k and labor done, and materials furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant, and when the work was not done under a special contract, the plaintiff w...
A prison where prisoners are kept in employment, a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment....
In settling laydays, (q. v.) or days of demurrage, (q. v.) sometimes the contract specifies working days in the computation, Sundays and custom-house ...
One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another.2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do, to do ...
The honor and homage rendered to the Creator.2. In the United States, this is free, every one being at liberty to worship God according to the dictate...
Eng. law. A title or addition given to certain persons. 2 Inst. 666, Bac. Ab. Misnomer, A 2....
All expression to designate that, in descent, the sons are to be preferred to daughters, which is the law of England. See some singular reasons given ...
med. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when used in surgery....
mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land...
practice. A mandatory precept issued by the authority, and in the name of the sovereign or the state, for the purpose of compelling the defendant to d...
An ancient writ which was issued in the case of each prisoner, instead of a general commission of general jail delivery for all the prisoners. This wr...
The name of an ancient writ, now superseded by the more convenient remedy of an action on the case, which might have been sued against parties guilty ...
The name of a writ which lies where one man has done anything in the name of another, by which the latter is damnified and deceived. F. N. B. 217.2. T...
A writ of ejectment. Vide Ejectment, and 3 Bl. Com. 199....
Engl. law. The name of a writ formerly issued by the secular courts, when a man was turned over to them by the ecclesiastical tribunals, after having ...
practice. A writ which lies to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of any private person, in the same manner in which cattle taken in d...
ged with murder was committed upon just cause or suspicion, or merely propter odium et atiam, for hatred and ill-will, and, if upon the inquisition du...
practice. A writ which lies where a party claims damage for breach of covenant, i. e. of a promise under seal....
practice. A writ which lies where the party claims the re-covery of a debt, i. e. a liquidated or certain sum of money alleged to be due to him. This ...
practice. A writ which lies where a party claims the spe-cific recovery of goods and chattels, or deeds and writings detained from him. This is seldom...
practice. A writ which lies for a widow ciaiming the specific recovery of her dower, no part having been yet assigned to her. It is usually called a w...
practice. The name of a process issued by a party claiming land or other real estate, against one who is alleged to be unlawfully in possession. Vide ...
practice. A writ requiring the sheriff to command the tenant of land that he render to the demandant the premises in question, or to appear in court o...
practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction, directed to the judge of a court of record in which final judgment has been given, a...
practice. A writ to put in force the sentence that the law has given: it is addressed to the Sheriff (and in the courts of the United States, to the m...
The name of a process issued in the course of proceedings in outlawry, and which immediately precedes the writ of capias agatum. See Exigent, or Exigi...
practice. This writ lies where a party claims the specific recovery of lands and tenements, as issue in tail, or as remainder-man or reversioner, upon...
e, it may be executed before a deputy of the sheriff. 2 John R. 63. Vide Steph. Pl. 126, Grah. Pr. 639, 2 Archb. Pr. 19, Tidds Pr. 513, Yelv. 152, n.,...
practice. In England those writs which issue from the common law courts during the progress of a suit, are described as judicial writs, by way of dist...
English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either gen-erally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offence, and bail has been refused, or speci...
Breve de medio, old English law. A writ which was so called, by reason of the words used in the writ, namely, Unde idem A qui medius est inter C et pr...
practice, English law. An original writ is a mandatory letter issuing out of the court of chancery under the great seal and in a kings name, directed ...
practice. The name of a process issued for the recovery of goods and chattels. Vide Replevin....
This writ is also called a writ of covenant, and is sued out by the party to whom lands are to be conveyed by fine, the foundation of which is a suppo...
This name is given to certain writs which may be issued in anticipation of suits which may arise. Co. Litt. 100. See Quia Timet....
A writ which was sued out by a widow when the executors of her deceased husband refused to let her have a third part of her late husbands goods after ...
A writ which is issued on the reversal of a judgment, commanding the sheriff to restore to the defendant below, the thing levied upon, if it has not b...
remedies, practice. The name of a writ which re-cites that the defendant was summoned to appear to answer the plaintiff in a plea whereof he took the ...
Engl. law, pradice. If the defendant does not appear, in obedience to the original writ, there issue, when the time for appearance is past, other writ...
Engl. practice. A writ which issues, at the same time with the exigi facias, by virtue of Stat. 31 Eliz. c. 3, s. 1, by which the sheriff is commanded...
English law. The remedy by which, where the right of a party to benefice is obstructed, he recovers the presentation, and is the form of action now co...
practice. This writ lies where, pending an action of replevin, the same distrainor takes, for the same supposed cause, the cattle or goods of the same...
practice. The remedly appropriate to the case where a party claims the specific recovery of corporeal hereditaments in fee simple, founding his title ...
practice. This writ lies where a party claims damages for a trespass committed against his person, or tangible and corporeal property. See Trespass....
d on the particular circumstances of the case thus requiring a remedy, and, to distinguish them from the old writ of trespass, 3 Reeves, 89, 243, 391,...
Eng. law. The name of a writ to remove proceedings on a writ of right patent from the court baron into the county court. 3 Bl. Commen-taries, App. No....
The name of a writ to be issued against a tenant who has committed waste of the premises. There are several forms of this writ, that against a tenant ...
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so ...
A bond, an agreement reduced to writing, by which the party becomes bound to perform something, or suffer it to be done....
An injury, (q. v.) a tort (q. v.) a violation of right. In its most usual sense, wrong signifies an injury committed to the person or property of anot...
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