This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of one who dies in...
A workman; one employed to perform labor for another. 2. This word is used in the bankrupt law of 19th August, 1841, s. 5, which directs that any pers...
practice. A declaration by a counsel to his client of what the law is, according to his judgment, on a statement of facts submitted to him. The paper ...
ked up. 3 Dougl. R. 158; S. C. 26 Eng. C. L. Rep. 63; 1 Phil. Ev. 276; 4 T. R. 498. A ship builder may be asked his opinion on a question of sea-worth...
judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes called an opi...
practice. The act of a creditor who, declares his dissent to a debtor s being discharged under the insolvent laws. ...
One who having public authority uses it unlawfully to tyrannize over another; as, if he keep him in prison until he shall do something which he is not...
civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy. (q. v.) ...
Choice; Election; (q. v.) where the subject is considered. ...
This syllable in the termination of words has an active signification, and usually denotes the doer of an act; as, the grantor, he who makes a grant; ...
civil law. The name of a kind of decisions given by the Roman emperors. ...
Something spoken in contradistinction to something written; as oral evidence, which is evidence delivered verbally by a witness, ...
practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profession d Av...
To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law. 2. In the constitution of the United States, the preamble. declares that the people "do ordain and ...
An ancient superstitious mode of tribal. When in a criminal case the accused was arraigned, be might select the mode of trial either by God and his co...
government. By this expression is understood the several bodies which compose the state. In ancient Rome, for example, there were three distinct order...
contracts. An indorsement or short writing put upon the back of a negotiable bill or note, for the purpose of passing the title to it, and making it p...
French law. The act by which the rank of preferences of claims among creditors who have liens over the price which arises out of the sale of an immova...
3d. The birth place of the child; 4th. The examination of the putative father and of the mother; but, it is said, the presence of the putative father ...
A conditional order which is to be confirmed unless something be done, which has been required, by a time specified. Eden. Inj. 122. ...
Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2. Orders also signify the instruct...
legislation. A law, a statute, a decree. 2. This word is more usually applied to the laws of a corporation, than to the acts of the legislature; as th...
An act of congress which regulates the territories of the United States. It is printed in 3 Story, L. U. S. 2073. Some parts of this ordinance were de...
civil and eccles. law. An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right and not by deputation. 2. In England the ordinary is an officer who h...
civil and eccles. law. The act of conferring the orders of the church upon an individual. Nov. 137. ...
Verbally. orally. Formerly the pleadings of the parties were ore tenus, and the practice is said to have been retained till the reign of Edward the Th...
itants of the district, or county or counties, for which they may be elected respectively. Previous to the first election, the governor shall cause a ...
contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or imitated. It also mea...
y a merchant, tradesman, or other person in his account books, charging another with merchandise, materials, work, or labor, or cash, on a contract ma...
practice. That which is given to courts to take cognizance of cases which may be instituted in those courts in the first instance. The constitution of...
practice, English law. A mandatory letter issued in the king s name, sealed with his great seal, and directed to the sheriff of the county wherein the...
Eng. law. The transcripts and other documents sent to the office of the treasurer-remembrancer in the exchequer, are called by this name to distinguis...
An embellisment. In questions arising as to which of two things is to be considered as principal or accessory, it is the rule, that an ornament shall ...
A minor or infant who has lost both of his or her parents. Sometimes the term is applied to such a person who has lost only one of his or her parents....
Engl. law. By the custom of London, when a freeman of that city dies, his estate is divided into three parts, as follows: one third part to the widow;...
The name of a court in some of the states, having jurisdic- tion of the estates and persons of orphans. ...
civil law. Persons who have the charge of administering the affairs of houses destined for the use of orphans. Clef des Lois Rom. mot Ad- ministrateur...
One whose name appears in a firm, as a partner, and who is really such. ...
pleading, evidence. In actions of trespass, the declaration concludes by charging generally, that the defendant did other wrongs to the plaintiff to h...
The name of a weight. An ounce avoirdupois weight is the sixteenth part of a pound; an ounce troy weight is the twelfth part of a pound. Vide Weights....
torts. An ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the party entitlod to possession of any real property corporeal. 2. An ouster can pro...
In law-French, this signifies, to take out of the hand. In the old English law it signified a livery of lands out of the hands of the lord, after the ...
An allowance made by the government of the United States to a minis-ter plenipotentiary, or charge des affaires, on going from the United States to an...
Buildings adjoining to or belonging to dwelling-houses. 2. It is not easy to say what comes within and what is excluded from the meaning of out-house....
Engl. law. Bailiffs errant, employed by the sheriffs and their deputies, to ride to the furthest places of their counties or hundreds to summon such a...
Engl. law. One who is put out of the protection or aid of the law. 22 Vin. Ab. 316; 1 Phil. Ev. Index, h. t.; Bac. Ab. Outlawry; 2 Sell. Pr. 277; Doct...
Engl. law. The act of being put out of the protection of the law by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in refusing to beco...
A grave injury; a serious wrong. This is a generic word which is applied to everything, which is injurious, in great degree, to the honor or rights of...
A bill, note, bond or other contract, for the payment of money at a particular day, when not paid upon the day, is overdue. 2. The indorsement of a no...
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue, the remainder of a thing. The same as Surplus. (q. v.) 2. The overplus may be certain or uncertain....
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