A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea. 2. ...
The name of a coin. The rix dollar of Bremen, is deemed as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the value of seventy-eight and three quarte...
civil law. A dispute; a quarrel. Dig. 48, 8, 17. ...
A common scold. (q. v.) ...
A passage through the country for the use of the people. 3 Yeates, 421. 2. Roads are public or private. Public roads are laid out by public author-ity...
mar. law. A road is defined by Lord Hale to be an open passage of the sea, which, from the situation of the adjacent land, and its own depth and widen...
A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is freque...
One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, i...
crimes. The felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. 4 Bl. Com. 243 ...
A measure sixteen feet and a half long; a perch. ...
A kind of commission from a judge authorizing and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction to examine a witness. Vide Letters Rogatory. ...
A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which is its...
The list of a ship s crew; the muster roll. ...
A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob, L. D. h. t. 2. In carly times, before paper came in...
The fourth part of an acre. ...
That part of a tree or plant under ground from which it draws most of its nourishment from the earth. 2. When the roots of a tree planted in one man s...
A list of persons who are in their turn to perform certain duties, required of them by law. Tytler , on Courts Mart. 93. ...
The name of a coin. The rouble of Russia, as money of account, is deemed and taken at the custom-house, to be of the value of seventy-five cents. Act ...
crim. law. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with an intention to do a thing, which, if executed, would have made them rioters,...
pleadings. A technical word properly used in indictments for a rout as descriptive of the offence. 2 Salk. 593. ...
In diploniatic language by this term is understood the rights enjoyed by every empire or kingdom in Europe, by the pope, the grand duchies of Germany,...
civil law. The title or inscription of any law or statute, because the copyists formerly drew and painted the title of laws and statutes rubro colore,...
crim. law. An impolite action; contrary to the usual rules observed in society, committed by one person against another. 2. This is a relative term wh...
This is a metaphorical expression borrowed from mechanics. The rule, in its proper and natural sense, is an instrument by means of which may be drawn ...
Rules of law are general maxims, formed by the courts, who having observed what is common to many particular cases, announce this conformity by a maxi...
An order made by a court having competent jurisdiction. 2. Rules of court are either general or special; the former are the laws by which the practice...
An order made by the court, in a particular case, upon motion of one of the parties calling upon the other to appear at a particular time before the c...
l756, comm. law, war. A rule relating to neutrals was the first rule practically, established in 1756, and universally promulgated, that "neutrals are...
English practice. A term rule is in the nature of a day rule, by which a prisoner is enabled by the terms of one rule, instead of a daily rule, to qui...
English law. The rules of the King s Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper securit...
Certain orders made by the courts for the purpose of regulating the practice of members of the bar and others. 2. Every court of record has an inheren...
A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth. 2. In general, rumor cannot be received in evidence, but when the ...
A nag. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 471. ...
In settling the lay days, (q. v.) or the days of demiurrage, (q. v.) the contract sometimes specifies "running days;" by this exprression is, in gener...
A metaphorical expression, by which is meant that the time mentioned in the statute of limitations is considered as passing. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 861. ...
A technical expression applied to covenants real, which affect the land; and if a lessee covenants that he and his assigns will repair the house demis...
comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation of ad valorem duties, it is valued at fifty-five and one half cents. Act of March 2, ...
That which relates to the country, as rural servitudes. See Urban. ...
Literally a trick in war; a stratagem. It is said to be lawful among belligerents, provided it does not involve treachery and falsehood. Grot. Droit d...
civ. law. The name given to those things which are extracted or taken from land, as sand, chalk, coal, and such other things. Poth. Pand. liv. 50, h. ...
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