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(He has confessed the action.) A defendant’s written confession of an action brought against him, to which he has no available defense. It is usually upon condition that he shall be allowed: a certain time for the payment of the debt or damages, an...
210, 6 Pac. 816; Keiser v. Smith, 71 243; Halbert v. Alford (Tex.) 16 8S. W. 814. 285, 21 Pac. 483; Savannah v. Kelly, 108 U. 8. 184, 2 Sup. Ct. 468, 27 L. Ed. 696; 412; St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co. v. 486.—Nihil est. There is nothing. A f...
108, 184. No right to the spoil vests in the piratical captors; no right is derivable from them to any recaptors in prejudice of the original owners. 2 Wood. Lect. 428. 76. A knight who forcibly assaulted and detained one of the king’s subjects ti...
es, to revise the sentence of the court of dele gates. 3 Bil. Comm. 67. ‘Now out of use, the privy council] being substituted for the court of execute a commission of bankruptcy, (9. v. ame
COMMITMENT. In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. ;
Lat. In the civil law. Compensation, or set-off. A proceeding re sembling a set-off in the common law, being a claim on the part of the defendant to have an amount due to him from the plaintiff deducted from his demand. Dig. 16, 2; Inst. 4, 6, 30, 39...
power of eminent domain, this term means a payment in money. Any benefit to the re, maining property of the owner, arising from public works for which a part has been taken, cannot be considered as compensation. given to his story. The formér denot...
Lat. A council. Also argument in a cause, or the sitting of the court to hear argument; a day allowed to a defendant to present his argument; an imparlance.
Conclusion also denotes a bar or estoppel; the consequence, as respects the individual, — of a judgment upon the subject-matter, or of his confession of a matter or thing which the law thenceforth forbids him to deny. —Conclusion against the form...
CONDEMN. To find or adjudge guilty. 8 Leon. 68. To adjudge or sentence. 8 BI.
eguity practice. An order which the court of chancery makes when the defendant floes not file an answer, that the plaintiff may take such a decree as the case made by his bill warrants. ,
Lat Confirmation of the charters. A _ statute passed in the 25 Edw. I., whereby the Great Charter is declared to be allowed as the common law; all judgments contrary to it are declared void; copies of it are ordered to be sent to all cathedral church...
261, 2 Atl. 325, 5 Atl. 682: Merrill v. 443. 479: Fuller v. Bradley, 25 Pa. 120; Mc- 584; Grame v. Assur. Soc., 112 U. S. 273, 5 Sup. Ct. 150, 28 L. Ed. 716; Spruill v. Insurance Co., 46 N. QO. 127. 487; Woods vy. Rankin, 2 Heisk. (Tenn.) 46; U. ...
damage, loss, or injury as does not flow di- . Fectly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act. Swain v. Copper Co., 111 Tenn. 430, 78 S. W. 93; Pearson v. Spartanburg County, 51 S. C. 4...
1387; 8 Phillim. Ecc. Law, 586. 254.—Liberty of the rules. A privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons within certain limits, and there reside.
cuse another of a crime punishable by law; or wrongfully to injure or prejudice a third ‘per: son, or any body of men, in any manner; or to commit any offense punishable by law; or to do any act with intent to prevent the course of justice; or to e...
(Called, also, “Marshal.’”) His office consisted in the care of the common peace of the realm in deeds of a and matters of war. Lamb. Const. 4.—Constable of Scotland. An officer who was formerly entitled to command all the king’s armies in ...
mon law. Bract. fol. 48b—Contra legem terrse. Against the law of the land.—Oontra omnes gentes. Against all people. Formal words in old covenants of warranty. Fieta, lib. 3, ec 14, § 11—Contra pacem. Against the eace. A phrase used in the Lati...
phrase of which the parts are expressly inconsistent, as, €. g., “an innocent murder ;” “a fee-simple for life.”
CONTRAVENTION. In French law. An act which violates the law, a treaty, or an agreement which the party has made. That infraction of the law punished by a fine which does not exceed fifteen francs and by an imprisonment not exceeding three days. Pen. ...
tempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. III. c.-127, § 2, and in lieu thereof, where a lawful citation or sentence has not been obeyed, the judge shall have power, after a certain period, to pronounce spch person contumacious and in...
CONVIOT, v. To condemn after judicial investigation; to find a man gullty of a criminal charge. The word was formerly used also in the sense of finding against the defendant in a civil case. State v. Ellsworth, 181 N. C. 773, 42 S. E. 699, 92 Am. St...
8. 441. hatever difficulty may be experienced in giving to those terms a definition which will embrace every permissible exertion of power affecting private rights, and exclude such as is forbidden, there can be no doubt of their meaning when applie...
forfeit one’s skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Oorium rcedimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton.
555.—Involuntary servitude. The condition of one who is compelled by force, coercion, or imprison- Taent, and against his will, to labor for another, whether he is paid or not. See State
when the court has jurisdiction of the cause by reason of the fact that some of the defendants are residents of the county or found therein. White v. Lea, 9 Lea (Tenn.) 450.
MILITARY, was a court not of record, held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England. It had jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, in deeds of arms and war, armorial bearings,: questions of precedence, ete., and as a court of honor. ...
SESSIONS OF THE PEACE. In Ameriean law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in New Jersey.
New York) toa court of general original jurisdiction in criminal cases..