A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern: And Including the Principal Terms of International, Constitutional, Ecclesiastical, and Commercial Law, and Medical Jurisprudence, with a Collection of Legal Maxims, Numerous Select Titles from the Roman, Modern Civil, Scotch, French, Spanish, and Mexican Law, and Other Foreign Systems, and a Table of Abbreviations |
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... issue ; at the end ( of the pleadings . ) Steph . Pl . 24 . 30 AD HUNC DIEM AD FACIENDUM . To do . Co. Litt . 204a . Ad faciendum , subjiciendum et recipiendum ; to do , submit to , and receive . Ad faciendam juratamillam ; to make up ...
... issue ; at the end ( of the pleadings . ) Steph . Pl . 24 . 30 AD HUNC DIEM AD FACIENDUM . To do . Co. Litt . 204a . Ad faciendum , subjiciendum et recipiendum ; to do , submit to , and receive . Ad faciendam juratamillam ; to make up ...
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... issue of fact not then ready for trial . - Adjournment day in error . In English practice . A day appointed some days before the end of the term at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished . 2 Tidd , Pr . 1176 ...
... issue of fact not then ready for trial . - Adjournment day in error . In English practice . A day appointed some days before the end of the term at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished . 2 Tidd , Pr . 1176 ...
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... issue . is under the obligation of making proof , in the first instance , of matters alleged , is said to hold the ... issues made by the pleadings or according to the legal or equitable rights of the parties as established by the ...
... issue . is under the obligation of making proof , in the first instance , of matters alleged , is said to hold the ... issues made by the pleadings or according to the legal or equitable rights of the parties as established by the ...
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... issue its promissory notes , ( designed to circulate as money , and commonly called " bank - notes " or " bank - bills , " ) or to perform any one or more of these functions . The term " bank " is usually restricted in its application ...
... issue its promissory notes , ( designed to circulate as money , and commonly called " bank - notes " or " bank - bills , " ) or to perform any one or more of these functions . The term " bank " is usually restricted in its application ...
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... issue in a certain way , which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction . Maddox v . State , 32 Ga . 587 ... issues impartially and without prejudice to the sub- stantial rights of the party challenging . State v . Chapman ...
... issue in a certain way , which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction . Maddox v . State , 32 Ga . 587 ... issues impartially and without prejudice to the sub- stantial rights of the party challenging . State v . Chapman ...
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Page 281 - A cause of action, arising out of the contract or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action.
Page 453 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed.
Page 299 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Page 249 - Any benefit conferred, or agreed to be conferred, upon the promisor, by any other person, to which the promisor is not lawfully entitled, or any prejudice suffered, or agreed to be suffered, by such person, other than such as he is at the time of consent lawfully bound to suffer, as an inducement to the promisor, is a good consideration for a promise.
Page 233 - Whenever the defendant seeks affirmative relief against any party, relating to or depending upon the contract, transaction, matter, happening or accident upon which the action is brought, or affecting the property to which the action relates...
Page 388 - In a strict and legal seN.se that is properly the domicil of a person where he has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus rercrtcndi) .u [Italics supplied.] Mr.
Page 82 - A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, or watercourse, or of a passage for light, air, or heat from or across the land of another.
Page 221 - Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities...
Page 27 - Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property...
Page 453 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.