Legal Term Dictionary

An accused person who admits his guilt.

An accused person who admits his guilt. Less...

1. An opposition, conflict or antagonism between differ- ent laws of the same state or sovereignty upon tbe same subject-matter. 2. A similar inconsistency between the municipal laws of different states or countries, arising in the case of persons who have acquired rights or a status, or made contracts, or More...

1. An opposition, conflict or antagonism between differ- ent laws of the same state or sovereignty upon tbe same subject-matter. 2. A similar inconsistency between the municipal laws of different states or countries, arising in the case of persons who have acquired rights or a status, or made contracts, or incurred obligations, within the territory of two or more states. 3. That branch of Jurisprudence, arising from the diversity of the laws of different nations in their application to rights and remedies, which reconciles the inconsistency, or decides which law or system is to govern in the particular case, or settles the degree of force to be accorded to the law of a foreign country, (the acts or rights in question having arisen under it,) either where it varies from the domestic law, or where the domestic law is silent or not exclusively applicable to the case in point In this sense it is more properly called "private international law." Less...

In this conflict certain rules are applicable, viz.: (1) Special take precedence of general presumptions; (2) constant of casual ones; (3) presume in favor of innocence; (4) of legality; (5) of validity; and, when these rules fail, the matter is said ta be at large. Brown.

In this conflict certain rules are applicable, viz.: (1) Special take precedence of general presumptions; (2) constant of casual ones; (3) presume in favor of innocence; (4) of legality; (5) of validity; and, when these rules fail, the matter is said ta be at large. Brown. Less...

In English ecclesiastical'law. Adherence to the doctrines and usages of the Church of England. —Conformity, bill of. See Bnx OF CONFORMITY.

In English ecclesiastical'law. Adherence to the doctrines and usages of the Church of England. —Conformity, bill of. See Bnx OF CONFORMITY. Less...

Fr. In old English law. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society. Cowell.

Fr. In old English law. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society. Cowell. Less...

Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell.

Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell. Less...

In criminal law. the act of setting a witness face to face with the prisoner, in order that the latter may make any objection he has to the witness, or that the witness may identify the accused. State v. Behrman, 114 N. C. 797, 19 S. E. 220, 25 L. More...

In criminal law. the act of setting a witness face to face with the prisoner, in order that the latter may make any objection he has to the witness, or that the witness may identify the accused. State v. Behrman, 114 N. C. 797, 19 S. E. 220, 25 L. R. A. 449; Howser v. Com., 51 Pa. 332; State v. Mannion, 19 Utah, 505, 57 Pac. 542, 45 LL p. A. 638, 75 Am. St. Rep. 753; People v. Elliott, 172 N. Y. 146, G4 N. E. 837, 60 L. R. A. 318. Less...

In the civil law. The inseparable intermixture of property belonging to different owners; it is properly confined to the pouring together of fluids, but Is sometimes also used of a melting together of metals or any compound formed by the irrecoverable commixture of different substances. It is distinguished from commiwtion More...

In the civil law. The inseparable intermixture of property belonging to different owners; it is properly confined to the pouring together of fluids, but Is sometimes also used of a melting together of metals or any compound formed by the irrecoverable commixture of different substances. It is distinguished from commiwtion by the fact that in the latter case a separation may be made, while in a case of eonfusio there cannot be. 2 Bl. Comm. 405. Less...

This term, as used in the civil law and in compound terms derived from that source, means a blending or intermingling, and is equivalent to the term "merger" as used at common law. Palmer v. Burnside, 1 Woods, 182, Fed. Cas. No. 10,685. —Confusion of boundaries. The title of that More...

This term, as used in the civil law and in compound terms derived from that source, means a blending or intermingling, and is equivalent to the term "merger" as used at common law. Palmer v. Burnside, 1 Woods, 182, Fed. Cas. No. 10,685. —Confusion of boundaries. The title of that branch of equity jurisdiction which relates to the discovery and settlement of conflicting, disputed, or uncertain boundaries.—Confusion of debts. A mode of extinguishing a debt, by the concurrence in the same person of two qualities which mutually destroy one another. This may occur in several ways, as where the creditor becomes the heir of the debtor, or the debtor the heir of the creditor, or either accedes to the title of the other by any other mode of transfer. Woods v. Ridley, 11 Humph. (Tenn.) 198.—Confusion of ax>ods. The inseparable intermixture of property belonging to different owners; properly confined to the pouring together of -fluids, but used in a wider sense to designate any indistinguishable compound of elements belonging to different owners. The term "confusion" is applicable to a mixing of chattels of one and the ,same general description, differing thus from "accession," which is where various materials are united in one product. Confusion of goods arises wherever the goods of two or more persons are so blended as to have become undistinguishable. 1 Schouler, Pers. Prop. 41. Treat V. Barber, 7 Conn. 280; Robinson v. Holt, 39 N. H. 563, 75 Am. Dec. 233; Belcher v. Commission Co., 26 Tex. Civ. App. 60, 62 S. W. 924.—Confusion of rights. A union of the qualities of debtor and creditor in the same person. The effect of such a union Is, generally, to extinguish the debt 1 Salk. 306;*Cro. Car. 551.—Confusion of titles. A civil-law expression, synonymous with "merger," as used in the common law, applying where two titles to the same property unite in the same person. Palmer v. Burnside, 1 Woods, 179, Fed. Cas. No. 10,685. Less...

Fr. In the French law. Permission, leave, license; a passport or clearance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel. —Conge d'aecorder. Leave to accord. A permission granted by tbe court in the old process of levying a fine, to the defendant to agree with the More...

Fr. In the French law. Permission, leave, license; a passport or clearance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel. —Conge d'aecorder. Leave to accord. A permission granted by tbe court in the old process of levying a fine, to the defendant to agree with the plaintiff.—Conge d'emparler. Leave to imparl. The privilege of an imparlance, (W-centia loquendi.) 3 Bl. Comm. 299.—Conae d'eslire. A permission or license from the British sovereign to a dean and chapter to elect a bishop, in time of vacation; or to an abbey or priory which is of royal foundation, to elect an abbot or prior. Less...