Category: I

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

A charge, preferred before a magistrate having jurisdiction, that a person named (or an unknown person) has committed a specified offense, with an offer to prove the fact, to the end that

A paper presented to a master in chancery by a party to a cause, being a written statement of the items with which the opposite party should be debited or should account

Among the Franks, Goths, Burgundlans, and other barbarous peoples, this was the name given to a sum of money paid, as satisfaction for a wrong or personal Injury, to the person harmed,

The final address made by a judge to the jury trying a case, before they make up their verdict, in which he sums up the case, and instructs the jury as to

The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society; or his status or situation, considered as a juridicial person, arising from positive law

The command of the king’s letters to perform some act; as a charge to enter heir. Also a messenger’s execution, requiring a person to obey the order of the king’s letters; as

A league or agreement between two or more independent states whereby they unite for their mutual welfare and the furtherance of their common aims. The term may apply to a union so

One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of a particular state, and by virtue of birth or naturalization within the jurisdiction, is a member of the political

The ratification by the archbishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king’s letter missive prior to the investment and consecration of the bishop by the archbishop.

A civil action is a proceeding in a court of justice in which one party, known as the “plaintiff,” demands against another party, known as the “defendant,” the enforcement or protection of

Where the property of one of several parties interested in a vessel and cargo has been voluntarily sacrificed for the common safety, (as by throwing goods overboard to lighten the vessel,) such

An act against good behavior and a just delicacy. Timmons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74; McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 144; Ardery v. State, 50 Ind.

In old public law. A declaration ; a proclamation. Indictio belli, a declaration or indiction of war. An indictment.

The act of a payee, drawee, accommodation indorser, or holder of a bill, note, check, or other negotiable instrument, in writing his name upon the back of the same, with or without

Incapable of being avoided ; fortuitous; transcending the power of hu- man care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal relations so far as to excuse from tbe