TREBUCKET
jury, actually tripled in amount. The usual practice has been for the jury to find the single amount of the damages, and for the court, on motion, to order that amount to be trebled. 2 Tidd, Pr. 893, 894.
Category: Torts
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UNLIQUIDATED
UNLIQUIDATED. Not ascertained in amount; not determined; remaining unassessed or unsettled; as unliquidated damages. See DAMAGES.
UTI FRUI
Lat. In the civil law. To have the full use and enjoyment of a thing, without damage to its substance. Calvin.
VINDICATORY PARTS OF LAWS
The sanction of the laws, whereby it is signified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1
VOUCHEE
nor to any compensation for injuries sustained by him in performing what he has undertaken. Sweet. Also one who officiously pays the debt of another. See Irvine v. Angus, 93 Ked. 633, 85 C. OG A. 501; Arnold v. Green, 116 N. Y. 506, 23 N. E. 1; Benne...
W. 297, 41 L. R. A. 278, 66 Am. St. Rep
770. A mized nuisance is of the kind last desrribed: that is, it is one which is both public and private in its effects,—public because it injures many persons or all tl the community, and private in that it also produces special injuries to Pe rig...
Walter, 64 Pa
283; Humphreys v. Sutcliffe, 192 Pa. 336, 48 Atl. 954, 73 Am. St. Rep. 819; Kline v. Hibbard, 80 Hun, 50, 20 N. Y. Supp. —Malicious act. <A wrongful act intentionally done without Jegal justification or excuse; an unlawful act done wilfully or purp...
WARRANT, n»
1.A writ or precept from a cumpetent authority in pursuance of law, directing the doing of an act, and addressed to an officer or person competent to do the act, and affording him protection from damage, if he does it. People v. Wood, 71 ON. Y¥. 376...
Wing. Max
238. p. 110, max. 38. p. 705, max. 189. p. 620, max. 161. p. 497, max. 135. p. 411, max. 108; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 42. - p. 673, max. 175. ; p. 575, max. 148; Finch, Law, b. 1, c 3, no. 63. p. 382, max. 101; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 8, no....
WRONGFULLY INTENDING
ciently clerks in the office of the secretary of state, by whom writs were prepared and issued under the royal signet or seal; and, when the signet became employed in judicial proceedings, they obtained a monopoly of the privileges of acting as agent...