PERSONATE
In criminal law. To assume the person (character) of another, without his consent or knowledge, in order to deceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain
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In criminal law. To assume the person (character) of another, without his consent or knowledge, in order to deceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain
Lat In old English law. A demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 1006.
An obsolete term for an enormous crime.
In the ancient rorest laws. Au arrow which had a round knob a little above the head, to hinder it from going far into the mark. Cowell.
In criminal law. A robbery or forcible depredation on the high seas, without lawful authority, done animo fur- audi, in the spirit and intention of universal hostility. United States v. Palmer, 3
In old records. The pleading of a cause. Spelman.
n English law. A colony; an original settlement in a new country. See 1 Bl. Comm. 107. In American law. A farm; a large cultivated estate. Used chiefly in the southern states.
Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the plebs or commonalty, (that Is, the citizens, with the exception of the patricians and senators,) at the request or on the proposition of
In old English law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; ex- tending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 2216; Cowell.
Lat In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Bell. Plus exempla quam peccata nocent. Examples hurt more than crimes. Plus peccat author quam actor. The originator or instigator of
The form of government; civil constitution.
An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.
Producing for examination or taxation, as porrectiug a bill of costs, by a proctor.
Laid down, enacted, or prescribed. Express or affirmative. Direct, ab- solute, explicit. As to positive “Condition,” “Evidence,” “Fraud,” “Proof,” and “Servitude,” see those titles.
The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave- nues over which the mails shall be transported. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct. CI. 204. A “post
Lat. Possibility; power.
Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of “pactum.”
Possessing royal privileges. See COUNTY PALATINE.
Error in the computation of time.
The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.