Category: J

The weight of a past offense is never increased by a subsequent fact. Bacon.

Lawful age; the age of twenty-five. Dig. 3. 5, 27. pr.; Id. 26, 2. 32. 2; Id. 27, 7, 1, pr.

In parliamentary practice, a joint ballot is an election or vote by ballot participated in by the members of both houses of a legislative assembly sitting together as one body, the result

In English law. Joint- stock companies for the purpose of banking. They are regulated, according to the date of their incorporation, by charter, or by 7 Geo. IV. c. 46; 7 &

A barrister under the rank of queen’s counsel. Also the junior of two counsel employed on the same side in a case. Mozley & Whitley.

A joint committee of a legislative body comprising two chambers is a committee consisting of representatives of each of the two houses, meeting and acting together as one committee.

A joint contract is one made by two or more promisors, who are jointly bound to fulfill its obligations, or made to two or more promisees, who are jointly entitled to require

This differs from a joint-stock company in being regularly incorporated, instead of being a mere partnership, but resembles it in having a capital divided into shares of stock. Most business corporations (as

The younger of the counsel employed on the same side of a case, or the one lower in standing or rank, or who is entrusted with the less important parts of the

Persons jointly entitled to require satisfaction of the same debt or demand.

In old English and feudal law. Leg-armor. Blount.

A term descriptive of goods which, by the act of the owner, have been voluntarily cast overboard from a vessel, in a storm or other emergency, to lighten the ship. 1 C.

In old English law. Land where rushes grow. Co. Litt. 5a.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. To judge; to decide or determine judicially; to give judgment or sentence.

In old records. A cutthroat or murderer. Cowell.

he clause written at the foot of an affidavit, stating when, where, and be- fore whom such affidavit was sworn. See U. S. v. McDermott. 140 U. S. 151, 11 Sup. Ct.

One who is versed or skilled in law; answering to the Latin “jurisper- itus,” (q. v.) One who is skilled in the civil law, or law of nations. The term is now

In old English law. The right of bench. The right or privilege of having an elevated and separate scat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king’s judges, who hence were said

The right of disposing of realty by will. Du Cange.

In Roman law. The right to use or display pictures or statutes of ancestors; somewhat analogous to the right in English law, to bear a coat of arms.