INCHOATE
Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties.
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Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties.
The return in money from one’s business, labor, or capital invested; gains,profit, or private revenue. Braun’s Appeal, 105 Pa. 415; People v. Davenport, 30 llun (N.Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 109 N.
An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.
One which is usable or used only at times, and not continuously. Eaton v. Railroad Co., 51 N. H. 504, 12 Am.Rep. 147.
Lat. In the civil law. A pledge; a surety; bail or surety in a criminal proceeding or civil action. Calvin.
The English highway U acts provide that in every parish forming partof a highway district there shall annually be elected one or more waywardens. Thewaywardens so elected, aud the justicesVfor the county
A person employed in a public office, or as an officer of a court, whose duty is to keep records or accounts.
A crime which entails in- famv upon one who has committed it. Butler v. Wentworth, 84 Me. 25. 24 Atl. 456, 17 L. R. A. 764. The term “infamous”
A person employed by a merchant, or in a mercantile establishment, as a salesman, book-keeper, accountant, amanuensis, etc., invested with more or less authority in the administration of some branch or department
Such as is carried on between individuals within the same state, or between different parts of the same state. Lehigh Val. Ii. Co. v. Pennsylvania. 145 U. S. 192. 12 Sup. Ct.
Commerce between states or nations entirely foreign to each other. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Tennessee R. R. Com’n (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701
In the Roman law. The iEdilitian Edict; an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales, the execution of which belonged to the curule aediles. Dig. 21, 1. See Cod. 4, 58.
An officer whose principal duties are to supply an army with provisions and stores.
Lat. Being sick or indisposed. A term used in some of the older reports. “Holt wgroto.” 11 Mod. 179.
A portion of a legislative body, comprising one or more members, who are charged with the duty of examining some matter specially referred to them by the house, or of deliberating upon
Equity is a certain perfect reason, which interprets and amends the written law, comprehended in no writing, but consisting in right reason alone. Co. Litt 246.
The production of a merchant’s books, by delivering them either to a person designated by the court, or to his adversary, to be examined in all their parts, and as shall be
Complete age ; full age ; the age of twenty-live. Dig. 4, 4, 32; Id. 22, 3, 25, 1.
The conversion of the right to receive a variable or periodical payment into the right to receive a fixed or gross payment. Commutation may be effected by private agreement, but it is
A caveat is a formal written notice given to the officers of the patent-office, requiring them to refuse letters patent on a particular invention or device to any other person, until the