A Dictionary of Law: Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern : Including the Principal Terms of International, Constitutional, and Commercial Law : with a Collection of Legal Maxims and Numerous Select Titles from the Civil Law and Other Foreign SystemsThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1991 - 1253 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
action ancient applied bill Blount Bract Brev called Calvin cause chancery charge church Civil Code civil law Coke Comm common law contract conveyance corporation court court of chancery Cowell creditor crime criminal criminal law debt debtor deed defendant denote distinguished Du Cange duty ecclesiastical law England equity execution fact feudal law Fitzh Fleta fraud French law given glish glish law granted heir Inst issue judge judgment judicial jurisdiction jury justice Kent king's land Litt lord Mackeld marriage matter means ment offense officer old English law Orig party payment person phrase plaintiff plea pleading possession practice Real Prop rent Roman law Saxon law Scotch law seisin sense sheriff signifies Spanish law species Spelman statute Steph suit tenant term thing tion Vict Wharton word writ
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Página 284 - A cause of action arising out of the contract or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action.
Página 301 - A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed, upon conviction, either of the following punishments: 1. Death; 2. Imprisonment; 3. Fine: 4. Removal from office; or, 5. Disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit in this state.
Página 255 - Any benefit conferred, or agreed to be conferred, upon the promisor, by any other person, to which the promisor is not lawfully entitled, or any prejudice suffered, or agreed to be suffered, by such person, other than such as he is at the time of consent lawfully bound to suffer, as an inducement to the promisor, is a good consideration for a promise.
Página 27 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice by which one party prosecutes another for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
Página 301 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Página 279 - ... strictly speaking, public corporations are such only as are founded by the government for public purposes, where the whole interests belong also to the government. If, therefore, the foundation be private, though under the charter of the government, the corporation is private, however extensive the uses may be to which it is devoted, either by the bounty of the founder, or the nature and objects of the institution.
Página 207 - The distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished; and there shall be in this state, hereafter, but one form of action, for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress of private wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil action.
Página 304 - Whenever the defendant seeks affirmative relief against any party, relating to or depending upon the contract, transaction, matter, happening or accident upon which the action is brought, or affecting the property to which the action relates...
Página 83 - A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, or watercourse, or of a passage for light, air, or heat from or across the land of another.
Página 225 - Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities...