DECLARATORY PART OF A LAW
That which clearly defines rights to be observed and wrongs to be eschewed.
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That which clearly defines rights to be observed and wrongs to be eschewed.
An award of arbitrators. I Kames. Eq. 312. 313; 2 Kames Eq. 307.
In Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter.
Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which Is published six days in each week is a “daily” newspaper. Richardson v. Tobin, 45
Fatal damage; damage from fate: loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod ex fato contingit,) or an act of God, and for which bailees are not liable ; such as
To clear a legal account; to answer an accusation; to settle a controversy.
In French law. The title of the eldest sons of the kings of France. Disused since 1530.
In equity. De jure striuto, nihil possum vendicare, de ccquitate tamen, nullo modo hoc obtinet; in strict law, I can claim nothing, but in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, lib.
For hearing and determining; to hear and determine. The name of a writ, or rather commission granted to certain justices to bear and determine cases of heinous misdemeanor, trespass, riotous breach of
“For good and ill.” The Latin form of the law French phrase “Dc hicn ct de mat.” In ancient criminal pleading, this was the expression with which the prisoner put himself upon
Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a
Writ for discharging or removing a coroner. A writ by which a coroner in England may be removed from office for some cause therein assigned. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 163, 104; 1 Bl.
Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis coiulitionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first chapter of
Writ for making execution in withernam. Reg. Orig. 826. A species of capias in withernam.
Writ of forfeiture of marriage. Reg. Orig. 163, 104.
Of [his own] wrong. In the technical language of pleading, a replication de injuria is one that may be made iu an action of tort where the defendant has admitted the acts
The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, directing him to Inquire by good and lawful men whether the party charged is a lunatic or not.
A writ forbidding the justices from holding an assise in a particular case. Reg. Orig. 221.
In the civil law. An action to recover a pledge stolen. Inst. 4, 1, 14.
Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Tandects, comprising books 12-19, inclusive.