Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English Jurisprudence, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1879 |
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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English ..., Volume 1 Benjamin Vaughan Abbott No preview available - 2008 |
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action adverse possession applied assault assigned authority bank Barb barratry bill called cause champerty child chose in action circuit civil claim common carrier common law Common Pleas constitute contract conveyance corporation Court of Appeals court of chancery court of equity Court of Session creditor crime criminal debt debtor deed defendant distinction duty England English Chancery English Courts English King's Bench equity grant heirs held House of Lords implies instrument intention issue judge judgment judicial jurisdiction jury justice land Law Reports limited lord marriage meaning ment Mozley offence owner party payment person phrase plaintiff pleading port possession proceedings punishment purpose rule sense signifies sion Stat statute Steph suit Supreme Court tenant term testator thing tion trial United usually vessel Vict vols Wharton word writ York Supreme Court
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Page 333 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 315 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed.
Page 175 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; 13. To provide and maintain a. navy; 14.
Page 376 - Good will may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds or property employed therein in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers on account of its local position or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence or punctuality or from other accidental circumstances or necessities, or even from ancient partialities...
Page 123 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 200 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 175 - States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 87 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Page 123 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result...
Page 26 - ... defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission is cured by the verdict...