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corporation. In some other states, where the county is the unit, the town is merely one of its subdivisions, but possesses some powers of local self-government. In still other states, such subdivisions of a county are. called ‘“‘townships,” a...
53, 20 Atl. 560; Woodlief v. Duckwall, 19 Ohio Cir. Ct. R. 564.—Failure of justice. The defeat of a particular right, or the failure of reparation for a rticular wrong, from the lack of a leg remedy for the enforcement of the one or the redress of ...
or subject-matter as is embraced in a preced: ing traverse on the other side. l of actions, though his deeds taken severally do not amount to actual treason. This doctrine is not known in the United States.—High treasom, In English law. Treason ag...
to his person, property, or righté, by the immediate force and violence of the defendant. Lat. In Roman law. Offfcers who had the charge of prisons, and the execution of condemned criminals. Calvin.
L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst. 4, 14;
Lat. Ip Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictore to execute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jur.
Lat. In Roman law. That part of a prison which was under ground. Supposed to be so called ftom Servius Tullius, who built that part of the first prison in Rome. Adams, Rom. Ant. 200.
DO. Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. <A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1470.
der St. 18 Car. II. St. 1, « 5, this was a misdemeanor, and consisted in more than twenty persons signing any petition to the crown or either house of parliament for the alteration of matters established by law in church or state, unless the content...
Hdward the Confessor it was provided that a man who lodged at an inn, or at the house of another, should be considered, on the first night of his being there, a stranger, (ucuth ;) on the second night, a guest; on the third night, a member of the fam...
- ITWYHINDI. The lower order of Sax-. ons, valued at 200s. in the scale of pecuniary mulcts inflicted for crimes. Cowell.
Lat. The extreme punishment; the extremity of punishment; the punishment of death. 4 BL
an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition of his will and moral sense r...
75.—Actio commodati directa. An action by a lender against a borrower, the principal object of which is to obtain a restitution of the thing lent. Poth. Prét &A Usage, nn. 65, 68.—Actio communi dividundo. An action to procure a judicial division...
200. —Prisoner at the bar. An accused person, while on trial before the court, is so called. Prisoner of war. One who has been captured jn war while fighting in the army of the public enemy.
a friend to share the produce. It was scarce ly permitted to him (Justinian says) to have even his wife with him on the land; and he could not let or sell, the right being strictly personal to himself. Brown. fat. Both; each “The justices, being i...
Lat. In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court. Calvin.
(N. Y¥.) 649: Smith v. Floyd, 18 Barb. (N. Y.) 527. —Common because of vicinage is where the inhabitants of two townships which lie contizuous to each other have usually intercommoned with one another, the beasts of the one straying mutually into ...
known,” that is, one which leaves open either the question whether any crime was committed ‘or the identity of the criminal.—Partial verdict. In criminal law, a verdict by which the jury acquit the defendant as to a part of tne accusation and f...
Lat. Against. In the title of a ‘cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word “versys,” then the defendant’s name. Thus, “Fletcher versus Peck,’ or “Metcher against Peck.” The word is commonly abbreviated “vs....
was passed for the punishment of 112, passed to abolish satisfied outstanding terms of years in land. By this act, terms which shall henceforth become attendant upon the inheritance, either by express declaration or construction of law, are to cease...
718; State v. Parsons, 124 Mo. 436, 27 S. W. 1102, 46 Am.
(Ala.) 27.—Criminal prosecution. An action or provceuine instituted in a proper court on behalf of the public. for the purpose of securing the conviction and punishment of one accused of crime. Warger vy. Thomas, 44 Pa. 128, 84 Am. Dec. 420:
1 Watts (Pa.) 351.—-Appearance day. The day for appearing; that on which the parties are bound to come into court. Cruger v. McCracken (Tex. Civ. App.) 26 S. W. 282.—Appearanee docket. <A docket kept by the clerk of the court, in which appearance...
2, c. 46; 2 Bl. Comm. 34; 3 BI. 2, c. 30; Reg. Orig. 68, 69; 3 BI. 2 (18 Edw. I. c. 18) either upon a judgment for a debt or damages or upon the forfeiture of a recognizance taken in the King’s court. It is so called because it is in the choice o...
satisfaction for the offense; a weregild, or wergild.
(Pa.) 234.—Liberty of the press. The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives and for justifiable ends. People vy. Croswell, 3 Johns. Cas. 394. The right freely to publish whatever the citizen may please, and to be protected against ...
fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a_beneficed
a mFolice' court. The name of a kind of in- *feridr court in several :of the states, which has ‘a summary jurisdiction over minor offenses and ‘misdemeanors of smiall consequence, and the powers of a committing magistrate in respect to more serio...