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69. 118. Where a delay in an action is the act of the court, neither party shall suffer for it. 281. 102. 83. . p. 68, case 28. The employment of more means or instruments for effecting a thing than are necessary is to no purpose. 120, cited L....
Lat. Persons in the county palatine of Chester, who, on a writ of error, were to consider of the judgment given there, and reform it; otherwise they forfeited £100 to the crown by custom. Jenk. Cent. 71.
Lat. Plural of “jus.” Rights; laws. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. See Jus. —Jura fiscalia. In English law. Fiscal rights; rights of the exchequer. 3 Bl. Comm. civil law to designate certain rights which belong to each and every sovereignty and which are de...
made the subject of legal sanction or recognition. the common law, as distinguished from the assisa.
Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, on account of the necessity of dispensing justice. 10 Coke, 73a.
JURISDICTIONAL. Pertaining or relating to jurisdiction; conferring jurisdic tion; showing or disclosing jurisdiction; defining or limiting jurisdiction; essential to jurisdiction. ;
981.—Equity jurisprudence. That portion of remedial justice which is exclusively administered by courts of equity, as distinguished from courts of common law. Jackson v. Nimmo, 3 Lea (Tenn.) 609.—Equity of a statute. By this phrase is intended th...
(or Kebl.). Keble’s English King's Bench Reports.
(or Keilw.). King’s Bench Reports.
1. Sir John Kelyng’s English Crown Cases. 2 William Kelynge’s English Chancery Reports.
188... The king is the origin of all franchises.
339 leo N. W . 181, wn ‘by; ae ae v. on Co., 201 ee 78, oO run 94; Dairy Ass’n Y.
406, 56 8S. W. 534; Dean v.
5, 6 Louisiana Annual. l
KILLYTH-STALLION. A custom by which lords of manors were bound to provide a stallion for the use of their tenants’ mares. Spelman.
An officer of the court of King's bench, usually called “the master of the crown oflfice,” whose duty it is to file informuiions at the suit of a private subject by direction of the court. + Bl. Comm. 308, 300; 4 Steph. Comm. 374, 378.
(or Kitoh. Courts). Kitchin on Jurisdictions of Courts-Leet, Courts-Baron, etc.
v. Foley, 105 U. 8. 354, 26 L. Ed. 1055; Conner v. Citizens’ St. R.
L.J.QA.B. Law Journal, Queen's Bench (1831 on).
AUDIENCE. In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who comes to him duly accredited; and, after the recall of a minister, an ‘‘audience ...
78. 119. 369.—Compulsory monsuit. An involuntary nonsuit. See Nonsurt.—Compualsory ueymnent: One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking advantage of another. Shaw v. Wood...
191, 12 C. ©O. A. 566.—Road tax. <A tax for the maintenance and repair of the public roads within the par ticular jurisdiction, levied either in money or in the form of so many days’ labor on the public roads exacted ofall the inhabitants of the...
Latch’s English King’s Sein Re-
Lat. In the civil law and old English practice. <A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract. fol. 126.
on ae of things; the rights of things; rights which a man may acquire over external objects or things unconnected with his person. 1 Bi. Comm. 122; 2
442.—Election dower. A name sometimes given to the provision which a law or statute makes for a widow in case she “elects” to reject the provision made for her in the will and take what the statute accords.
ree of office were more frequent in practice during’ the continuance of the military, tenures than at present; and were devised by law as an authentic means to. give the king his right by solemn matter of record. Id. 258, : 4 Steph.:Comm. 40, 41. S...
463, 19 South. 211.—Judicial dicta. Dicta made by a court or judge in the course of a judicial decision or opinion. Com. v. Paine, 207 Pa. 45, 56 Atl. 317. See DicruM.—Judicial district. One of the circuits or ‘precincts into which a state is c...
liament.—Le roy (or la reine) remercie ses loyal sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veut. e king (or'the queen) thanks his (or her) loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and therefore wills it to be so. The form of the royal assent ...
L. Leach, Cases in Crown Law.