To take an keep any personal chattel in custody, as a distress. (q. v.)...
To put out, to send forth, 2. The tenth section of the first article of the constitution, contains various prohibitions, among which is the following:...
practice. To make a list or roll, by the sheriff or other authorized officer, of the names of jurors who are summoned to appear for the performance of...
To establish by law, to perform or effect, to decree. The usual formula in making laws is, Be it enacted....
To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. Vide Feoffment....
To make free to incorporate a man in a society or body politic. Cunn. L. D. h. t. Vide Disfranchise....
practice, conveyancing. To copy the rude draught of an instrument in a fair and large hand. See 3 Bouv. Inst. n, 2421, note....
To command, to require, as, private individuals are not only permitted, but enjoined by law to arrest an offender when present at the time a felony is...
To extend, as, to enlarge a rule to plead, is to extend the time during which a defendant may plead. To enlarge, means also to set at liberty, as, the...
To register, to enter on the rolls of chancery, or other courts, to make a record....
To create an estate tail. Vide Tail....
To take, or have effect or serve to the use, benefit, or advantage of a person. The word is often written inure. A release to the tenant for life, enu...
To make, to perform, to do, to follow out. This term is frequently used in the law, as, to execute a deed is to make a deed. 2. It also signifies to p...
To produce a thing publicly, so that it may be taken possession of, or seized. Dig. 10, 4, 2. To exhibit means also to file of record, as, it is the p...
crim. law. To prove a thing to be false, as, " to falsify a record." Tech. Dict., Co. Litt. 104 b. To alter or make false a record. This is punishable...
chancery practice. When a bill to open an account has been filed, the plaintiff is sometimes allowed to surcharge and falsify such account, and if any...
These words in a lease have the effect of creating a lease for years. Co. Litt. 45 b, 2 Mod. 250....
To render liable.2. This term is applied to the condition of special bail, when the plaintiff has issued a ca. sa. which has been returned by the sher...
crim. law, torts. To swear to a falsehood.2. This word has not the same meaning as perjury. It does not, ex vi termini, signify a false swearing befor...
To warn, to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete....
torts. To receive clandestinely or without lawful authority a person for the purpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful cu...
These words are used in deeds for the conveyance of land, in that clause which usually declared for what estate the land is granted. The same as Haben...
These words are now used in a deed to express by what tenure the grantee is to have the land. The clause which commences with these words is called th...
contr. To accept a bill of exchange; to pay a bill accepted, or a promissory note, on the day it becomes due. 7 Taunt. 164; 1 T. R. 172. Vide To Disho...
Eng. law. In cases of treason the law makes it a crime to imagine the death of the king. In order to complete the offence there must, however, be an o...
practice. The writing the names of a jury on a schedule, by the sheriff or other officer lawfully authorized....
To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor....
To write on the back. Bills of exchange and promissory notes are indorsed by the party writing his name on the back; writing one s name on the back of...
To name or to make an heir by testament. Dig. 28, 5, 65. To make an accusation; to commence an action....
To take effect; as, the pardon inures....
contracts. To lay out money in such a manner that it may bring a revenue; as, to invest money in houses or stocks; to give possession. 2. This word, w...
To hire, to lease; to grant the use and possession of something for a compensation.2. This term is applied to real estate and the words to hire are mo...
That which is proper, is fit; as, an action on the case lies for an injury committed without force; corporeal hereditaments lie in livery, that is, th...
crim. law. To deprive a person of such part of his body as to ren- der him less able in fighting or defending himself than he would have otherwise bee...
English law. To perform or execute; as to make his law, is to per- form that law which a man had bound himself to do; that is, to clear himself of an ...
mar. law. By this term is understood to collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms; it also signifies to employ recruits and put their names...
civil law. To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig., 1, 3, 32. ...
To open a case is to make a statement of the pleadings in a case, which is called the opening. 2. The opening should be concise, very distinct and per...
When a banker accepts or pays a bill of exchange drawn on him by a correspondent, who has not furnished him with funds, he is said to open a credit wi...
To draw bills or cheeks upon an individual, bank or other corporation, for a greater amount of funds than the party who draws is entitled to. 2. When ...
To annul, to make void. This word is frequently used to signify that a case has been decided directly opposite to a former case; when this takes place...
To deceive by false appearance; to counterfeit; to delude; as packing a jury. (q. v.) Bac. Ab. Juries, M; 12 Conn. R. 262. PACT, civil law. An agreeme...
To accomplish, to complete, to decide. 2. The title to goods passes by the sale whenever the parties have agreed upon the sale and the price, and noth...
To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. 2. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. 3. When two or more persons die by the same acci...
crim. law. The act of assuming the character of another without lawful authority, and, in such character, doing something to his prejudice, or to the ...
To persuade is to induce to act: persuading is inducing-others to act. lnst. 4, 6, 23; Dig. 11, 3, 1, 5. 2. In the act of the legislature which declar...
The formal entry of the defendant s defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so used by the prof...
The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder. See Booty; P...
To offer, to propose; as, the onus probandi in every case lies upon the party who propounds ia will. 1 Curt. R. 637; 6 Eng. Eccl. R. 417. ...
pleading. To select, to demand; as, the said C D puts himself upon the country; that is, he selects the trial by jury, as the mode of settling the mat...
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