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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.

A throwing goods overboard to lighten or save tlie vessel, in which case the goods so sacrificed are a proper subject for general average. Dig. 14, 2, “de lege Illiodia de Jactu.”

I.. Fr. I have failed; I am in error. An error or oversight in pleading. Certain statutes are called “statutes of amendments and jeofailes” because, where a pleader perceives any slip in

Joining or coupling together; uniting two or more constituents or ele- ments in one; uniting with another person in some legal step or proceeding.

The religion and rites of the Jews. Du Cange. A quarter set apart for residence of Jews. A usurious rate of interest. 1 Mon. Angl. S39; 2 Mon. Angl. 10,665. Sex marcus

adj. Pertaining or relating to the courts of justice, to the judicial department of government, or to the administration of justice.

Younger. This has been held to be no part of a man’s name, but an addition by use, and a convenient distinction between a father and son of the same name. Cobb

Lat Of right; of 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

In Roman law. The right of Latium or of the Latins. The principal privilege of the Latins seems to have been the use of their own laws, and their not being subject

n the civil law. The right of postliminy; the right or claim of a person who had been restored to the possession of a thing, or to a former condition. to be