Legal Term Dictionary

In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or president judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from having authority over the judges of those places. Las Partldas, pt. 3, tit 4, 1. 1.

In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or president judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from having authority over the judges of those places. Las Partldas, pt. 3, tit 4, 1. 1. Less...

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo-Saxons, properly belonging to the king's children. Spelman.

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo-Saxons, properly belonging to the king's children. Spelman. Less...

Lat. In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst 2, 21, pr. Where it was expressly transferred from one person to another, it was called translatio. Id. 2, 21,1; Dig. 34, 4.

Lat. In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst 2, 21, pr. Where it was expressly transferred from one person to another, it was called translatio. Id. 2, 21,1; Dig. 34, 4. Less...

The revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, according to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an express revocation of it. Kenaday v. Sinnott 179 U. S. 606, 21 Sup. Ct More...

The revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, according to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an express revocation of it. Kenaday v. Sinnott 179 U. S. 606, 21 Sup. Ct 233, 45 L. Ed. 339; Burnham v. Comfort 108 N. Y. 535, 15 N. E. 710, 2 Am. St Rep. 462; Tanton v. Keller, 167 111. 129, 47 N. E. 376; Cowles v. Cowles, 56 Conn. 240,13 Atl. 414. "The word 'ademption' is the most significant, because, being a term of art, and never used for any other purpose, it does not suggest any idea foreign to that intended to be conveyed. It is used to describe the act by which the testator pays to his legatee, in his life-time, a general legacy which by his will he had proposed to give him at his death. (1 Rop. Leg. p. 365.) It is also used to denote the act by which a specific legacy has become inoperative on account of the testator having parted with the subject" Langdon v. Astor, 16 N. Y. 40. Ademption, in strictness, is predicable only of specific, and satisfaction of general legacies. Beck v. McGillis, 9 Barb.(N. Y.) 35. 56; Langdon v. Astor, 3 Duer (N. Y.) 477, 541. Less...

Lat. So, as. Adeo plena et integre, as fully and entirely. 10 Coke, 65

Lat. So, as. Adeo plena et integre, as fully and entirely. 10 Coke, 65 Less...

Sufficient; proportionate; equally efficient —Adequate care. Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take under similar circumstances to avoid accident: care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst (Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818.—Adequate cause. In criminal law. Adequate More...

Sufficient; proportionate; equally efficient —Adequate care. Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take under similar circumstances to avoid accident: care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst (Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818.—Adequate cause. In criminal law. Adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslaughter, means such cause as would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror, in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection. Insulting words or gestures, or an assault and battery so slight as to show no intention to inflict pain or injury, or an injury to property unaccompanied by violence are not adequate causes. Gardner v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 19. 48 & W. 170; Williams v. State, 7 Tex. App. 396; Boyett v. State, 2 Tex. App. 100.—Adequate compensation (to be awarded to one whose property is taken for public use under the power of eminent domain) means the full and just value of the property, payable in money. Buffalo, etc., R. Co. v. Ferris, 26 Tex. 58S.-Adequate consideration. One which is equal, or reasonably proportioned, to the value of that for which it is given. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. H 244-247. An adequate consideration is one which is not so disproportionate as to shock our sense of that morality and fair dealing which should always characterize transactions between man and man. Eaton v. Patterson, 2 Stew. & P. (Ala.) 9, 19.—Adequate remedy. One vested in the complainant, to which he may at all times resort at his own option, fully and freely, without let or hindrance. Wheeler v. Bedford, 54 Conn. 244, 7 Atl. 22. A remedy which is plain and complete and as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration as the remedy in equity. Keplinger v. Woolsey, 4 Neb. (Un-of.) 582, 93 N. W. 1008. Less...

In the civil law. To be present ; the opposite of abesse. Calvin

In the civil law. To be present ; the opposite of abesse. Calvin Less...

In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of adfunctio, (q. v.) Called also ferruminatio. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 276; Dig. 6, 1, 23, 5.

In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of adfunctio, (q. v.) Called also ferruminatio. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 276; Dig. 6, 1, 23, 5. Less...

In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the restitution of conjugal rights.

In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the restitution of conjugal rights. Less...

Joining, leagued with, cleaving to; as, "adhering to the enemies of the United States." Rebels, being citizens, are not "enemies," within the meaning of the constitution; hence a conviction for treason, in promoting a rebellion, cannot be sustained under that branch of the constitutional definition which speaks of "adhering to More...

Joining, leagued with, cleaving to; as, "adhering to the enemies of the United States." Rebels, being citizens, are not "enemies," within the meaning of the constitution; hence a conviction for treason, in promoting a rebellion, cannot be sustained under that branch of the constitutional definition which speaks of "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." United States v. Greathouse, 2 Abb. (U. S.) 364, Fed. Cas. No. 15.254. Less...