punishments. An engine with which to torture a supposed criminal, in order to extort a confession of his supposed crime, and the names of his supposed...
French law. This word designates the repairs made to a ship, and a fresh supply of furniture and victuals, munitions and other provisions required for...
A road made with iron rails or other suitable materials. 2. Railways are to be constructed and used as directed by the legislative acts creating them....
The water which naturally falls from the clouds. 2. No one has a right to build his house so as to cause the rain water to fall over his neighbor s la...
This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United States to...
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank. 2. It is a maxim, that offi...
In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid. ...
contracts, war. An agreement made between the commander of a capturing vessel with the commander of a vanquished vessel, at sea, by which the former p...
crim. law. The carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and unlawfully against her will. In order to ascertain precisely the nature of this offen...
division of a country. In the English law, this is a district similar to that of a hundred; but oftentimes containing in it more hundreds than one. ...
crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q. v.) It is the felonious taking of another man s personal property, openly and by violenc...
A French term used in Louisiana, which is somewhat similar in its meaning to our homely term hotch-pot. It is the reunion to the mass of the successio...
An opprobrious term, applied to persons of bad character. The law does not presume that a damage has arisen because the defendant has been called a ra...
The scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of it from being read. The word writing here is intended to include printing. Vide Ad...
A public valuation or assessment of every man s estate; or the ascertaining how much tax every one shall pay. Vide Pow. Mortg. Index, h. t.; Harr. Dig...
Among merchants, by rate of exchange is understood the price at which a bill drawn in one country upon another, may be sold in the former. ...
contracts. An agreement to adopt an act performed by another for us. 2. Ratifications are either empress or implied. The former are made in express an...
The constitution of the United States, art. 2, s. 2, declares that the president shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, t...
contracts. Confirmation; approbation of a contract; ratification. Vin. Ab. h. t.; Assent. (q. v.) ...
The name of a writ which lies properly when two men have lands in several towns or hamlets, so that the one is seised of the land in one town or hamle...
pleadings. In indictments for rape, this technical word must be introduced, for no other word, nor any circumlocution, will answer the purpose. The de...
crim. law. This word has several meanings. 1. It is an unlawful taking of a woman, or an heir in ward. 2. It is sometimes used synonymously with rape....
Eng. law. The marriage of an infant ward, without the consent of the guardian, is called a ravishment of ward, and punishable by statute. Westminster ...
The act of making known the contents of a writing or of a printed document. 2. In order to enable a party to a contract or a devisor to know what a pa...
A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances af...
Those which concern the realty only, being such by which the demandant claims title to have any lands or tenements, rents, or other hereditaments, in ...
com. law. By this term are understood contracts in respect to real property. 3 Rawle, 225. 2. In the civil law real contracts are those which require ...
That which consists of land, and of all rights and profits arising from and annexed to land, of a permanent, immovable nature. In order to make one s ...
Those laws which govern property, whether real or personal, or things; the term is used in persona opposition to personality of laws. (q. v.) Story, C...
A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Campb. 289; Rose, R. 387. ...
An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property. ...
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine ...
Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational. 2. An award must be reasonable, for if it be of things nugatory in themselves, and offering no ad...
This term signifies such an act as the law requires. When an act is unnecessary, a party will not be required to perform it as a reasonable act. 9 Pri...
The English law, which in this respect, has been adopted by us, frequently requires things to be done within a reasonable time; but what a reasonable ...
When an insurer is desirous of lessening his liability, he may procure some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this ...
mer. law. Discount; the abatement of inferest in consequence of prompt payment. Merch. Dict. h. t. ...
A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfully takes up arms against the constituted authorities of the nation, to deprive them of the supreme power...
crim. law. The taking up arms traitorously against the government and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the forcible o...
A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear. Vide Commission of Rebellion. ...
To repel or bar. The action of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor, is called to rebut or repel. 2 Tho. Co. Litt. 247, 303. ...
pleadings. The name of the defendant s answer to the plaintiff s surrejoinder. It is governed by the same rules as the rejoinder. (q. v.) 6 Com. Dig. ...
That which is given by a party in the cause to explain, repel, counteract or disprove facts given in evidence on the other side. The term rebutting ev...
war. By this term is understood the recovery from the enemy, by a friendly force, of a prize by him captured. It differs from rescue. (q. v.) 2. It se...
remedies. The act of a person who has been deprived of the cus-tody of another to which he is legally entitled, by which he regains the peaceable cust...
contracts. A receipt is an acknowledgment in writing that the party giving the same has received from the person therein named, the money or other thi...
In Massachusetts this name is given to the person who, on a trustee process being issued and goods attached, becomes surety to the sheriff to have the...
civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to settle the differences between the parties. Dig. 4, 8 ...
chancery practice. A person appointed by a court possessing chan- cery jurisdiction to receive the rents and profits of land, or the profits or produc...
crim. law. By statutory provision the receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen may be punished as the principal in perhaps all the Un...
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