civil law. Payment. 2. By this term, is understood, every species of discharge or liberation, which is called satisfaction, and with which the credit...
The state of a person who is able to pay all his debts; the opposite of insolvency. (q. v.) ...
One who has sufficient to pay his debts, and all obligations. Dig. 50, 16, 114. ...
To unbind; to untie; to release; to pay; solvere dicimus eum qui fecit quod facere promisit. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 807. ...
pleading. The name of a plea to an action on a bond, or other obligation to pay money, by which the defendant pleads that he paid the money on the day...
pleading. The name of a special plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond, by which the defendant asserts that he paid the money after the day it bec...
med. juris. Sleep walking. 2. This is sometimes an inferior species of insanity, the patient being unconscious of what he is doing. A case is mention...
pleading. His own first assault. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by whicb the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an as...
in Latin called gener. The hushand of one~s daughter. ...
That state of a man~s mind which is adequate to reason and comes to a judgment upon ordinary subjects, like other rational men. 2. The law presumes t...
When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money, (as is the case in real or mixed actions, or the personal action of...
In usual health; without any permanent disease. 1 Carr. & Marsh. 291. To create unsoundness, it is requisite that the animal should not be useful for ...
By this expression is understood the authority from which the laws derive their force. 2. The power of making all laws is in the people or - their re...
An act sous seingprive, in Louisiana and by the French law, is an act or contract evidenced by writing under the private signature of the parties to i...
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. For an account of its colonial history, see article North Carolina. 2. The co...
A chief ruler with supreme power; one possessing sovereignty. (q. v.) It is also applied to a king or other magistrate with limited powers. 2. In the...
Eng. law. The name of a gold coin of Great Britain of the value of one pound sterling. ...
One which governs itself independently of any foreign power. ...
The union and exercise of all human power possessed in a state; it is a combination of all power; it is the power to do everything in a state without ...
civil law. Those who, on account of their temperament, or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst. 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2, 1; ...
This Latin adverb signifies scatteredly, here and there, in a scattered manner, sparsedly, dispersedly. It is sometimes used in law; for example, the ...
The presiding officer of the house of representatives of the United States is so called. The presiding officer of either branch of the state legislatu...
equity pleading. One which contains an argument in the body of it; as, for instance, when a demurrer says, "in or about the year 1770," which is upwar...
That which relates to a particular species or kind, opposed to general; as special verdict and general verdict; special imparlance and general imparla...
A special agent is one whose authority is confined to a particular, or an individual instance. It is a general rule, that he who is invested with a sp...
practice. Where an action of assumpsit (q. v.) has been brought on a special contract, and the plaintiff declares upon it, setting out its particular ...
A person who becomes specially bound to answer for the appearance of another; the recoguizance or act by which such person thus becomes bound, is also...
One who has been appointed a constable for a particular occasion, as in the case of an actual tumult or a riot, or for the purpose of serving a partic...
Such as actually have been suffered, and are not implied by law. Vide Damages, Special; and 1 Chit. Pl. 385; Com. Dig. Action on the case for Defamati...
pleading. One which excepts to the sufficiency of the pleadings on the opposite side, and shows specifically the nature of the objection, and the part...
A deposit made of a particular thing with the depositary: it is distinguished from an irregular deposit. 2. When a thing has been specially deposited...
Special pleas in error are those which assign for error matters in confession and avoidance, as a release of errors, the act of limitations, and the l...
pleading. One which contains the clause, "saving to himself all advantages and exceptions, as well to the writ, as to the declaration aforesaid." 2 Ch...
One obtained only on motion and petition, with notice to the other party, and is applied for, sometimes on affidavit before answer, but more frequentl...
pleading. A plea to the action which denies some particular material allegation, which is in effect a denial of the entire right of action. It differs...
One selected in a particular way by the parties. A pannel is made out, and each party is entitled to strike from it the names of a certain number of j...
The name of a plea by which the defendant says that the deed which he has executed is not his own or binding upon him, because of some circumstance wh...
estates. When an estate is granted to a man and his heirs during the life, of cestui que vie, and the grantee die without alienation, and while the li...
Special or limited partnerships are of two kinds; 1. Those at common law. 2. Limited partnerships, or those in commendam. 2. Special partnerships at ...
One which advances new matter. It differs from the general in this, that the latter denies some material allegation, but never advances new matter. Go...
Engl. practice. A special pleader is a lawyer whose professional occupation is to give verbal or written opinions upon statements submitted to him, ei...
The allegartion of special or new matter, as distinguished from a direct denial of matter previously alleged on the opposite side. Gould on Pl. c. 1, ...
This term is used as synonymous with qualified or limited property. It is that property which is not perfect in the hands of the possessor, but his ri...
One actually made, at a particular time and place; this term is used in contradistinction to a general request, which need not state. the time when, n...
A rule or order of court made in a particular case, for a particular purpose; it is distinguished from a general rule, which applies to a class of cas...
pleading. A technical special traverse begins in most cases, with the words absque hoc, (without this,) which words in pleading form a technical form ...
A special trust, is one where a trustee is interposed for the execution of some purpose particularly pointed out, and is not, as in the case of a simp...
practice. A special verdict is one by which the facts of the case are put on the record, and the law is submitted to the judges. Vide Verdict; Bac. Ab...
contracts. A writing sealed aud delivered, containing some agreement. 2 Serg. & Rawle, 503; 1 Binn. Rep. 261; Willes, 189; 1 P. Wms. 130. In a more co...
Metallic money issued by public authority. 2. This term is used in contradistinction to paper money, which in some countries is emitted by the govern...
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