A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully required to...
The performance of a command. 2. Officers who obey the command of their superiors, having jurisdiction of the subject-matter, are not responsible for ...
That particular solemnity or office for the dead, which the Roman Ca- tholic church appoints to be read or performed over the body of a deceased membe...
eccl. law. In a general sense the property which accrues to the church by any right or title whatever; but, in a more limited sense, it is that which ...
discharged. 29. The obligation is personal in another sense, as when the obligor binds himself to do a thing, and he provides his heirs and executors ...
By this expression, which is used in the consti- tution of the United States, is meant a legal and not merely a moral duty. 4 Wheat. 107. The obligati...
contracts. The person in favor of whom some obliga- tion is contracted, whether such obligation be to pay money, or to do, or not to do something. Lou...
The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. Louis. Code, art. 3522, No. 12. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is appli...
civil law. Surprise. Dig. 3,5,8,1. Vide Surprise. ...
crim. law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals. 2. The exhibition of an obscene ...
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by...
crim. law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process. 2. The officer must be prevented...
3. - 1. The taking must be such as the nature of the time requires; if, for example, two persons were walking on the sea-shore, and one of them should...
One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. 2. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or ...
Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. (q. v.) 2. In anoth...
The name of a writ, which lies to recover the possession of lands, when they have been taken from the possession of the owner by occupation. (q. v.) 3...
One who is in the enjoyment of a thing. 2. He may be the occupier by virtue of a lawful contract, either express or implied, or without any contract. ...
A government where the authority is in the hands of the multi- tude; the abuse of a democracy. Vaumene, Dict. du Language Politique. ...
The same as allodial. ...
That which may be done, in the course of legal proceedings, without making any application to the court; that which is granted by the court without fu...
crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. (q....
contracts. A proposition to do a thing. 2. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfilment of the contract, and this righ...
tenure of office never extends beyond good behaviour. In England, offices are public or private. The former affect the people generally, the latter ar...
evidence. A book kept in a public office, not appertaining to a court, authorized by the law of any state. 2. An exemplification, (q. v.) of any such ...
A transcript of a record or proceeding filed in an office established by law, certified under the seal of the proper officer. ...
Eng. law. When an inquisition is made to the king s use of anything, by virtue of office of him who inquires, and the inquisition is found, it is said...
An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office. Vide Inquisition. ...
He who is lawfully invested with an office. 2. Officers may be classed into, 1. Executive; as the president of the United States of America, the sever...
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official. 2. In the...
Eng. law. The chancery is so called, because all writs issue from it, under the great seal returnable into the courts of common law. ...
EX. By virtue of one s office. Vide Ex officio; 3 Bl. Com. 447. ...
ee years, and shall receive such compensation, payable out of the county treasury, or by fees, or both; as shall be provided by law. 53. - §8. The pro...
This needs no definition. Sometimes old age is the cause of loss of memory and of the powers of the mind, when the party may be found non compos menti...
The title of an old English book, (usually cited Vet. N. B.) so called to distinguish it from the F. N. B. It contains the writs most in use in the re...
The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward II...
The name of a maritime code. Vide Laws of Oleron. ...
This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people. Among...
When applied to wills or testaments, this term signifies that they are wholly written by the testator himself. Vide Civil, Code of Louisiana, art. 158...
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires. 2. When a public law enjoins on certain officers duties to be performed by them for the p...
A good plea in bar, where all the covenants are in the affirmative. 1 Greenl. R. 189. ...
mercant. law. A term used to express the aggregate value of the dif- ferent stocks in which a loan is usually funded. 2 Esp. Rep. 361; 7 T. R. 630. ...
The name of a plea by which the defendant says that he ought not to be charged. lt is used in an action of debt. 1 Saund. 290, n. a. ...
sufficiently strong for the weight it has to bear. Dig. 8, 2, 23; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1627. ...
civil law., A valuable consideration. ...
civil law. One made for a consideration given or promised, however small. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 1767. ...
civil law. The gift of a thing subject to certain charges which the giver has imposed on the donee. Poth. h. t. ...
evidence. The burden of the proof. 2. It is a general rule, that the party who alleges the affirmative of any proposition shall prove it. It is also a...
The term sufficiently explains its meaning. By the constitution of some states, and by the laws and practice of all the others, the courts are require...
An open policy is one in which the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, and is to be ascertained in case of loss. Vide Po...
The act of the court by which a judgment is so far annulled that it cannot be executed, but which still retains some qualities of a judgment; as, for ...
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