crim. law. To encourage or set another on to commit a crime. This word is always taken in a bad sense. To abet another to commit a murder, is to comma...
practice. To make shorter in words, so as to retain the sense or substance. In law it signifies particularly the making of a declaration or count shor...
international law. The act by which a diplomatic agent is acknowledged by the government near which he is sent. This at once makes his public characte...
Literally to grow to, as the interest accrues on the principal. Accruing costs are those which become due and are created after judgment of an executi...
descents, contracts. To make property one"s own. 2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q. v.) and by purchase, (q. v.) Acquisitio...
The stat. 9 G. IV. c. 31, S. 11, enacts "that if any person unlawfully and maliciously shall administer, or attempt to administer to any person, or sh...
trusts. To do some act in relation to an estate, such as none but the owner, or some one authorized by him or by the law, in caseof his decease, could...
English law. Signifies either "to affere an amercement," i. e. to mitigate the rigor of a fine, or "to affere an account," that is, to confirm it on o...
practice. 1. To ratify or confirm a former law or judgment, as when the supreme court affirms the judgment of the court of common pleas. 2. To make an...
To make free....
contracts. See Alienate....
practice. To approve, to grant, as to allow a writ of error, is to approve of it, to grant it. Vide Allocatur. To allow an amount is to admit or appro...
To change. Alterations are made either in the contract itself, or in the instrument which is evidence of it. The contract may at any time be altered w...
approbare. To increase the profits upon a thing, as to approve land by increasing the rent. 2 Inst. 784....
To come to a particular place, to reach a particular or certain place as, the ship United States arrived in New York. See 1 Marsh. Dec. 411....
1. To rate or to fix the proportion which every person has to pay of any particular tax. 2. To assess damages is to ascertain what damages are due to...
contracts, practice. 1. To make a right over to another, as to assign an estate, an annuity, a bond, &c., over to another. 5 John. Rep: 391. 2. To app...
crim. law, practice. To an attachment for contempt for the non-take or apprehend by virtue of the order of a writ or precept, commonly called an attac...
In the description of a paper in a declaration, to say it bears date such a day, is to aver that such date is upon it, and if, on being produced, it i...
To give personal property by will to another....
contracts. These words are applied to the contract entered into, between a master and an apprentice the latter is said to be bound.2. In order to make...
crim. law. The act by which a magistrate or a court hold to bail a party, accused of a crime or misdemeanor.2. A person accused may be bound over to a...
An ancient mode of punishment, which was to inflict a mark on an offender with a hot iron. This barbarous punishment has been generally disused....
To purchase. Vide Sale....
punishment. To break; to deprive a military man of his office. Example: every officer who shall be convicted, before a general court martial, of leavi...
civil law. To assign; to transfer; as, France ceded Louisiana to the United States....
To send a person to prison by virtue of a warrant or other lawful writ, for the commission of a crime, offence or misdemeanor, or for a contempt, or n...
To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his pu...
To imagine; to contrive. 2. In England, to compass the death of the king is high treason. Bract. 1. 3, c. 2 Britt. c. 8; Mirror, c. 1, s. 4....
In Louisiana, to concur, signifies, to claim a part, of the estate of an insolvent along with other claimants; 6 N. S. 460; as " the wife concurs with...
contr. To empower, to authorize. In the common form of letters of attorney, these words occur, I nominate, constitute and appoint."...
criminal law. To make something false, in the semblance of that which is true; it always implies a fraudulent intent. Vide Vin. Ab. h. t. Forgery....
To ask; to demand. 2. This word is frequently used in pleading; as,-to crave oyer of a bond on which the suit is brought; and in the settlement of acc...
To accuse of a crime; to admit having committed a crime or misdemeanor. 2. It is a rule, that a witness cannot be compelled to answer any question whi...
crim. law. To wound with an instrument having a sharp edge. 1 Russ. on Cr. 577. Vide To Stab; Wound....
To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. 356....
To make known or publish. By tho constitution of the United States, congress have power to declare war. In this sense the word, declare, signifies, no...
To forbid. This word is used in some old English statutes in the sense it has in French, namely, to forbid. 5 Pic. 2, c. Lord Coke uses the word in th...
To, sink or lower a person in the estimation of the public. 2. As a mans character is of great importance to him, and it is his interest to retain the...
To examine, to consult, in order to form an opinion. Thus, a jury deliberate as to their verdict....
practice. To make a deposition, to give testimony as a witness....
rights. The act of depriving an individual of a public employment or office, against his will. Wolff, 1063. The term is usually applied to the depriv...
To pronounce word for word what is destined to be at the same time written by another. Merlin Rep. mot Suggestion, p. 5 00, Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3...
To deny the authority by which an agent pretends to have acted as when he has exceeded the bounds of his authority. 2. It is the duty of the principal...
practice, evidence. To deprive one of credit or confidence. 2. In general, a party may discredit a witness called by the opposite party, who testifies...
contr. This term is applied to the nonfulfilment of commercial engagements. To dishonor a bill of exchange, or a promissory note, is to refuse or negl...
practice. A term used in courts of chancery for removing a cause out of court without any further hearing....
Eng. law. To deprive a person of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis. (q. v.) 2. When a person has been admitted to sue in forma pauperis, and, b...
Scotch law. This is a technical word, which implies, it is said, a transfer of feudal property by a particular deed, and is not equivalent to the term...
crim. law. To induce a person not to do an act. 2. To dissuade a witness from giving evidence against a person indicted, is an indictable offence at c...
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