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but not from every part, as an ecumenical council. (2) One of the names of the English parliament. General court. The name given to the legislature of Massachusetts and of New Hampshire, in colonial times, and subsequently by their constitutions; so ...
reading of, or reference to, legal authorities and precedents, (such as constitutions, statutes, reported cases, and elementary treatises,) in arguments to courts, or in legal text-books, to establish or fortify the propositions advanced.
legal proceedings against him and require his appearance thereto.
v. Reed, 28 Ind. App. 629, 63 N. B. 770; Low v. Cheney, 3 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 287; People v. Ah Sam, 41 Cal. 645; In re Jetter, 78 N. Y. 601.
word adheres closely to its original meaning, as shown by its derivation, (civis, a free inhabitant of a city.) When it is designed to designate an inhabitant of the country, or one amenable to the Jaws of the nation, “subject” is the word there ...
782. See AL- DERMEN.—Board of audit. A tribunal provided by statute in some states, to adjust and settle the accounts of municipal corporations. Osterhoudt v. Rigney, 98 N. Y. 222.—Board of civil authority. In Vermont, in the case of a city this ...
Lat. In old Scotch law. A making clear; the purging or clearing (clenging) of an agsise. Skene.
241, 32 Atl. 890; In re Ho King (D. C.) 14 Fed. 725; Coffin v. Reynolds, 37 N. Y. 646; Weymouth v. Sanborn, 43 N. H. 171, 80 Am. Dec. 144; Epps v. Epps, 17 W1.
1895, § 1110; Rev. Codes N. D. 1809, § 3288; Civ. Code S. D. 1903, § 204. —Present use. One which has an immediate existence, and is at once operated upon by the statute of uses,
511; 2 Bl. Comm. 350. —King’s widow. In feudal law. A widow of the king’s tenant in chief, who was obliged to take oath in chancery that she would not marry without the king’s leave.
‘ sort of people, who, having a cord tied about such’ as sre not within, the statute of frauds. Eider vy. Warfield, 7 Har. & J. (Md.) 391.
MORTEM ALTERIUS. A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bishop, for the admission of a clerk in the place of another presented by the crown, where there had been a demise of the crown during a suit...
king may bestow his presentation on anothor.
Office or duty as the representative of his superior; an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in distant parts of the diocese. given with the commission. Pen. Code Cal. 3 1351,
i. The class of subjects in Great Britain exclusive of the royal family and the nobility. They are represented in parliament by the house of commons.
MENT. In the English parliament. The
TION AOT. An English statute, (8 Vict. c. 16,) passed in 1845, which consolidated the clauses of previous laws still remaining in force on the subject of public companies. It is considered as incorporated into all subsequent acts authorizing the exec...
Mozley & Whitley.—Public company. In English law. <A business corporation; a 80- ciety of persons joined together for carrying on some commercial or industrial undertaking.
COMPASSING. Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In English law, “compassing the king’s death” is trenson. 4 Ri.
alphabetical arrangement or some other plan of classification. Such a collection of statutes differs from a code in this, that none of the laws so compiled derives any new force or undergoes any modification in its relation to other statutes 1 pars m...
4 S. OC. 478.—Ministe~ al officer. One whase duties are purely ministerial, as distinguished from executive, legislative, or judicial functions, requiring obedience to the mandates of superiors and not involvin the exercise of judgment or discretio...
Fr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comté was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial.
word is considered peculiarly appropriate to create a trust. “It is as applicable to the subject of a trust, as nearly a synonym, a8 the English language is capable of. Trust is a confidence which one man reposes in another, and confidence is a tru...
CONFISCABLE. Capable of being confiscated or suitable for confiscation; liable to forfefture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194. 1. An opposition, conflict, or antagonism between differ- ent laws of the same state or sovereignty upo...
’ Gomsensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta. Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject-matter. Davis, 48; Branch, Princ.
ficers properly appointed under the constitution for the government of the people.
constitutes another his agent or invests the other with authority to act for him.
the constitution or fundamental law of the state. Dependent upon a constitution, or secured or regulated by a constitution; as “constitutional monarchy,” “constitutional rights.”
tion; a construction drawn from the ct#me when, and the circumstances under which, the subject-matter to be construed, as a statute or custom, originated.
nizance or jurisdiction. Termes de la Ley.