TION
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. A personal right of action dies with the person... Noy, Max. 14.
AGGREGATIO MENTIUM. The meeting of minds. The moment when a contract is.complete. A supposed derivation of the word “agreement.”
Synonyms. This term is to be distinguished from its synonyms “change” and “amend.” To change may import the substitution of an entirely different thing, while to alter is to operate upon a subject-matter which continues objectively the same while modified in some par ticular. If a check is raised, in respect to its amount, it is altered; if a new check is put in its place, it is changed. To “amend” implies that the modification made in the subject improves it, which is not necessarily the case with an alteration. An amendment always involves an alteration, but an alteration co not always amend.
CONCORD. In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforclant (or he who keeps the other out of possession) acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of complainant; and, from the acknowledgment or admission of right thus made, the party who levies the fine is called the “cognizor,” and the person to whom it is levied the “cognizee.” 2 Bl. Comm. 350. .
EXPECT. To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely to happen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Hamlin, 67 Kan. 476, 73 Pac. 58.
cligious houses. Places set apart for pious uses; such as monasteries, churches, hospitals, and all other pace where charity was extended to the relief of the poor and or phans, or for the use or exercise of religion. ous impostors. In English law. Those who falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgment; punishable with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. 4 Broom & H. Comm. %41.—RelHgious liberty. See LIBERTY. ~Religious men. Such as entered into some monastery or convent. In old English deeds, the: vendee was often restrained from alienin to “Jews or religious men” lest the lands shoul fall into mortmain. Religious men were civilly dead. Blount.—Religious society.: A body of persons associated together for the purpose of maintaining religious worship. A church and society are often united in maintaining worship, and in such cases the society commonly owns the property, and makes the pecuniary contract with the minister. But, in many instances, societies exist without a church, and churches without a society. Silsby v. Barlow, i6 Gray (Mass.) 8830; Weld v. May. 9 Cush. (Mass.) 188; Hebrew Free School Ass'n v. New ork, Hun (N. Y.) 449.—Religious usc.
AGGREGATIO MENTIUM. The meeting of minds. The moment when a contract is.complete. A supposed derivation of the word “agreement.”
Synonyms. This term is to be distinguished from its synonyms “change” and “amend.” To change may import the substitution of an entirely different thing, while to alter is to operate upon a subject-matter which continues objectively the same while modified in some par ticular. If a check is raised, in respect to its amount, it is altered; if a new check is put in its place, it is changed. To “amend” implies that the modification made in the subject improves it, which is not necessarily the case with an alteration. An amendment always involves an alteration, but an alteration co not always amend.
CONCORD. In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforclant (or he who keeps the other out of possession) acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of complainant; and, from the acknowledgment or admission of right thus made, the party who levies the fine is called the “cognizor,” and the person to whom it is levied the “cognizee.” 2 Bl. Comm. 350. .
EXPECT. To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely to happen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Hamlin, 67 Kan. 476, 73 Pac. 58.
cligious houses. Places set apart for pious uses; such as monasteries, churches, hospitals, and all other pace where charity was extended to the relief of the poor and or phans, or for the use or exercise of religion. ous impostors. In English law. Those who falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgment; punishable with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. 4 Broom & H. Comm. %41.—RelHgious liberty. See LIBERTY. ~Religious men. Such as entered into some monastery or convent. In old English deeds, the: vendee was often restrained from alienin to “Jews or religious men” lest the lands shoul fall into mortmain. Religious men were civilly dead. Blount.—Religious society.: A body of persons associated together for the purpose of maintaining religious worship. A church and society are often united in maintaining worship, and in such cases the society commonly owns the property, and makes the pecuniary contract with the minister. But, in many instances, societies exist without a church, and churches without a society. Silsby v. Barlow, i6 Gray (Mass.) 8830; Weld v. May. 9 Cush. (Mass.) 188; Hebrew Free School Ass'n v. New ork, Hun (N. Y.) 449.—Religious usc.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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