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STATE: government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons... -
MEASURE. That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses... -
SOURCES OF THE LAW: By this expression is understood the authority from which the laws derive their force. 2. The power of making...
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SOVEREIGN. A chief ruler with supreme power; one possessing sovereignty. (q. v.) It is also applied to a king or other magistrate wit...
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M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. -
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... -
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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SOMNAMBULISM, med. juris. Sleep walking. 2. This is sometimes an inferior species of insanity, the patient being unconscious of wha...
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TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate de-fences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely o...
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DONATIO MORTIS CAUSA , contracts, legacies. A gift in prospect of death. When a person in sickness, apprehend ing his dissolution near... -
SALARY: A reward or recompense for services performed. 2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the perfo... -
SANCTION: That part of a law which inflicts a penalty for its violation, or bestows a reward for its observance. Sanctions are of two ... -
ANCIENT . Something old, which by age alone has acquired some force; as ancient lights, ancient writings. ANCIENT DEMESNE , Eng. law.... -
MERGER. Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied t...
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Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right as stated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Every... -
WRIT, practice. A mandatory precept issued by the authority, and in the name of the sovereign or the state, for the purpose of compelli... -
AGENCY , contracts. An agreement, express , or implied, by which one of the parties, called the principal, confides to the other, deno... -
BILL OF ADVENTURE , com. law, contracts. A writing signed by a merchant, to testify that the goods shipped on board a certain vessel...
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CONSULTATION , practice. A conference between the counsel or attorneys engaged on the same side of a cause, for the purpose of examini... -
SALARY: A reward or recompense for services performed. 2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the perfo...
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Mathis v. United States Docket Number: 15-6092 Date Argued: 04/26/16 Issue: Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Cr... -
CODE , legislation. Signifies in general a collection of laws. It is a name given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made... -
CONSTITUTIONAL . That which is consonant to, and agrees with the constitu- tion. 2. When laws are made in violation of the const... -
KIDNAPPING : The forcible and unlawful abduction and conveying away of a man, woman, or child, from his or her home, without his or he... -
CONTEMPT , crim. law. A wilful disregard or disobedience of a public authoritoy. 2. By the Constitution of the United States, each ho... -
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right as stated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Every...
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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...
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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... -
M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. -
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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