IN ARBITRIUM JUDICIS
At the pleasure of the judge.
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At the pleasure of the judge.
Shared in respect to title, use, or enjoyment, without apportionmentor division into individual parts; held by several for the equal advantage, use. or enjoymentof all. See Ilewit v. Jewell, 59 Iowa, 37,
In double. Dumna in du- plo, double damages. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10,
In fee. Bract, fol. 207; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 04,
In the same terms. 9 East, 487.
In the same kind, class, or genus. A loan is returned “in kind” when notthe identical article, but one corresponding and equivalent to it, is given to the lender.See IN GENEUE.
Property owned by religious societies was said to be held in?mortua maim, or in mortmain, since religious men were civiliter mortui. 1 Bl. Comm.479; Tayl. Gloss.
In the worst part; on the worst side. Latch, 159, 160.
In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action
In terms of determination; exactly in point. 11 Coke, 406. In express or determinateterms. 1 Leon. 93.
In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.
Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in anaction at law, instead of being recited at large on the Issue-roll, were set out merely bytheir commencements, this
Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other.so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the one implies theabrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking
An abbreviation for “juriscon- sultus,” one learned in the law; a jurisconsult
A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whomthe law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. Lun. 2. See INSANITY.
Not authorized by law; Illicit ; unlawful; contrary to law.Sometimes this term means merely that which lacks authority of or support from law;but more frequently it imports a violation. Etymo- logicaily, the
The act of mixing the specie with an alloy below the standard of sterling. 1 Hale, P. C. 102.
An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. Long v. Converse, 91 U. S. 113, 23 LEd. 233; Ex parte Levy,
See DIRECTORY.
Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of ahouse. Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.)Whatever may supply wants; particularly applied to tools, utensils, vessels,instruments of labor; as,
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