AID PRAYER, English law. A petition to the court calling in help
from another person who has an interest in the matter in dispute. For
example, a tenant for life, by the courtesy or for years, being
impleaded, may pray aid of him in reversion; that is, desire the court
that he may be called by writ, to allege what he thinks proper for the
maintenance of the right of the person calling him, and of his own. F.
N. B. 60; Cowel.
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CANON , eccl. law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate... -
CAPIAS , practice. This word, the signification of which is " that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Sever... -
CARRIERS , contracts. There are two kinds of carriers, namely, common carriers, (q. v.) who have been considered under another head; a... -
TO SEQUESTER, civil and eccles. law. To renounce. Example, when a widow comes into court and disclaims having anything to do, or to i... -
This word, derived from the French parlement, in the English law, is used to designate the legislative branch of the government of Great Br...
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DEBT , contracts. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement. 3 Bl. Com. 154. In a less technical sense, as in the "act ... -
DECEIT , tort. A fraudulent. misrepresentation or contrivance, by which one man deceives another, who has no means of detecting the fr... -
DE FACTO , i. e. in deed. A term used to denote a thing actually done; a president of the United States de facto is one in the exercise of...
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TO COMMIT . To send a person to prison by virtue of a warrant or other lawful writ, for the commission of a crime, offence or misdemeano...
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CONCEALMENT , contracts. The unlawful suppression of any fact or circumstance, by one of the partis to a contract, from the other, which... -
COMPENSATIO CRIMINIS . The compensation or set-off of one crime against another; for example, in questions of divorce, where one party c...
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CONSENT . An agreement to something proposed, and differs from assent. (q. v.) Wolff, Ins. Nat. part 1, SSSS 27-30; Pard. Dr. Com. par... -
USURY, contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the lender of a sum of money from the borrower for its use. In ... -
CONDONATION . A term used in the canon law. It is a forgiveness by the husband of his wife, or by a wife of her husband, of adultery c...
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TO UTTER, crim. law. To offer, to publish. 2. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirect...
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SECRET. That which is not to be revealed. 2. Attorneys and counsellors, who have been trusted professionally with the secrets of th...
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MAGNA CHARTA. The great charter. The name of an instrument granted by King John, June 19, 1215, which secured to the English people m... -
CONSTRUCTION , practice. It is defined by Mr. Powell to be "the drawing in inference by the act of reason, as to the intent of an... -
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SET, contracts. Foreign bills of exchange are generally drawn in parts; as, "pay this my first bill of exchange, second and thir...
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SELF-DEFENCE, crim. law. The right to protect one's person and property from injury. 2. It will be proper to consider, 1. The ex... -
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ABBREVIATIONS and abbreviated references. The following list, though necessarily incomplete, may be useful to some readers. A, a, the... -
TO ADMINISTER, ADMINISTERING . The stat. 9 G. IV. c. 31, S. 11, enacts "that if any person unlawfully and maliciously shall admin... -
ARTICLES . A division in some books. In agreements and other writings, for the sake of perspicuity, the subjects are divided into part...
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SABBATH. The same as Sunday. (q. v.) SABINIANS. A sect of lawyers, whose first chief was Atteius Capito, and the second, Caelius S... -
PACE . A measure of length containing two feet and a half; the geometrical pace is five feet long. The common pace is the length of a... -
... ALIMENTS . In the Roman and French law this word signifies the food and other things necessary to the support of life, as clo... -
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GABEL . A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France . Cunn. Dict... -
CONSTITUTIONAL . That which is consonant to, and agrees with the constitu- tion. 2. When laws are made in violation of the const... -
CABALLERIA , Spanish law. A measure of land, which is different in different provinces. Diccionario por la Real Academia. In those ... -
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E CONVERSO . On the other side or hand; on the contrary. E PLURIBUS UNUM . One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States... -
A , the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q. v.) and also in the marks of ...
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