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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... -
CABALLERIA , Spanish law. A measure of land, which is different in different provinces. Diccionario por la Real Academia. In those ... -
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 ... -
CONSTITUTIONAL . That which is consonant to, and agrees with the constitu- tion. 2. When laws are made in violation of the const... -
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... -
... ALIMENTS . In the Roman and French law this word signifies the food and other things necessary to the support of life, as clo... -
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 ... -
UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY, crim. law. A disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons who meet together with an intent mutually to ... -
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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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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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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AMBASSADOR , international law. A public minister sent abroad by some sovereign state or prince, with a legal commission and authority... -
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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M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. -
BACHELOR. The first degree taken at the universities in the arts and sciences, as bachelor of arts, & c. It is called, in Latin, Bacc... -
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... -
ACCESS , persons. Approach, or the means or power of approaching. Sometimes by access is understood sexual intercourse; at other times...
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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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