Category: J

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.

A commercial or maritime enterprise undertaken by several persons jointly; a limited partnership,

A Norman French term signifying “grandfather.” It is also spelled “aieul” and “ayle.” Kelham.

Equity follows the law. Gilb. 1S6.

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

A false boasting; a false claim; assertions repeated to the prejudice of another’s right. The species of defamation or disparagement of another’s title to real estate known at common law as “slander

In Scotch law. Jailer or gaoler. 1 I’ltc. Criin. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33.

In old English law. A game of hazard. Keg. Orig. 200.

Lat. In the civil law. To order, direct, or command. Calvin. The word jubeo, (I order.) iu a will, was called a “word of direction.” as distinguished from “precatory words.” Cod. 6,

Belonging to the office of a judge; as judicial authority. Relating to or connected with the administration of justice; as a judicial officer. Having the character of judgment or formal legal procedure;

In old English law. To join the duelluin; to engage iu the combat. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

Lat Of right; of law.

The right of renunciation; the right of an heir, under the Roman law, to renounce or decline the inheritance, as, for example, where his acceptance, in consequence of the necessity of paying

In English law. The right of the crown, or to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comm. 434.

In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another’s land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract, fol. 222