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Neb

Categories: Criminal Law

Definition (1910 Edition)

444.

135, 78 N. W. 384, 46 L. R. A. 244.

858, 6 N. W. 427; Attrill v. Patterson,

526, 62 N. W.. 859.

807, 80 N. W. 295.—Natural equity. A term sometimes employed in works on jurisprudence, possessing no very precise meaning, but used as equivalent to justice, honesty, or: morality in business relations, or man’s innate sense of right dealing and fair play. Inasmuch as equity, as now administered, is a complex system of rules, doctrines, and precedents, and possesses, within the range of its own fixed rinciples, but little more elasticity than the aw, the term “natural cheeks may be understood to denote, in a general way, that which strikes the ordinary conscience and sense of justice as being fair, right, and equitable, in advance of the question whether the technical jupepencenee of the chancery courts would go regard it.

218, 54 N. W. 258, 19 L. R. A. 316; State v. California Min. Co., 13 Nev. 214.—Judicial committee of the privy council. In English law. A tribunal composed of members of the privy council, being judges or retired judges, which acts as the king’s adviser in ‘matters of law referred to it, and exercises a certain appellate jurisdiction, chiefly in ecclesiastical} causes, though its power in this t was curtailed by the judicature act of 1873.—Jue dicial confession. In the law of evidence. A confession of guilt, made by a prisoner before a magistrate, or in court, in the due course of legal proceedings. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 216;

676, 63 N. W. 955, 34 L. R. A. 321; Standard Bewing Mach, Co. v. Leslie, 118 Fed. 559. 55 C. C. A. 3823; McKinney y. State, 117

814, 91 N. W. 874, 59 L. R. A. 915; Reid v. Hood, 2 Nott & McC. (8S. C.) 169, 10 Am.

682, 48 N. W. 739; People v. Board of

715, 70 N. W. 237.

547, 58 N. W. 205; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U. S. 195, 26 L. Ed. 377; American

552, 48 N. W. 393; Whitlock v. State, 30

815, 47 N. W. 23A.—Normal school. A training school for teachers; one in which instruction is given in the theory and practice of teaching; particularly, in the system of schools generally established throughout the United States, a school for the training and instruction of those who are already teachers in the public schools or those who desire and expect

(Unof.) 852, 96 N. W. 628; Connecticut

371, 78 N. W. 686; Rokes v. Amazon

149, 1 N. W. 978.

249, 82 N. W. 866.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain. UK commentary and modern updates are original additions. This entry is for educational reference only and does not constitute legal advice.