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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SCIRE FIERI INQUIRY, Eng. law. The name of a writ, the history of the origin of which is as follows: when on an execution de bonis te... -
SIGN, contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words. 2. Contracts are express or implied. The expres...
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SLANDER, torts. The defaming a man in his reputation by speaking or writing words which affect his life, office, or trade, or which t... -
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CONSTITUTIONAL . That which is consonant to, and agrees with the constitu- tion. 2. When laws are made in violation of the const... -
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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...
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CONTINUANCE , practice. The adjournment of a cause from one day to another is called a continuance, an entry of which is made upon the... -
CITATION , practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent, jurisdiction, commanding a person therein named to appear and do somet...
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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... -
HABEAS CORPUS , remedies A writ of habeas corpus is an order in writing, signed by the judge who grants the same, and sealed with the ... -
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APPORTIONMENT , contracts. Lord Coke defines it to be a division or partition of a rent, common, or the like, or the making it into pa... -
SATISFACTION: construction by courts of equity. Satisfaction is defined to be the donation of a thing, with the intention, express or ... -
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COMMON . or right of common, English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of anot... -
CONSANGUINITY The relation subsisting among all the different persons descendiug from the same stock, or common ancestor. Vaughan, 32... -
MISSISSIPPI. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union, by a resoluti...
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LABEL. A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the same. This name is also given to an app... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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