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ceeding taken by the adverse party is insuf-. ficient. .Peck v. Osteen, 37 Fla. 427, 20 South.. 549; Arnold v. Slaughter, 86 W. Va. 589, 15 8. EB. 250. céeding the proper or reasonable HNmit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga. 130, 32 S. E...
A writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the church, should be sought after, retaken, and imprisoned again...
' tué que use into a legal estate of the same consists in putting the sentence of the law in force. $3 Bi. Comm. 412. The carrying into effect of the sentence or judgment of a court. U.S. v. Nourse, 9 Pet. 28, 9 I. Ed. 31;
Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or cause him to be demanded, crigt faciat,) from county court to county court, until he be outlawed; or, if he appear, ...
Scotch law. A ‘warrant granted at the suit offa prisoner for citing witnesses jn his own defense. 3
Such as render a delict or crime less aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or tend to palliate or lessen its guilt. Such circumstances may or-
tien of a person or.thing in a written roe ment. Inst. 2, 20, 30. feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion; the deceitful semblance of a fact.-- False imprisonment. ‘See IMPRISONMENT. Fals...
Fraudulent subornation or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. It is committed (1) by words, as when a witness swears falsely; (2) by writing, as when a person antedates a contract; (3)...
851; Armijo v. Abeytia, 5 N. M. 533, 25 1, 53 Cc. C. A. 513; Zimmerer v. Fremont Nat. Bank, 59 Neb. 661, 81 N. W. 849; 201; Sharp v. Curtiss, 15 Conn. 526; Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst. {Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818, 59; Morgan’s LL & T....
196; Griffith v. State, 90 Ala. 583, 8 South. 812; Spear v. Hiles, 67 Wis. 861, 30 1,007. See also PERILS OF THE SEa. 15; In re Scott, 21 Fed. Cas. 808; 1,310. 321; Goldenberg v. Murphy, 108 424—Domestic commerce. Commerce carried on wholly wi...
or commission of a crime, but only: for the purpose of discovering their plans and confeder ates and securing evidence against them. See
his own Hfe, or who commits some unlawful or malicious act which results in his own death. Hale, P. C. 411; 4 Bl. Comm. 189;
tinguished from a “misdemeanor,”..upon conviction for which no forfeiture followed. All indictable offenses are either felonies or misdemeanors, but a material part of the distinction is taken away by St. 33 & 34 Viet. c, 23, which abolishes forf...
which the lands in question become, or are acknowledged to be, the right of one of the parties. 2 Bl. Comm. 349; Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258; First Nat. Bank v. convicted of crime or misdemeanor. Lancaster v. Richardson, 4 Lans. (N. ...
obsolete writ which lay for a person who, upon conviction by jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his lands and goods redelivered to him, on obtaining favor of a sum of money, etc. Re...
DO. An old writ that lay for the release of one imprisoned for a redisselsin, on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222.
’ FLIGHT. In criminal law. The act of one under accusation, who evades the law by voluntarily withdrawing himself. It is presumptive evidence of guilt. U. S. v.
‘-FOOTGELD. In the forest law. An »amercement for not cutting out the ball or cutting off the claws of a dog's.feet, (expeditating him.) To be quit of footgeld is to have the privilege of keeping dogs in the forest unlasced without punishment or c...
The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recover possession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases does not involve title, but is confined to the actual and peaceable possession of the plain...
Loirdis assesouris forsaidis.” chandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; or the dissuading persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or persuading them to enhance the pri...
law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 50; Bell.
in the owner of lands, tenements, or heredita: ments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured a8 a recy ompense for the wrong which he alone, or the public together with himself, hath sustained. 2 Bl. Comm. 267.. W...
Lat. To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act. To confiscate.
Fr. To fork. This was a method of delaying an action anciently resorted to by defendants when two of them were joined in the suit. Instead of appearing together, each would appear in turn and
dom of civil rights enjoyed by freemen. It was liable to forfeiture on conviction of treason or an infamous crime. McCafferty v. Guyer, 59
Lat. He has made flight; he fled. A clause inserted in an inquisition, in old English law, meaning that a person indicted for treason or felony had fled. The effect of this is to make the party forfeit his goods absolutely, and the profits of his lan...
in Scotch practice. To outlaw, by the sentence of a court; to outlaw for non-appearance in a criminal] case. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 350.
H prevents marriage from being contracted, because consent is needed. Dig. 23, 2, 16, 2; 1 Ves. & B. 140; 1 Bl. Comm. 439; Wightman v. Wightman, 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 343, 845. . ing any one in the presence of witnesses in due form, the thing stolen ...
INTERN. To restrict or shut up a pergon, as a political prisoner, within a limited territory.
372, 29 8S. BE. 44, 40 L. R. A. 244; Bishop v. Chase, 156 Mo. 158, 56 S. W. .1080, 79 Am. St. Rep. §15. 1882, § 4375. 218; Machias River Co. v. Pope, 35 Me. 22; Cobb County v. Adams, 68 Ga. 51; 1882, § 1797. —Bastard eigne. In old English law...