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of a corporation, for its government, and is a legislative act, and the solemnities and sanction required by the charter must be observed. <A resolution is not necessarily a Le steel though a beck ve may be in the form of a ~ eon P Elliott, 79 ik 10,...
58a. Also a vassal holding directly from the king.
1 Salk. 222. Alta via regia; the King’s highway; “the king’s high street.” Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 9.
438, 37 S. E. 573.— Disorderly persons. Such as are dangerous or hurtful to the public peace and welfare by reason of their misconduct or vicious habits, and are therefore amendable to police regulation. The phrase is chiefly used in statutes, and ...
758; People v. Stone, 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 188.—False verdict. See VERDICT.—False weights. False weights and ‘measures are such as do not comply with the ‘standard prescribed by the state or government, or with the custom prevailing in the
473.—Political liberty. Liberty of the citizen to parc ate in the operations of government, and particularly in the making and administration of the laws. —Religious liberty. Freedum from_dictation, constraint, or control in matters affecting the...
Lat. An officer having charge of the correspondence (eptstole) of his superior or sovereign; a secretary. Calvin.; Splegelias. ;
(U. S.) 364, Fed. Cas. No. 15,254. ; (U. 8S.) 423, Fed. Cas. No. 12,801.—Collateral undertaking. “Collateral” and “original’? have become the technical terms whereby 0. ©. Abbott’s Circuit Court, United States.
164, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,111; King v.
termed a liberty of freedom, because, wherever this word is used in a grant, the persons to whom the grant is made have the forfeltures and amercements of all others, and.are themselves free from the control of any within their fee. Termes de la Ley,...
one, wheit. the later statute contains provisidns which are inconsistent with the further cons tinuance of the earlier law; or a statute ia im-, pliedly abrogated. when the reason of it, or ‘the’ object for which it was passed, no longer’ exist...
A parliament so called was held at Dublin, 10th May, 8 Hen. VIII. It is mentioned in letters patent 29 Hen. VIII.
(Lat. As if.) Townsh. Pl. on 27, These words frequently occur in old English statutes. Lord Bacon expounds their meaning in the statute of uses: “The statute gives entry, not sémpliciter, but with an ac si.” Bac. Rend. Uses, Works, iv. 195.
is a species of donation, but not subject to. the forms of the latter, and is valid unless in fraud of creditors. Merl. Repert.
parliament to receive all money lodged in court, and to place the same in the Bank of
c. 105, power is given for the crown to grant licenses for the formation of councils of concillation and arbitra-
English law. <A _ statute, otherwise called “Statutum de Mercatoribus,” made at a parliament held at the castle of Acton Burnel in Shropshire, in the 11th year of the reign of Edward I. 2 Reeves, Eng. Law, 158-162.
396, 82 S. W. 66. —Election judges. In English law. Judges of the high court selected in pursuance of 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125, § 11, and Jud. Act 1873, § 38, for the trial of election petitions —Election petitions. Petitions for inquiry into the v...
lIat. In the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, addico was one of the three words used to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the preetors.
ADJOURNED TERM. In practice. A continuance, by adjournment, of a regular term. Harris v. Gest, 4 Ohio St. 473; Kingsley v. Bagby, 2 Kan. App. 23, 41 Pac. 991. Distinguished from an “additional term,” which is a distinct term. Id. An adjourned ter...
ELIZABETH. Certain articles or: ordinances drawn up by Archbishop Parker and some of the bishops in 1564, at the request of Queen Elizabeth, the object of which was to enforce decency and uniformity in the ritual of the church. The queen subsequently...
e., after the end of the county court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for the receipt of the king’s money after the end of his county, or county court.
EXEMPLI GRATIA. For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often. abbreviated “ew. gr.” or “é. g.” INTERVENTION. Im international law. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (according to the event) result ...
Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild ; ‘that is, the customary fine or pe-
949, 41 8S. B. 78. —Oriminal operation. In medical jurisprudence. An operation to procure an abortion. Miller v. Bayer, 94 Wis. , 68 N. W. 869.— Operation of law. This term expresses the manner in which rights, and sometimes liabilities, devolve ...
386, 10 Am. Dec. 151.—Judicial question. One proper for the determination of a court of justice. as distincues from such questions as belong to the ecision of the legislative or executive departvernment and with which the courts will not interfere,...
Ambassador is the commissioner who represents one country in the seat of government of another.. He is a public minister, which, usually, a consul is not. Brown.
subject to change. held sometimes in one place and sometimes in another. So, in France, the supreme court or parliament was originally ambulatory. 3
AN. The English indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents, it is equivalent to “one” or “any;” is seldom used to denote plurality. Kaufman y. Superior
63-72 Connecticut;—Andrews’ English King’s Bench Reports.