STEP-SON
The son of one’s wife by a former husband, or of one’s husband by a former wife.
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The son of one’s wife by a former husband, or of one’s husband by a former wife.
Estates granted in return for services, generally of a military kind. 1 Steph. Comm. 174.
In Scotch law. Formerly this word included every species of theft accompanied with violence to the person. but of late years it has become the rox siqnata for forcible and masterful depredation
An urban way or thoroughfare ; a road or public way in a city, towu, or village, generally paved, aud lined or intended to be lined by houses on each side. See
See STRIKING A JURY.
Lat In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman.
In criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would con- stitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, US Ga. 705, 45 S. E.
are assessed to satisfy a bare legal right. Wharton.
In Hindu law. The best; tbe fore-court of a house; the chief seat of gov- ernment, contradistinguished from “mofus- sil,” or interior of the country; the presiden- cy. Wharton.
Lat. Of his own right; possessing full social and civil rights; not under any legal disability, or the power of another, or guardianship. Having capacity to manage one’s own affairs; not under
In practice. To serve a summons ; to cite a defendant to appear in court to answer a suit which has been begun against him; to notify the defendant that an action
Lat In the civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent Dig. 43, 18,
See OATH.
To put more cattle upon a common than the herbage will sustain or than the party has a right to do. 3 Bl. Comm. 237. In equity practice. To show that a
A yielding up of an estate for life or years to him who has an im- mediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which the lesser estate is merged in the greater
Lat To render to every one his own. One of the three fundamental maxims of the law laid down by Justinian.
In old English law. Persons who, by mutual oaths, covenant to share in each other’s fortunes.
A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; being the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latin. There are four kinds: (1) A general or universal synod or council, where
A term sometimes applied to unofficial volumes or series of reports, as contrasted with those prepared by the official reporter of the court, or to collections of cases omitted from tbe official
In ecclesiastical law. When this word is used alone, it means the SIGNING JUDGMENT 1089