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Lat In the civil law. Impotent persons. Those who, on account of their temperament or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst. 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2,

In criminal law. As secured by constitutional guaranties, a speedy trial means a trial conducted according to fixed rules, regulations, and proceedings of law, free from vexatious, capricious, and oppressive delays manufactured

Lat. Do you undertake? I do undertake. The most common form of verbal stipulation in the Roman law. Inst 3, 16, 1. Spondet peritiam artis. He promises the skill of his art;

In American law. One who settles on another’s land, particularly on public lands, without a title. See O’Donnell v. Mclntyre, 16 Abb. N. C. (N. Y.) 84; Park- ersburg Industrial Co. v.

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. STANNARIES 1105 STATE

Lat. Forthwith; immediately. In old English law, this term meant either “at once,” or “within a legal time,” i. e., such time as permitted the legal and regular performance of the act

rence In the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.

If the plaintiff in a plalut in the mayor’s court of London has attached property belonging to the defendant and obtained execution against the garnishee, the defendant, if he wishes to contest

Liquidated damage, (q. v.)

L. Lat. A man of straw, oue of no substance, put forward as bail or surety.

Lat. Of the strictest right or law. “Licenses beiug matter of special indulgence, the application of them was formerly strictissimi juris.” 1 Edw. Adm. 328.

Lat. In the civil law. Unlawful intercourse with a woman. Distinguished from adultery as being committed with a virgin or widow. Dig. 48, 5, 6.

The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was

The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has

In French law. The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent’s estate.

Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.

Those persons who by his authority follow or attend an ambassador or other public minister.

Eat Strict right; extreme right The extremity or rigor of the law. Summnm jns, summa injuria; summa lex, summa crux. Extreme law (rigor of law) Is’ the greatest Injury; strict law is

In English law. An ofiicer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union in England and Wales.

In English law. The “supplies” in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of tlie crown and the various public