship. The same as our sea captain. Bouch. Inst. n. 359. Vide Captain....
to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 6...
The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships or other vessels; the art of ascertaining the geographical position of a ship, and directing ...
The whole shippings taken collectively, belonging to the government of an independent nation; the ships belonging to private individuals are not inclu...
pleading. The general issue in quare impedit. Hob. 162 Vide Rast, 517; Winch. Ent. 703....
He did not deliver. This is a plea in detinue, by which the defendant denies the delivery to him of the thing sued for....
pleading. The general issue in formedon; and is in the following formula: "And the said C D, by J K, his attorney, comes and defends the right, when, ...
Ch. R. 499. It may be allowed in a case to prevent the failure of justice. 2 Johns. Chanc. Rep. 191. When tlie demand is strictly legal, it cannot be ...
civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. ...
That it be not received. A caveat or words of caution given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his oppone...
The name of a replication to a plea, of release, by which tlie plaintiff insists he did not release. 2 Buls. 55....
ld Engl. law. The name of a writ which issued to relieve a tenant upon, whom his lord had distrained for more services than he was bound to perform. 2...
pleading. A plea by which the party denies that he ever was lawfully married to the person to whom it refers. See the form, 2 Wils. R. 118; Morg. 582;...
pleading. A plea by which the party who uses it denies that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be; or that the defendant is executor, as th...
pleading. A plea by which a defendant denies the right of a widow who sues for, and demands her dower in lands, &c., late of her husband, because the ...
pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant affirms that he never was receiver of tlie plaintiff. 12 Vin. Ab. ...
These words, which literally signify that it be not varied or changed, are sometimes written by notaries public upon bills or notes, for the purpose o...
contracts. The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped....
pleading. The statement, in apt and appropriate words, of all the necessary facts, and ne more. Lawes on Pl. 62....
Such things as are proper and requisite for tlie sustenance of man. 2. The term necessaries is not confined merely to what is requisite barely to supp...
The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, vests in congress the power " to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper, for carrying...
Scotch law. When the husband or wife continues, after the decease of his or her companion in possession of the decedent s goods, for their preservatio...
law. 4. The cases which are justified by necessity, may be classed as follows: I. For the preservation of life; as if two persons are on the same plan...
Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, 16, 137....
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