Legal Term Dictionary

Lat. From another source; from elsewhere; from outside. Evidence aliunde (i. e., from without the will) may be received to explain an ambiguity in a will. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 291.

Lat. From another source; from elsewhere; from outside. Evidence aliunde (i. e., from without the will) may be received to explain an ambiguity in a will. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 291. Less...

Collectively, this term designates the whole number of particulars, individuals, or separate items; distributively, it may be equivalent to "each" or "every." State v. Maine Cent R. Co., 66 Me. 510; Sherburne v. Sischo, 143 Mass. 442, 9 N. B. 797. —All and singular. A comprehensive term often employed in More...

Collectively, this term designates the whole number of particulars, individuals, or separate items; distributively, it may be equivalent to "each" or "every." State v. Maine Cent R. Co., 66 Me. 510; Sherburne v. Sischo, 143 Mass. 442, 9 N. B. 797. —All and singular. A comprehensive term often employed in conveyances, wills, and the like, which includes the aggregate or whole and also each of the separate items or components. McClaskey v. Barr (C. C.) 54 Fed. 798.—All faults. A sale of goods with "all faults" covers, in the absence of fraud on the part of the vendor, all such faults and defects as are not inconsistent with the identity of the goods as the goods described. Whitney v. Boardman, 118 Mass. 242~—All fours. Two cases or decisions which are alike in all material respects, and precisely similar in all the circumstances affecting their determination, are said to be or to run on "all fours."—All the estate. The name given in England to the short clause in a conveyance or other assurance which purports to convey "all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand" of the grantor, lessor, etc, in the property dealt with. Dav. Conv. 93. Allegans eontraria non est audiendus. One alleging contrary or contradictory things (whose statements contradict each other) is not to be heard. 4 Inst. 279. Applied to the statements of a witness. Allegans man turpitudinem non est audiendus. One who alleges his own infamy is not to be heard. 4 Inst 279. Allegarl men debuit quod probatum mom relevat. That ought not to be alleged which, if proved, is not relevant 1 Ch. Cas. 45. Less...

In Roman law. A word which the emperors formerly signed at the bottom of their rescripts and constitutions; under other instruments they usually wrote signata or testata. Enc. Lond.

In Roman law. A word which the emperors formerly signed at the bottom of their rescripts and constitutions; under other instruments they usually wrote signata or testata. Enc. Lond. Less...

Lat. Things alleged and proved. The allegations made by a party to a suit, and the proof adduced in their support. Allegatio contra factum, non est admittenda. An allegation contrary to the deed (or fact) is not admissible.

Lat. Things alleged and proved. The allegations made by a party to a suit, and the proof adduced in their support. Allegatio contra factum, non est admittenda. An allegation contrary to the deed (or fact) is not admissible. Less...

The assertion, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, made in a pleading, setting out what he expects to prove. A material allegation in a pleading is one essential to the claim or defense, and which could not be stricken from the pleading without leaving it insufficient. Code More...

The assertion, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, made in a pleading, setting out what he expects to prove. A material allegation in a pleading is one essential to the claim or defense, and which could not be stricken from the pleading without leaving it insufficient. Code Civil Proc. Cal. s 463. In ecclesiastical law. The statement of the facts intended to be relied on in support of the contested suit. In English ecclesiastical practice the word seems to designate the pleading as a whole; the three pleadings are known as the allegations; and the defendant's plea is distinguished as the defensive, or sometimes the responsive, allegation, and the complainant's reply as. the rejoining allegation. —Allegation of faculties. A statement made by the wife of the property of her husband, in order to her obtaining alimony. See Faculties. Less...

To state, recite, assert or charge; to make an allegation.

To state, recite, assert or charge; to make an allegation. Less...

Stated; recited; claimed; asserted; charged.

Stated; recited; claimed; asserted; charged. Less...

By allegiance is meant the obligation of fidelity and obedience which the individual owes to the government under which he lives, or to his sovereign in return for the protection he receives. It may be an absolute and permanent obligation, or it may be a qualified and temporary one. The More...

By allegiance is meant the obligation of fidelity and obedience which the individual owes to the government under which he lives, or to his sovereign in return for the protection he receives. It may be an absolute and permanent obligation, or it may be a qualified and temporary one. The citizen or subject owes an absolute and permanent allegiance to his government or sovereign, or at least until, by some open and distinct act, he renounces it and becomes a citizen or subject of another government or another sovereign. The alien, while domiciled in the country, owes a local and temporary allegiance, which continues during the period of his residence. Carlisle v. U. S., 16 Wall. 154. 21 L. Ed. 426; Jackson v. Goodell, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 191; U. S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649, 18 Sup. Ct. 456, 42 L. Ed. 890; Wallace v. Harmstad, 44 Pa. 501. 'The tie or ligamen which binds the subject or citizen] to the king [or government] in return for that protection which the king [or government] affords the subject [or citizen."] 1 Bl. Comm. 366. It consists in "a true and faithful obedience of the subject due to his sovereign." 7 Coke, 4b. Allegiance is the obligation of fidelity and obedience which every citizen owes to the state. Pol. Code Cal. § 55. In Norman French. Alleviation; relief; redress. Kelham. —Local allegiance. That measure of obedience which is due from a subject of one government to another government, within whose territory he is temporarily resident.—Natural allegiance. In English law. That kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within the king's dominions, immediately upon their birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and cannot be divested by any act of their own. 1 Bl. Comm. 3(39; 2 Kent, Comm. 42. In American law. The allegiance due from citizens of the United States to their native country, and also from naturalized citizens, and which cannot be renounced without the permission of government, to be declared by law. 2 Kent, Comm. 43-49. It differs from local allegiance, which Is temporary only, being due from an alien or stranger born for so long a time as he continues within the sovereign's dominions and protection. Fost. Cr. Law, 184. Less...

To defend and clear one's self; to wage one's own law.

To defend and clear one's self; to wage one's own law. Less...

The allegation in an appellate court, of some error in a subordinate part of the nisi prius record.

The allegation in an appellate court, of some error in a subordinate part of the nisi prius record. Less...