COMPRINT
A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton. .
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A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton. .
Process to compel the attendance in court of a person wanted there as a witness or otherwise; including not only the ordinary subpoena, but also a warrant of arrest or attachment if
I have granted. At common law, in a feoffment or estate of inheritance, this word does not imply a warranty ; it only creates a covenant in a lease for years. Co.
The proper form for the conclusion of an indictment for an offense created by statute is the technical phrase “against the form of the statute in such case made and provided;” or,
In the civil law. A Joint or co-curator, or guardian.
An action which lay in favor of a person who had given or promised a thing without consideration, (causa.) Dig. 12, 7; Cod. 4, 9.
In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil
An enlarging confirmation; one which enlarges a rightful estate. Shep. Touch. 311.
See BILL OF CONFORMITY.
An ancient measure containing about a gallon and a pint. Cowell
In old English law. One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator ; a conspirator.
The moral sense; the faculty of judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right and wrong; particularly applied to one’s perception and judgment of the moral qualities of his
The ancient name for what is now known as “constructive” contempt of court. Ex parte Wright, 65 Ind. SOS. See CONTEMPT.
Being composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with “including;” for the latter, when used in connection with a number of specified objects, always implies that there may be
An ancient writ that lay against conspirators. Reg. Orig. 134; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 114.
A court of equity or of common law, as the case may be, is called the court of construction with regard to wills, as opposed to the court of probate, whose duty
Co. Litt. 336. Custom takes away the common law. Consuetudo volentes ducit, lex nolen- tes trakit. Custom leads the willing, law compels [drags] the unwilling. Jenk. Cent. 274.
Whatever obstructs or tends to obstruct the due course of proceeding of either house, or grossly reflects on the character of a member of either house, or imputes to him what it
The first national legislative assembly in the United States, which met in 1774. in pursuance of a recommendation made by Massachusetts and adopted by the other colonies. In this congress all the
In criminal pleading. (Contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.) The usual conclusion of every indictment, etc., brought for an offense created by statute