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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... -
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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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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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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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... -
M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. -
CABALLERIA , Spanish law. A measure of land, which is different in different provinces. Diccionario por la Real Academia. In those ...
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MANDATE, practice. A judicial command or precept issued by a court or magistrate, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment,...
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MANIA , med. jur. This subject will be considered by examining it, first, in a medical point of view; and, secondly, as to its legal c... -
DYVOUR'S HABIT . Scotch law. A habit which debtors, who are set free on a cessio bonorum, are obliged to wear, unless in the summons ... -
COMMISSION , contracts, civ. law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This ... -
As defined by Miller v. California’s three prong test, to be obscene material must (1) be a work that the average person, applying contempor... -
MATERIAL MEN. This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and othe...
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COHABITATION . Living together. 2. The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit, even after a voluntary separation has taken place... -
ABORTION , med jur. and criminal law. The expulsion of the foetus before the seventh mouth of utero-gestation, or before it is viable.... -
CHARGE , practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them. 2. It should contai...
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MANIFEST, com. law. A written instrument containing a true account of the cargo of a ship or commercial vessel. 2. The Act of March ...
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DYVOUR'S HABIT . Scotch law. A habit which debtors, who are set free on a cessio bonorum, are obliged to wear, unless in the summons ...
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MANDATE, practice. A judicial command or precept issued by a court or magistrate, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment,...
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AMBASSADOR , international law. A public minister sent abroad by some sovereign state or prince, with a legal commission and authority...
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MANIA , med. jur. This subject will be considered by examining it, first, in a medical point of view; and, secondly, as to its legal c...
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TEXAS. The name of one of the new states of the United, States of America. Texas was an independent republic. By the joint resolution... -
MATERIAL MEN. This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and othe...
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QUOUSQUE . A Latin adverb, which signifies how long, how far, until. 2. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Co. 4... -
MANDAMUS, practice. The name of a writ, the principal word of which when the proceedings were in Latin, was mandamus, we command. 2. ...
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ALIEN , persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who has not since been naturalized under their constitution and...
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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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