CIVIL
In its original sense, this word means pertaining or appropriate to a member of a civitas or free political community; natural or proper to a citizen. Also, relating to the community, or
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BUSINESS HOURS
Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily carried on. This phrase is declared to mean not the
CRIMINALPROCEDURE
The method pointed out by law for the apprehension. trial, or prosecution, and fixing the punishment. of those persons who have broken or violated, or are supposed to have broken or violated,
AT COMMON LAW
As distinguished from a criminal action, it is one which seeks the establishment, recovery, or redress of private and civil rights. Civil suits relate to and affect, as to the parties against
BIENES GANANCIALES
A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the property being divisible equally between them on the dissolution of the marriage; does not include what they held as their
COMMERCE
Intercourse by way of trade and traffic between different peoples or states and the citizens or inhabitants thereof, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities, but also the instrumentalities
PRIVATE BILL
All legislative bills which have for their object some particular or private interest are so termed, as distinguished from such as are for the benefit of the whole community, which are thence
BILL OF CREDIT
In constitutional law. A bill or promissory note issued by the government of a state or nation, upon its faith and credit, designed to circulate in the community as money, and redeemable
CHARACTER
The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distinguish an individual person ; the general result of the-one’s distinguishing attributes. That moral predisposition or habit, or aggregate of ethical qualities,
APPLICABLE
When a constitution or court declares that the common law is In force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it is meant that it must be applicable to
PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATIONS
Those whose operations serve the needs of the general public or conduce to the comfort and convenience of an entire community, such as railroads, gas, water, and electric light companies. The business
ADOPTION AND LEGITIMATION
Adoption, properly speaking, refers only to persons who are strangers in blood, and is not synonymous with “legitimation,” which refers to persons of the same blood. Where one acknowledges his illegitimate child
COMMON REPUTE
The prevailing belief in a given community as to the existence of a certain fact or aggregation of facts. Brown v. Foster, 41 S. C. 118, 19 S. E. 299.
JURAL
1. Pertaining to natural or positive right, or to the doctrines of rights and obligations; as “jural relations.” 2. Of or pertaining to jurisprudence; juristic ; juridical. 3. Recognized or sanctioned by
MARK
1. A character, usually in the form of a cross, made as a substitute for his signature by a person who cannot write, in executing a conveyance or other legal docu- ment.
MARRIAGE
Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, Is the civil status of one man and one woman united in law for life, for the
JURISPRUDENCE
The philosophy of law, or the science which treats of the principles of positive law and legal relations. “The term is wrongly applied to actual systems of law, or to current views
NATION
A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic
CURRENT MONEY
The currency of the country : whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v. McKinney. 5 Lea (Tenn.) 90. In this phrase
DE FACTO
In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs which exists actually and must be accepted for all
