practice. The items of which the accounts of one of the parties is composed, and which are frequently furnished to the opposite party in a bill of par...
contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement. 2. All persons generally can be p...
Those persons who institute actions for the recovery of their rights, and those persons against whom they are instituted, are the parties to the actio...
The person who seeks a remedy in chancery by suit, commonly called a plaintiff, and the person against whom the remedy is sought, usually denominated ...
conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portions, and all...
?states. The division which is made between several persons, of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of goods and chattels which belong to them as c...
contracts. Persons who have united together and formed a partnership. 2. Every person sui juris is competent to contract the relation of a partner. An...
contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together their money, goods, labor and skill, or either or all of them, for the purpo...
Persons who hold real or personal property by the same title, either as tenants in common, joint tenants, or coparceners. They are sometimes called gu...
The act of giving birth to a child. 2. Sometimes questions arise how far means may be employed to promote par turition, which cause, or are likely to ...
Tho act of giving birth to a child 2. Sometimes questions arise bow far means may be employed to promote par-turition, which cause, or are likely to c...
The child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth. Before birth the partus is considered as a portion of the mother. Dig. 25, 4, 1, 1. ...
practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons ...
An ancient word used to signify a jury de medietas linguae, (q. v.) or one composed one-half of natives, and the other of foreigners. Lexic. Techn. h....
A wall erected on the line between two adjoining estates, belonging to different persons, for the use of both estates. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1615. 2. Party...
In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave ...
practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let the judgment pass for the plaintiff. ...
com. law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made. 2. It is kept by the buy...
A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person o...
contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with or without luggage on the water. 2. The difference between freight and passage money ...
com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. (q. v.) By active debts are understood those which may be ...
maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; i...
cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another. 2. By act of Feb. 22, 1847, M...
pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by a grant of pastures the land itself passes. 1 Thorn. Co, Litt. 202. ...
constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2. This word is usually applied to ambiguities which are said to be latent, or patent. 3. A patent ambigu...
contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufac...
The following points in relation to the patent laws of France will be found useful to those who have invented valuable machinery, and who are desirous...
The patent laws of Great Britain and Ireland will be briefly considered by taking a view of the persons to whom patents will be granted; the different...
This subject will be considered by taking a view of the persons who may obtain patents; the nature of the patent; and the duration of the right. 2. - ...
The Roman patents will be considered by taking a view of the persons to whom they may be granted; the different kinds of patents; the cost of a patent...
An office bearing this name was established by law, and by the act Of congress of July 4, 1836, which repeals all acts theretofore passed in relation ...
He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters-patent for a new invention. 2. His rights are, 1. To...
Father. A term used in making genealogical tables. ...
civil law. One who was sui juris and consequently was not either under parental power, nor under that of a master; a child in his cradle, therefore, c...
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession, the property coming from the father of the deceased, descends to his patern...
That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line. ...
Patria potestas, The, authority lawfully exercised by parents, over their children. It will be proper to consider, 1. Who are entitled to exercise thi...
That which descends or comes from the father and other ascendants, or collaterals of the paternal stock. Domat. Liv. Prel. tit, 3, s. 2. ...
The state or condition of a father. 2. The hushand is prima facie presumed to be the father of his wife s chhildren, born during coverture, or within ...
med. jur. The science or doctrine of diseases. In cases of homicides, abortions, and the like, it is of great consequence to the legal practitioner to...
The country; the men of the neighborhood competent to serve on a jury; a jury. This word is nearly synonymous with pais. (.q. v.) ...
Civil law. Paternal power; (q. v.) the authority which is lawfully exercised by the father over his children. ...
One guilty of killing his father. ...
A thing, which comes from the father, and by extension, from the mother or other ancestor. ...
civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited. 2. Things capable of being possessed by a single person exclusively of all others, are, in the R...
Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification , includes only such estate, as has descended in th...
A godfather. ...
eccles. law. He who has the disposition and gift of an ecclesiastical benefice. In the Roman law it signified the former master of a freedman. Dig. 2,...
The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people. 2. In ...
Roman civil law. This word is a modification of the, Latin word pater, father; a denomination applied by Romulus to the first, senators of Rome, and w...
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