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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... writ for- merly directed to the coroners of a county in England , commanding them to go to the sher- iff , where the latter had suppressed and neg- lected to return a writ of pone , and to deliver a writ to him requiring him to return ...
... writ for- merly directed to the coroners of a county in England , commanding them to go to the sher- iff , where the latter had suppressed and neg- lected to return a writ of pone , and to deliver a writ to him requiring him to return ...
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... WRIT . A phrase used when a defendant pleads some matter by which he shows that the plaintiff had no cause to have the writ sued upon , although it may be that he is entitled to another writ or action for the same matter . Cowell ...
... WRIT . A phrase used when a defendant pleads some matter by which he shows that the plaintiff had no cause to have the writ sued upon , although it may be that he is entitled to another writ or action for the same matter . Cowell ...
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... writ of inquiry ; a judicial writ , commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause pending in court . Cowell . AD INSTANTIAM . At the instance . 2 Mod . 44. Ad instantiam partis , at the in- stance of a party . Hale ...
... writ of inquiry ; a judicial writ , commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause pending in court . Cowell . AD INSTANTIAM . At the instance . 2 Mod . 44. Ad instantiam partis , at the in- stance of a party . Hale ...
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... writ of ad quod damnum , if any one will turn a common highway and lay out another way as beneficial . Termes de la Ley . AD QUOD NON FUIT RESPONSUM . To which there was no answer . A phrase used in the reports , where a point advanced ...
... writ of ad quod damnum , if any one will turn a common highway and lay out another way as beneficial . Termes de la Ley . AD QUOD NON FUIT RESPONSUM . To which there was no answer . A phrase used in the reports , where a point advanced ...
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... writ . An alias writ is a second writ issued in the same cause , where a former writ of the same kind had been issued without effect such case , the language of the second writ is , " We command you , as we have before [ sicut alias ] ...
... writ . An alias writ is a second writ issued in the same cause , where a former writ of the same kind had been issued without effect such case , the language of the second writ is , " We command you , as we have before [ sicut alias ] ...
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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.