LOCUS
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
Lat. A place; the place where a thing is done. .
109.—Loous im guo. The place in which. The place in which the cause of action arose, or where anything is alleged, in pleadings, to have been done. The phrase is most frequently used in actions of trespass quare clausum frojil Lecus partitus. In old English law. A place divided. A division made between two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fileta, lib. 4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell.Locus ponitentis. A place for repentance; an opportunity for changing one’s mind; a chance to withdraw from a contemplated bargain or contract before it results in a definite contractual liability. Also used of a chance afforded to a person, by the circumstances, of relinquishing the ‘intention which he has formed to commit a crime, before the perpetration thereof.—Locus publicus. In the civil law. A public place. Dig. 43, 8, 1;
109.—Loous im guo. The place in which. The place in which the cause of action arose, or where anything is alleged, in pleadings, to have been done. The phrase is most frequently used in actions of trespass quare clausum frojil Lecus partitus. In old English law. A place divided. A division made between two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fileta, lib. 4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell.Locus ponitentis. A place for repentance; an opportunity for changing one’s mind; a chance to withdraw from a contemplated bargain or contract before it results in a definite contractual liability. Also used of a chance afforded to a person, by the circumstances, of relinquishing the ‘intention which he has formed to commit a crime, before the perpetration thereof.—Locus publicus. In the civil law. A public place. Dig. 43, 8, 1;
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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