Eng. law. A barrister who has a pre-audience in the Exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called. ...
punishment. A species of cart; according to Lord Coke, a dung-cart. 2. This instrument, like the pillory, was used as a means of exposure; and accordi...
measure. A vessel of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads. ...
Eng. law. A right to dig turf; an easement. ...
A person under the superintendence of a jailor, whose employment is to open and fasten the prison doors and to prevent the prisoners from escaping. 2....
A public road paved with stones or other hard substance. 2. Turnpike roads are usually made by corporations to which a power to make them has been gra...
contracts. A base or vile consideration, forbidden by law, which makes the contract void; as a contract, the consideration of which is the future ille...
Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty or good morals, is said to be done with turpitude. ...
State of guardianship; the condition of one who is subject to the control of a guardian. ...
civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor. 2. By the laws of Louisiana minors under the ag...
Eng. law. The name given to a stranger who enters into the lands of an infant within the age of fourteen), and takes the profits. 2. He may be called ...
The name given to one who is rightly a guardian in socage in contradistinction, to a tutor alienus. (q. v.) ...
The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curators...
A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor. ...
The name given to a code of Roman laws, commonly called the Law of the Twelve Tables. (q. v.) ...
The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will b...
Eng. late. A certificate given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction, is so called. 2. By the 10 & 11. W. III., c. 23, the original proprietor or...
government. The violation of those laws which regulate the division and the exercises of the sovereign power of the state. It is a violation of -its c...
government. The chief magistrate of the state, whether legitimate or otherwise, who violates the constitution to act arbitrarily contrary to justice. ...
crim. law. To offer, to publish. 2. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, th...
To annul, to render an act void; as to vacate an entry which has been made on a record when the court has been imposed upon by fraud, or taken by surp...
estates. To give an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment; an estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of present enjoy...
To abandon or forsake a right.2. To waive signifies also to abandon without right, as ",if the felon waives, that is, leaves any goods in his flight f...
To know, that is to say, namely. See Scilicet....
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