VILLAGE
Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not constitutes a village. Hebert v.
Search Results for: Village
Torts I Outline
I. Tort Liability A. Intentionally Inflicted Injuries 1. Purpose or knowledge (See Garrat v. Dailey, boy moving chair case) 2. An individual doesn’t have to intend to cause harm to be liable
Nonprofit Corporate Law
Nonprofit Corporate Law, Governance and Management Outline Ellen Aprill, Fall 2009 I. Introductory materials A. Some important distinctions Tax-exempt vs. nonprofit Nonprofit refers to state corporate law Tax-exempt usu refers to federal
Comparative Constitutional Law
D – 212-243 E – 274- 354 F – 365- 379, 379-384 G – 464-498, Skim 497-551 B/c of pub date of book, doesn’t include most recent US Supr Ct decision: STENBERG
GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE
A marriage celebrated at Gretna, iu Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,)iu Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consentalone, without any other formality. When
HAMLET
A small village; a part or member of a vill. It is the diminutive of “ham,” avillage. Cowell. See Rex. v. Morris, 4 Term, 552.
STREET
An urban way or thoroughfare ; a road or public way in a city, towu, or village, generally paved, aud lined or intended to be lined by houses on each side. See
TOWN
In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several species of cities, boroughs, and common towns. I Bl. Comm. 114. In American
WICK
Sax. A village, town, or district. Hence, in composition, the territory overwhich a given jurisdiction extends. Thus, “bailiwick” is the territorial jurisdiction of abailiff or sheriff or constable. “Sheriffwick” was also used
PYKE, PAIK
In Hindu law. A foot- passenger ; a person employed as a night- watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.
PUEBLO
In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, without distinction. A town, township, or municipality. White, New Itecop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, I 4. This term
COMMOTION
A “civil commotion” Is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- COMMUNE 229 COMMUNIS OPINIO belllon where there is a usurped power. 2 Marsh.
CENTENI
The principal inhabitants of a ccntena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name
BEREWICHA, OR BEREWTCA
In old English law. A term used in Domesday for a village or hamlet belonging to some town or manor.
CIUDADES
Sp. In Spanish law, cities; distinguished from towns (pueblos) and villages (villas.) Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 537.
CACICAZGOS
In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Sehm. Civil Law, 309.
BOURG
In old French law. An assemblage of houses surrounded with walls; a fortified town or village. In old English law. A borough, a village.
QUASI CORPORATIONS
Organizations resembling corporations; municipal societies or similar bodies which, though not true corporations in all respects, are yet recognized, by statutes or immemorial usage, as persons or aggregate corporations, with precise duties
CANTRED
A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.
CORVEET IN FRENCH LAW
Gratuitous labor exacted from the villages or communities, especially for repairing roads, constructing bridges, etc. State v. Covington, 125 N. C. 641, 34 S. E. 272.
