In Latin noverca, is the wife of one~s father, who is not the mother of the person spoken of. ...
In Latin privignus, is the son of one~s wife, or of one~s hushand. ...
A French measure of solidity used in measuring wood. It is a cubic metre. Vide Measure. ...
Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impoten...
Current money of Great Britain, but anciently a small coin, worth about one penny; and so called, as some suppose, because it was stamped with the fig...
practice. An order made, upon proper cause shown, that the process remain stationary. As where a defendant having become insolvent would, by moving ju...
A person employed in loading and unloading vessels. Dunl. Adm. Pr. 98. Vide Arrameurs; Sac ...
Seneschallus totius Angliae. An officer among the English who was invested with various powers, and, among others, it was his duty to preside on the t...
Eng. law., Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers. 2. Th...
civ. law. The rain water that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered drops. When it is gathered into a spout it is called flumen. 2. Wi...
Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man~s cattle, which he may keep upon the common. 2. To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit. ...
contracts. The sum agreed by the parties to be paid, on a breach of a contract, by the party violating his engagement to the other. 2. It is difficul...
contracts. In the Roman law, the contract of stipulation was made in the following manner, namely; the person to whom the promise was to be made, prop...
descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the kindred or...
descents. This is a metaphorical expression which designates, in the genealogy of a family, the person from whom others are descended: those persons w...
crim. law. A machine commonly made of wood, with boles in it, in which to confine persons accused of or guilty of a crime. 2. It was used either to c...
contracts. This is the name of that act of a vendor of goods, upon a credit, who, on learning that the buyer has failed, resumes the possession of the...
the victuals and provisions collected together for the subsistence of a ship~s company, of a camp, and the like. ...
Scotch law. Formerly this word included in its signification every species of theft, accompanied with violence to the person; but of late years it has...
mar. law. The proper arrangement in a ship, of the different articles of which a cargo consists, so that they may not injure each other by friction, o...
maritime law. The running of a ship or other vessel on shore; it is either accidental or voluntary. 2. It is accidental where the ship is driven on, ...
persons, contracts. This word has several significations. 1. A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly...
A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enenly. 2. Such stratagems, though contrary to moral...
A military government; government by military chiefs of an army. ...
A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1...
A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is equivalent to highway. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 108. 2. A permission to the public for the...
When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the co...
The most strict right or law. In general, when a person receives an advantage, as the grant of a license, he is bound to conform strictly to the exerc...
This phrase is used to denote mere law, in contradistinction to equity. ...
pleadings. In an indictment for murder, when the death arises from any woundng, beating or bruising, it is said, that the word "struck" is essential. ...
A special jury selected by striking from the pannel of jurors, a certain number by each party, so as to leave a number required by law to try the caus...
A case is said to be struck off, where the court has no jurisdiction, aud can give no judgment, and order that the case be taken off the record, which...
A harlot, or courtezan: this word was formerly used as an addition. Jacob~s Law Dict. h. t. ...
med. jur. That state of the mind which cannot perceive and embrace the data presented to it by the senses; and therefore the stupid person can, in gen...
civ. law. The criminal sexual intercourse which took place between a man and a single woman, maid or widow, who before lived honestly. Inst. 4, 18, 4;...
A person appointed by an agent to perform some duty, or the whole of the business relating to his agency. 2. Sub-agents may be considered in two poin...
A kind of officer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior. ...
estates, English law. The act of an inferior lord by which he carved out a part of an estate which he held of a superior, and granted it to an inferio...
contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. ...
persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied ...
The cause, the object, the thing in dispute. 2. It is a fatal objection to the jurisdiction of the court when it has not cognizance of the subject-ma...
The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others. 2. Subjection is either private or p...
A lease by a tenant to another tenant of a part of the premises held by him; an underlease. ...
A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents; a servant to his master. A victor may enforce, the submissi...
contracts. An agreement by which persons who have a law-suit or difference with one another, name arbitrators to decide the matter, and bind themselve...
Under a qualification; a legacy may be given sub modo, that is, subject to a condition or qualification. ...
civ. law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law. Vide Rescripts. ...
crim. law. The procuring another to commit legal perjury, who in consequence of the persuasion takes the oath to which be has been incited. Hawk. B. 1...
practice, evidence. A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony, commanding him to lay aside all pretences and excuses, and appear befor...
chancery practice. A mandatory writ or process, directed to and requiring one or more persons to appear at a time to come, and answer the matters char...
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