Category: J

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.

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.

A kind of defensive coat-armor worn by horsemen in war; not made of solid iron, but of many plates fastened together. Some tenants were bound by their tenure to find it upon

In old English law. Small money.

In old English law. Jewels. This term was formerly more properly applied to those ornaments which women, al though married, call their own. When these jocalia are not suitable to her degree,

A workman hired by tlie day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald- ridge, 1 Cowp. 5G; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 408.

Lat. In the civil law. Select or selected judiccs or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3

In old English law. The soil where rushes grow. Co. Litt 5a; Cowell.

Lat By right; in right; by the law.

One member of a jury of matrons, (q. v.)

In the civil law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer, or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground

In old Roman law. A body of laws drawn up by Cneius Flavius, a clerk of Appius Claudius, from the materials to which he had access. It was a popularization of the