The substance which nature prepares for the reproduction of plants or animals. 2. Seeds which have been sown in the earth immediately become a part o...
Among the feudists, this name signified lord of the fee. F. N. B. 23. The most extended signification of this word includes not only a lord or peer of...
Eng. law. The rights of a lord as such, in lands. Swinb. 174. ...
estates. The possession of an estate of freebold. 8 N. H. Rep. 57; 3 Hamm. 220; 8 Litt. 134; 4 Mass. 408. Seisin was used in contradistinction to that...
practice. The act of taking possession of the property of a person condemned by the judgment of a competent tribunal, to pay a certain sum of money, b...
Judges among the Romans who were selected very much like our juries. They were returned by the praetor, drawn by lot, subject to be challenged and swo...
crim. law. The right to protect one~s person and property from injury. 2. It will be proper to consider, 1. The extent of the right of self-defence. ...
The name of certain officers in several of the United States, who are invested by the statutes of the several states with various powers. ...
contracts. One who disposes of a thing in consideration of money; a vendor. 2. This term is more usually applied in the sale of chattels, that of ve...
A French word which signifies, it seems. It is commonly used before the statement of a point of law which has not been directly settled; but about whi...
civ. law. Presumptions of fact are so called. This degree of proof is thus deaned: "Non est ignorandum, probationem semiplenam eam esse, per quam rei ...
A term used by Italian lawyers, which literally signifies half-shipwreck, and by which they understand the jetsam, or casting merchan-dise into the se...
The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has always been ready to perform what is demanded of him. 3 Bl. Com. 303. The same as Tout t...
This is said to be an ancient word which signified justice. Co. Litt. 61 a. ...
government. The less numerous branch of the legislature. 2. The constitution of the United States, article 1, s. 3, cl. 1, directs that "the senate o...
government. One who is a member of a senate. 2. No person shall be a senator [of the national senate] who shall not have attained the age of thirty y...
civ. law. A decree or decision of the Roman senate, which had the force of law. 2. When the Roman people had so increased that there was no place whe...
A steward. Co. Litt. 61 a. ...
The state of being old. 2. Sometimes in this state it is exceedingly difficult to know whether the individual is or is not so deprived of the powers ...
The elder. This addition is sometimes made to a man~s name, when two persons bear the same, in order to distinguish them. In practice when nothing is ...
A judgment, or judicial declaration made by a judge in a cause. The term judgment is more usually applied to civil, and sentence to criminal proceedin...
Separately. 2. This word is sometimes used in indictments to show that the defendants are charged separately with offences, which, without the additi...
That which belongs to one only of several persons; as, the separate estate of a partner, which does not belong to the partnership. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 15...
contracts. An allowance made by a hushand to his wife for her separate support and maintenance. 2. When this allowance is regularly paid, and notice ...
practice. The trial of one person by himself, when he is jointly indicted with others for an alleged offence. 2. On a joint indictment against two or...
contracts. When the hushand and wife agree to live apart they are said to have made a separation. 2. Contracts of this kind are generally made by the...
The place where a corpse is buried. The violation of sepulchres is a misdemeanor at common law. Vide Dead bodies. ...
chancery practice. The process of sequestration is a writ of commission, sometimes directed to the sheriff, but most usually, to four or more commissi...
contracts. A species of deposit, which two or more persons, engaged in litigation about anything, make of the thing in contest to an indifferent perso...
Louisiana practice. The Code of Practice in civil cases in Louisiana, defines and makes the following provisions on the subject of sequestration. Art....
One to whom a sequestration is made. 2. A depositary of this kind cannot exonerate himself from the care of the thing sequestered in his hands, unles...
During the feudal times certain persons who were bound to perform very onerous duties towards others, were so called. Poth. Des Personnes, p. 1, t. 1,...
Engl. law. An officer in the courts of the highest grade among the practitioners of the law. ...
in the army. An inferior officer of a company of foot, or troop of dragoons appointed to see discipline observed, to teach the soldiers the exercise o...
An officer appointed by a legislative body, whose duties are to enforce the orders given by such bodies, generally under the warrant of its presiding ...
In a series, severally; as, the judges delivered their opinions seriatim. ...
Eng. law. A species of service which cannot be due or performed from a tenant to any lord but the king; and is either grand or petit serjeanty. ...
(negro or mulatto,) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, 1 Smith~...
In Louisiana they are divided into free servants and slaves. See Slaves; Slavery. 2. Free servants are, in general, all free persons who let, hire, o...
menial. Domestics those who receive wages, and who are lodged and fed in the house of another, and who are employed in his services. Such servants are...
This name was given by the Romans to their slaves; they were so called from servare, to preserve, from the ancient practice of the generals of the arm...
contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2. In cases of seduction, the gist of the action is not injury which the seducer has inflicted on the...
feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 2. The services, in respect of their quality, were either fr...
practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process; Kirby, 48; 2 Aik. R. 338; 11 ...
civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement. See Dominant; Servitude. ...
civil law. A term which indicates the subjection of one person to another person, or of a person to a thing, or of a thing to a person, or of a thing ...
civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence of the nature of the soil. 2. By law the inferior heritages, are submitted in relation to the ...
personal. Those by which the property of a subject, in Scotland, is burdened in favor, not of a tenement, but of a person. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t....
civil law. A service or servitude; a burden imposed by law, or the agreement of parties upon certain persons, for the benefit of others; or upon one e...
Servitude; slavery; a state of bondage. "Servitus autem, est constitutio," say the Institutes of Justinian, 1, 3, 2, "qua quis dominio alieno contra n...
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