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18,497. -~-Compilation. A literary production, composed of the works of others and arranged in a methodical manner.—Compiled statutes. A collection of the statutes existing and in force in a given state, all laws and parts of laws relating to each ...
LEARNED. Possessing learning; erudite; versed in the law. In statutes prescribing the qualifications of judges, ‘learned in the law” designates one who has recelved a regular legal education, the almost invariable evidence of which is the fact of...
name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220 and 1268. 1 BL Comm. 83.
(or Leon.). Leonard’s English King’ } ‘Bench Reports.
295. 243. Every grant of our lord the king ought to be taken strictly against our lord the king, when it can be understood in two ways.
Lat. For the sake of lightening the ship; denotes a purpose of throwing overboard goods, which renders them subjects of general average.
and all who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are leagued in the general conspiracy, are considered as engaged in levying war, within the meaning of the constitution. Const. art. 3, § 3; Ex parte B...
Lat. (Feminine of liber, adj.) Free; at liberty; exempt; not subject to toll or charge.
Lat. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin.
writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privi-
NERE. An ancient writ whereby the king commanded the justices in eyre to admit of an attorney for the defense of another’s liberty. Reg. Orig. 19.
250.—Jura dominii. In old English law. Rights of mixed dominion. The king’s right or power of jurisdiction was so termed. Hale, Anal. § 6.—Jura personarum. Rights of persons; the rights of persuns. Rights which concern and are annexed to the p...
v. Asher, 65 S. W. 831 23 Ky. Law Rep. 1661; Bank v. Marston, 85
148 U. 8. 92, 13 Sup. Ct. 485, 37 L. Ed. 880.—Real privflege. In English law. A privilege granted to, or concerning. a particular place or locality. —Special privilege. In constitutional law. A right, power, franchise, immunity, or privilege gran...
(or Macy. H. L. Cas.). Macqueen’s Scotch Appeal Cases (House of Lords).
MAD POINT. A term used to designate the idea or subject to which is confined the derangement of the mental faculties of one suffering from monomania. Owing’s Case, 1
MADRAS REGULATIONS. Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & Whitley.
cient writ to summon four lawful knights before the justices of assize, there to choose twelve others, with themselves to constitute the grand assize or great jury, to try the matter of right. The trial by grand assize was instituted by Henry IL in p...
MAGNUM CONCILIUM. In old Englsh law. The great council; the general council of the realm; afterwards called “parliament.” 1 Bl. Comm. 148; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 62; Spelman.
The great statute roll. The first of the English statute roils, beginning with Magne Charta,.and ending with Edward III. Hale, Com. Law, 16, 17.
, MAINPRISE. The delivery of a person into the custody of mainpernors, (q. v.) Also the name of a writ (now obsolete) commanding the sheriff to take the security of mainpernors and set the party at liberty.
one who is no longer a minor; one who has attained the management of his own concerns and the enjoyment of his. civic rights.
148, 4 L. Ed. 206; De lano v. Bedford Ins. Co., 10 Mass. 351, 6 Am.
was also used by a father in making a fictitious sale of his son, which sale, when three times repeated, effectuated the emancipation of the son. : 805, 47 N. E. 623; Atlanta v. Wright, 119
(I have commanded or made my mandate to the balliff.) In English practice. The return made by a sheriff, where the bailiff of a liberty has the execution of a writ, that he has commanded the bailiff to execute it. 1 Tidd, Pr. 300; 2
executive authority of a state or nation, proclaiming its reasons and motiyes for declaring a war, or for any other important international action.
h. 475, 65 Pac. 782.—Managers of a conference. Members of the houses of parliament appointed to represent each house at a conference between the two houses. It is an ancient rule that the number of commons named for a conference should be double th...
1901, p. 488), composed of the circuit justice, the circuit judge, and an additional circuit Judge appointed for each such court, and having appellate jurisdiction from the circuit and district courts except in certain specified classes of cases,
(or Maule & 8.). Maule & Selwyn’s English King’s Bench Reports.
iInterp.St. Maxwell on the Interpretation of Statutes.