These Latin words signify the power of the county. 2. The sheriff has authority by the common law, while acting under the authority of the writ of the...
This word is applied to the right and enjoyment of a termor or a person having a term, who is said to be possessed, and not seized. Bac. Tr. 335; Poph...
The brother s possession. This is a technical phrase which is applied in the English law relating to descents. By the common law, the ancestor from wh...
intern. law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest. 2. In this sense Possession differs from a dependenc...
property. The detention or enjoyment of a thing which a man holds or exercises by himself or by another who keeps or exercises it in his name. By the ...
He who holds, detains or enjoys a thing, either by himself or his agent, which he claims as his own. 2. In general the possessor of personal chattels ...
old Eng. law. A reall action in which the plaintiff called the demandant, sought to recover the possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments. On ...
An uncertain thing which may happen; Lilly s Reg. h. t.; or it is a contingent interest in real or personal estate. 1 Mad. Ch. 549. 2. Possibilities a...
After. When two or more alienations or descents have taken place between an original intruder ant or defendant in a writ of entry, the writ is said to...
To date an instrument a time after that on which it is made. Vide Date. ...
After the day; as a plea of payment post diem, after the, day when the money became due. Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W 29. ...
Engl. law. The name of a writ which, lies for him who, having recovered lands and tenements by force of a novel disseisin, is again disseised by a for...
maritime law. When a merchant makes an entry on the importation of, goods, and at the time he is not able to calculate exactly the duties which he is ...
after the fact. Vide Ex post facto. ...
After the commencement of the suit. 2. Declarations or acts of the parties made post litem motam, are presumed to be made with reference to the suit t...
A stamp or, mark put on letters in the post office. 2. Post marks are evidence of a letter having passed through the post office. 2 Camp. 620; 2 B. & ...
After death; as, an examination post mortem, is an examination made of a dead body to ascertain the cause of death; an inquisition post mortem, is one...
A species of bank notes payable at a distant period, and not on demand. 2 Watts & Serg. 468. A kind of bank notes intended to be transmitted at a dist...
Literally after born; it is used by the old law writers to designate the second son. See Puisne; Post-nati. ...
Something which takes place after marriage; as a post nuptial settlement, which is a conveyance made generally by the hushand for the benefit of the w...
contract. An agreement, by which the obligor borrows a certain sum of money and promises to pay a larger sum, exceeding the lawful rate of interest, u...
A place where letters are received to be sent to the persons to whom they, are addressed. 2. The post office establishment of the United States, is of...
The money charged by law for carrying letters, packets and documents by mail. By act of congress of March 3, 1851, Minot s Statute at Large, U. S. 587...
The act of congress, approved March 3, 1847, section 11, and the act of congress of March 3, 1841, sections 3, 4, provide that, to facilitate the tran...
practice. Afterwards. The endorsement on the nisi prius record purporting to be the return of the judge before whom a cause is tried, of, what has bee...
This term was used by the Romans to denote the descendant in a direct line beyond the sixth degree. It is still used in making genealogical tables. ...
rights. Being or, coming after. It is a word of comparison, the correlative of which is priority; as, when a man holds lands from two landlords, he ho...
descents. All the descendants of a person in a direct line. ...
after the death of its father; or, when the Caesarian operation is performed, after that of the mother. 2. Posthumous children are entitled to take by...
postillae. Marginal notes made in a book or writing for reference to other parts of the same, or some other book or writing. ...
That right in virtue of which persons and things taken by the enemy are restored to their former state, when coming again under the power of the natio...
Eng. law. A barrister in the court of exchequer, who has precedence in: motions. ...
An officer of the United States appointed by the postmaster general to hold his office. during the, plaasure of the former. Before entering on the dut...
The chief officer of the post office department of the United States. Various duties are imposed upon this officer by the acts of congress of March 3,...
Born after. This term is applied to persons who came to reside in tho United States after the declaration of independence. They are generally consider...
Rom. civ. law. The name given to the first act in a criminal proceeding. A person who wished to accuse another of a crime, appeared before the praetor...
French law. A sum of money frequently paid, at the moment of entering into a contract, be=yond the price agreed upon. 2. It differs from arrha, (q. v....
One who has a great power over, an extended country; a sovereign. 2. By the naturalization laws, an alien is required, before he can be naturalized, t...
civil law. A Latin word which signifies power; authority; domination; empire. It has several meaning. 1. It signifies imperium, or the jurisdiction of...
weight. There are two kinds of weights, namely, the troy, and the avoirdupois. The pound avoirdupois is greater than the troy pound, in the proportion...
Eng. law. A place enclosed to keep strayed animals in. 5 Pick. 514; 4 Pick. 258; 9 Pick. 14. ...
money. The sum of twenty shillings. Previous to the establishment of the federal currency,, the different states made use of the pound in computing mo...
practice. The amount allowed to the sheriff, or other officer, for commissions on, the money made by virtue of an execution. This allowance varies in ...
French law. The conversations and negotiations which have taken place between the parties in order to make an agreement. These form no part of the agr...
A follower, a pursuer. In the ancient English law, it signified an officer who attended upon the king in his wars, at the council table, exchequer, in...
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or facu...
Vide Letter of attorney, and 1 Mood. Or. Cas. 57, 58. ...
Engl. law. The name usually given to an act which was passed by a parliament holden in Ireland in the tenth of Henry the Seventh; it enacts that all s...
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principle...
Lat. Booty; property seized in war. Vide Booty; Prize. ...
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