Legal Term Dictionary

As used in statutes providing for taxes on the circulation of hanks, this term includes all currency or circulating notes or bills, or certificates or bills intended to circulate as money. U. S. v. White (C. C.) 19 Fed. 723; IT. S. v. Wilson, 106 U. S. 620, 2 Sup. More...

As used in statutes providing for taxes on the circulation of hanks, this term includes all currency or circulating notes or bills, or certificates or bills intended to circulate as money. U. S. v. White (C. C.) 19 Fed. 723; IT. S. v. Wilson, 106 U. S. 620, 2 Sup. Ct. 85, 27 L. Ed. 310. —Circulating' medium. This term is more comprehensive than the term "money," as it is the medium of exchanges, or purchases and sales, whether it be gold or silver coin or any other article. Less...

In Scotch law. A closing of the period for lodging papers, or doing any other act required in a cause. Paters. Comp. —Circumduction of the term. In Scotch practice. The sentence of a judge, declaring the time elapsed within which a proof ought to have been led. and precluding the More...

In Scotch law. A closing of the period for lodging papers, or doing any other act required in a cause. Paters. Comp. —Circumduction of the term. In Scotch practice. The sentence of a judge, declaring the time elapsed within which a proof ought to have been led. and precluding the party from bringing forward any further evidence. Bell. Less...

The title of a statute passed 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, and so called from the initial words of it, the object of which was to ascertain the boundaries of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in some particulars, or, In other words, to regulate the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts. More...

The title of a statute passed 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, and so called from the initial words of it, the object of which was to ascertain the boundaries of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in some particulars, or, In other words, to regulate the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 215, 216. Less...

A principal fact or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it, which closely precede or follow It which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it or which support or qualify it Pfaffenback v. Railroad, 142 Ind. More...

A principal fact or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it, which closely precede or follow It which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it or which support or qualify it Pfaffenback v. Railroad, 142 Ind. 246, 41 N. E. 530; Clare v. People, 9 Colo. 122, 10 Pac. 799. The terms "circumstance" and "fact" are, in many applications, synonymous; but the true distinction of a circumstance is its relative character. "Any fact may be a circumstance with reference to any other fact." 1 Benth. Jud. Evid. 42, note; Id. 142. Thrift, integrity, good repute, business capacity, and stability of character, for example, are "circumstances" which may be very properly considered in determining the question of ^adequate security." Martin v. Duke, 5 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 600. Less...

Evidence directed to the attending circumstances ; evidence which inferentially proves the principal fact by establishing a condition of surrounding and limiting circumstances, whose existence is a premise from which the existence of the principal fact may be concluded by necessary laws- of reasoning. State v. Avery, 113 Mo. 475, More...

Evidence directed to the attending circumstances ; evidence which inferentially proves the principal fact by establishing a condition of surrounding and limiting circumstances, whose existence is a premise from which the existence of the principal fact may be concluded by necessary laws- of reasoning. State v. Avery, 113 Mo. 475, 21 S. W. 193; Howard v. State, 34 Ark. 433; State v. Evans, 1 Marvel (Del.) 477, 41 Atl. 136; Comm. v. Webster, 5 Cush. (Mass.) 319, .52 Am. Dec. 711; Gardner v. Preston, 2 Day (Conn.) 205, 2 Am. Dec. 91; State v. Miller, 9 Houst (Del.) 564, 32 Atl. 137. When the existence of any fact is attested by witnesses, as having come under the cognizance of their senses, or is stated in documents, the genuineness and veracity of which there seems no reason to question, the evidence of that fact is said to be direct or positive. When, on the contrary, the existence of the principal fact is only inferred from one or more circumstances S rhich have been established directly, the evi-ence is said to be circumstantial. And when the existence of the principal fact does not follow from the evidentiary facts as a necessary consequence of the law of nature, but is deduced from them by a process of probable reasoning, the evidence and proof are said to be presumptive. Best, Pres. 246; Id. 12. All presumptive evidence is circumstantial, because necessarily derived from or made up of circumstances, but all circumstantial evidence is, not presumptive, that is, it does not operate in the way of presumption, being sometimes of a higher grade, and leading to necessary conclusions, instead of probable ones. Burrill. Less...

See TALES.

See TALES. Less...

In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 49, 155. And see Oregon v. Jennings, 119 U. S. 74, 7 Sup. Ct. 124, 30 L. Ed. 323.

In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 49, 155. And see Oregon v. Jennings, 119 U. S. 74, 7 Sup. Ct. 124, 30 L. Ed. 323. Less...

In Anglo-Saxon and old English law, a church. —Ciric-bryce. Any violation of the privileges of a church.—Ciric soeat. Church-scot, or shot; an ecclesiastical due, payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting chiefly of corn.

In Anglo-Saxon and old English law, a church. —Ciric-bryce. Any violation of the privileges of a church.—Ciric soeat. Church-scot, or shot; an ecclesiastical due, payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting chiefly of corn. Less...

A ceorl, (q. v.)

A ceorl, (q. v.) Less...

A box or cheat for the deposit of charters, deeds, and things of value.

A box or cheat for the deposit of charters, deeds, and things of value. Less...