A barbarous punishment formerly inflicted on criminals by tearing them to pieces by means of four horses, one attached to each limb....
practice. To overthrow or annul. 2. When proceedings are clearly irregular and void the courts will quash them, both in civil and criminal cases: for ...
To contradict; to do away as, every homicide is presumed to be murder, unless the contrary appears from evidence which proves the death; and this pres...
international law. To deprive a minister of his functions; to supersede him. ...
To reverse a judgment on a matter, of fact; the judgment is then said to be recalled or revoked, and when it is reversed for an error of law, it is sa...
Voluntarily to take from another what is offered. 2. A landlord, for example, could not be said to receive the key from his tenant, when the latter le...
the act of making a record. 2. Sometimes questions arise as to when the act of recording is complete, as in the following case. A deed of real estate ...
This word is derived from the French recouper, to cut again. In law it signifies the right and the act of making a set-off, defalcation, or discount, ...
To reexamine a subject by having a reference to something connected with it. 2. A witness has a right to examine a memorandum or paper which he made i...
To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. 2. On a deficiency of assets, exe...
To send back or recommit. When a prisoner is brought before a judge on a habeas corpus, for the purpose of obtaining his liberty, the judge hears the ...
To annul a fine or forfeiture. 2. This is generally done by the courts where they have a discretion by law: as, for example, when a juror is fined for...
To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow the right to administer to he...
To exhibit; to expose before the eyes: to represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3. ...
To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He who repudiates a right cannot b...
To return what has been unjustly taken; to place the owner of a thing in the state in which he formerly was. By restitution is understood not only the...
practice. To engage the services of an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, at which time it is usual to give him a fee, called the re-taining fe...
To withdraw a proposition or offer before it has been accepted. 2. This the party making it has a right to do is long as it has not been accepted; for...
practice. The decision of a superior court by which the judgment, sentence or decree of the inferior court is annulled. 2. After a judgment, sentence ...
This has several meanings: 1. To determine or decide; as, the court rule the point in favor of the plaintiff. 2. To order by rule; as rule to plead. ...
To protect, insure, or save a right. 2. The constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, gives power to congress "to promote the progress of scie...
civil and eccles. law. To renounce. Example, when a widow comes into court and disclaims having anything to do, or to intermeddle with her deceased hu...
To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award. 2. When proceedings are irregular they may be set aside on, motion of the party whom they injurious...
To adjust or ascertain to pay. 2. Two contracting parties are said to settle an account when they ascertain what is justly due by one to the other; w...
practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate de-fences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence;...
To write one~s name to an instrument of writing in order to give the effect intended; the name thus written is called a signature. 2. The signature i...
This term is used in the English law, to signify the permission given by a court to the prosecutor and defendant in some cases of misdemeanor, to agre...
To make a wound with a pointed instrument; a stab differs from a cut, (q. v.) or a wound. (q. v.) Russ. & Ry. 356; Russ. on Cr. 597; Bac. Ab. Maihem, ...
To abide by a thing; to submit to a decision; to comply with an agreement; to have validity, as the judgment must stand. ...
To make known specifically; to explain particularly; as, to state an account, or to show the different items of an account; to state the cause of acti...
To make or declare insane. It is a general rule in the English law, that a man shall not be permitted to stultify himself; that is, he shall not be al...
To divide a part of a thing which has already been divided. For example, when a person dies leaving children, and grandchildren, the children of one o...
To prosecute or commence legal proceedings for the purpose of recovering a right. ...
practice. The act by which a defendant is notified by a compepetent officer, that an action has been instituted against him, and that he is required t...
To take an oath, judicially administered. Vide Affirmation; Oath. 2. To swear also signifies to use such profane language as is forbidden by law. Thi...
An officer among the Romans who reduced to writing and into proper form, agreements, contracts, wills, and other instruments, and witnessed their exec...
In Louisiana this is a list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. 4 N. S. 535. ...
A synopsis in which many particulars are brought together in a general view; as genealogical tables, which are composed of the names of persons ...
Engl. law. Literally a plank in a wreck. This figure has been used to denote the condition of a third mortgagee, who obtained his mortgage without any...
That which, although not expressed, is understood from the nature of the thing, or from the provision of the law; implied. ...
A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people, without any legislative enactment. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 120. ...
Scotch law. A contract of location by which the use of land, or any other immovable subject, is, set to the lessee or tacksman for a certain yearly re...
Engl. law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise disch...
An estate tail is an estate of inheritance, to a man or a woman and his or her heirs of his or her body, or heirs of his body of a particular descript...
This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take ...
crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, ...
comm. law. A denomination of money in China. In the computation of the ad valorem duty on goods, &c. it is computed at one dollar and forty-eight cent...
Eng. law. The declaration or count was anciently so called in law pleadings. 3 Bl. Com. 293. ...
Eng. law. The name of a book kept in the king~s bench office, of such jurymen as were of the tales. See Tales de circumstantibus. ...
practice. Such persons as are standing round. When ever the panel of the jury is exhausted the court order that the jurors wanted shall be selected fr...
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