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 the executive power, and is
distinguished from one, who being legally entitled to such power is
ejected from it; the latter would be a president de jure. An officer de
facto is frequently considered as an officer de jure, and his official
acts are of equal validity. 10 S. & R. 250; 4 Binn. R. 371; 11 S.
& R. 411, 414; Coxe, 318; 9 Mass. 231; 10 Mass. 290; 15 Mass. 180; 5 Pick. 487.
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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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ACT , civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. In Latin, Instrumentum... -
CONSANGUINITY The relation subsisting among all the different persons descendiug from the same stock, or common ancestor. Vaughan, 32... -
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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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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... ALIMENTS . In the Roman and French law this word signifies the food and other things necessary to the support of life, as clo... -
PARTIES , contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement. 2. Al... -
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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... -
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ABBREVIATIONS and abbreviated references. The following list, though necessarily incomplete, may be useful to some readers. A, a, the... -
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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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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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