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DAM . A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole. 2. T... -
CAPITAL CRIME . One for the punishment of which death is inflicted, which punishment is called capital punishment. Dane's Ab. Index, h... -
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... -
DAM . A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole. 2. T...
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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... -
PARLIAMENT . This word, derived from the French parlement, in the English law, is used to designate the legislative branch of the gove... -
ABBREVIATIONS and abbreviated references. The following list, though necessarily incomplete, may be useful to some readers. A, a, the... -
TO SETTLE. To adjust or ascertain to pay. 2. Two contracting parties are said to settle an account when they ascertain what is just...
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TO ADMINISTER, ADMINISTERING . The stat. 9 G. IV. c. 31, S. 11, enacts "that if any person unlawfully and maliciously shall admin...
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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 ... -
DAM . A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole. 2. T... -
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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