BLACKLEG
A person who gets his living by frequenting race-courses and places where games of chance are played, getting the best odds, and giving the least he can, but not necessarily cheating. That
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AGNATI
In Roman law. The term included “all the cognates who trace their connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates is formed by taking each lineal ancestor in turn and including all
MIXED BLOOD
A person is “of mixed blood” who is descended from ancestors of different races or nationalities; but particularly, in the United States, the term denotes a person one of whose parents (or
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.
POLICE
Police is the function of that branch of the administrative machinery of government which is charged with the preservation of public order and tranquillity, the promotion of the public health, safety, and
OMITTANCE
Forbearance; omission. Omne actum ab intentione agentis est judicandum. Every act is to be judged by the intention of the doer. Branch, Princ. Omne crimen ebrietas et incendit et detegit. Drunkenness both
PARDON
An act of grace, proceeding from tlie power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a
PARENT
The lawful father or the mother of a person. Appeal of Gibson, 154 Mass. 378, 28 N. E. 290. This word is dis- tinguished from “ancestors” in including only the immediate progenitors
JURY
In practice. A certain number of men, selected according to law, and sworn (jurati) to inquire of certain matters of fact, and declare the truth upon evidence to be laid before them.
PERCOLATE,
as used in the cases relating to the right of land-owners to use water on their premises, designates any flow- age of sub-surface water other than that of a running stream, open,
INFAMIA
Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by law as the consequence of crime; in- famia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of
MISCEGENATION
Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro.
PEREGRINI
Lat In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the
POOL
1. A combination of persons or corporations engaged in the same business, or for the purpose of engaging in a particular business or commercial or speculative venture, where all contribute to a
PERISH
To come to an eud; to cease to be; to die. PERISHA3LE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the terra may embrace
LIEUTENANT
any debt or d_ity; every such claim or charge remaining a lieu on the property, although not in the possession of the person’ to whom the debt or duty is due. Downer
LINEAGE
Race; progeny ; family, ascending or descending. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224.
MELIORATIONS
In Scotch law. Improvements of an estate, other than mere re- pairs; betterments. 1 Bell, Comm. 73. Occasionally used in English and American law in the sense of valuable and lasting improvements
PETTIFOGGER
A lawyer who is em- ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprincipled or dishonorable means. “We think that the term ‘pettifogging shyster” needed
