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216, 33 Pac. 841. —Legal incapacity. This expression implies that the person in view has the right vested in him, but is prevented by some impediment from exercising it; as in the case of minors, femes covert, lunatics, etc. An administrator has no...
' BOROUGH. In English law. A town, a walled town. Co. Litt. 1083. A town of note or importance; a fortified town. Cowell. An ancient town. Litt. 164. A corporate town that is not a city. Cowell. An ancient town. Corporate or not, that sends burgesses...
COURT. A certain allowance of provision from the king to his knights and. servants, who attended him on any military expedition.
198. 257; Reg. Orig. 204. 226; Reg. Orig. 2580. . 798, G, 80. 61, BR; Old Nat. Brev. 142. 309, D. 83, C. The same writ lay for one who had already served in the king’s army, or paid a fine instead, against those who held of him by knight-serv...
compilation of Roman law made by order of Alaric II., king of the Visigoths, in Spain, and published for the use of his Roman subjects in the year 506..
(8) The tax or duty imposed
50.—Tippling house. A place where intoxicating Hquors are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, and where men resort for drinking purposes.
53-65 Mississippi ;—Brown’s English Parliamentary Cases;—Brown’s English Chancery Reports;—Brown’s Law Dictionary ;—Brown's Scotch Reports;—Brown’s United States District Court Reports ;—Brown's U. & Admiralty Reports:—Brown’s...
(Del.) 176, 30 Atl. 779; Boren v. State, 23 Tex. App. 28, 4 8. W. 463; Bailey v. Mosher, 68 Fed. 490, 11 C. C. A. 304; Ryan v. Riddle, 109 Mo. (Del.) 176, 30 Atl. 779; Smith v. Fowle, 12 Wend. (N.
386, 1 L. Ed. 648. st facto” and “retrospective” are not convertible terms: The latter is a term of wider signification than the former and includes it. All ep post facto laws are necessarily retrospective, but not e conwerso. A curative or con...
(or Burr.). Burrow’s English King’s Bench Reports.
c. 58, summary proceedings at law were provided for the same purpose, in actions of assumpsit, debt, detinue, and trover. And the ‘Bame, remedy is known, in one form or the other, in most or all of the United States.
626. —Clean hands. It is a rul cog at he aity, that plaintiff must come with “clean ha must be free from reproach in his aondice er there is this limitation to the rule: that his conduct can only be excepted to in respect to the subject-matter of...
331; U. 8. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2228; State v. Armour Packing Co., 124 Iowa, 828, 100 N. W. 60; People v. Arensburg, 105
3 McCord (8. ©). 461. Properly speaking, however, one is sot
1. A Jaw, rule, or ordinance in general. and of the church in particular. An ecclesiastical law or statute.
114, 32 Atl. T80.—Open verdict. A verdict of a coroner's jury which finde that the subject “came to his death by means to the jury unknown.” or “came to his death at the hands of a person or persons to the jury un-
CARIAGIUM. In old English law. Car- Fiage; the carrying of goods or other things for the king.
from the sovereign authority, by which a decree or judgment in the court of last resort is broken or annulled. Merl. Repert.
In old English law. The precinct or jurisdiction of a castle. Blount.
Lat. Chance; accident; an event; a case; a case contemplated. wreck, etc. Dig. 44, 7, 1, 4—Oasus omissus. A case omitted; an event or contingency for which no provision is made; particularly a case not provided for by the statute on the general su...
with statistics of wealth, commerce, education, etc. Huntington v. Cast, 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v. Paris, 10 Hawail, 581.
STAPULZ. In English law. A writ commanding the mayor of the staple to certify to the lord chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where the party himself detains it, and refuses to bring in the same. There
is a like writ to certify a statute-merchant, and in divers other cases. Reg. Orig. 148, 151, 152. erty. Christie v. Duluth, 82 Minn. 202, 84 N. W. 754.—Certificate of purchase. A certif-
1860, viii, r. 4, claims were abolished. Wharton.—Claim of conusance. In practice. An intervention by a third person in a suit, claiming that he has rightful jurisdiction of the cause which the plaintiff has commenced out of the claimant's court. N...
THE WHOLE HOUSE. In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this officer, always a member, is elected by. the house on the assembling of every new parliament. When the house is in committee on bills introduced by the government, or_in committ...
formed by Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, who concerted a scheme for the restoration of popery. The initials of these five names form the word “cabal;” hence the appellation.
201, 42 N. W. 935.—Competent evidence. That which the very nature of the thing to be proven requires, as the production of a writing where its contents are the subject of inquiry. 1 Green]. Ev. § 2; Chapman v. McAdams, 1 Lea (Tenn.) s Horbach v. S...
258. Common recoveries were abolished by the statutes 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.
tution of the state, (see the first clause of Magna Charta,) of which the sovereign is the supreme head by act of parliament, (26 Hen. VIII. c. 1,) but in what sense is not agreed. The sovereign must be a member of the church, and every subject is in...