Legal Term Dictionary

In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a-judgment or sentence given by the emperor upon hearing of a cause, (quod imperator coo-noscens decrevit.) Inst. 1, 2, 6. In canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law, (lex.) 1 Mackeld. Civil Law, p. 81, ? More...

In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a-judgment or sentence given by the emperor upon hearing of a cause, (quod imperator coo-noscens decrevit.) Inst. 1, 2, 6. In canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law, (lex.) 1 Mackeld. Civil Law, p. 81, ? 93, (Kaufinann's note.) Less...

Gratian's decree, or decretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as the first in order of the collections which together form the body of the Roman canon law. 1 More...

Gratian's decree, or decretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as the first in order of the collections which together form the body of the Roman canon law. 1 Bl. Comm. 82; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 67. Less...

The act of depriving of a crown.

The act of depriving of a crown. Less...

To cry down; to deprive of credit "The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current!' 1 Bl. Comm. 278.

To cry down; to deprive of credit "The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current!' 1 Bl. Comm. 278. Less...

Lat A decurion. In the provincial administration of the Roman empire, the decurions were the chief men or official personages of the large towns. Taken as a body, the decurions of a city were charged with the entire control and administration of its internal affairs; having powers both magisterial and More...

Lat A decurion. In the provincial administration of the Roman empire, the decurions were the chief men or official personages of the large towns. Taken as a body, the decurions of a city were charged with the entire control and administration of its internal affairs; having powers both magisterial and legislative. See 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 54. Less...

In Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter.

In Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter. Less...

(Lat l have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of conveyance when such Instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a warranty of title. Deakins v. Ilollis, 7 Gill A J. (Md.) 315.

(Lat l have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of conveyance when such Instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a warranty of title. Deakins v. Ilollis, 7 Gill A J. (Md.) 315. Less...

I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the English "given and granted" being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such conveyances are made. 2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. More...

I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the English "given and granted" being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such conveyances are made. 2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. Comm. 164, 177, 473, 474. Less...

To appropriate and set apart one's private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evincing an intention to do so.

To appropriate and set apart one's private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evincing an intention to do so. Less...

In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use, made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public; a deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than such More...

In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use, made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public; a deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted. People v. Marin County, 103 Cal. 223, 37 Pac. 203, 26 L. R. A. 650; Gro-gan v. Hayward (C. C.) 4 Fed. 161; Gowan v. Philadelphia Exch. Co., 5 Watts & S. (Pa.) 141, 40 Am. Dec. 489; Alden Coal Co. v. Challis, 200 111. 222, 65 N. E. 665; Barteau v. West, 23 Wis. 416; Wood v. Hurd, 34 N. J. Law, 87. Express or implied. A dedication may be express, as where the intention to dedicate is expressly manifested by a deed or an explicit oral or written declaration of tbe owner, or some other explicit manifestation of his purpose to devote the land to the public use. An implied dedication may be shown by some act or course of conduct on the part of the owner from which a reasonable inference of intent may be drawn, or which is inconsistent with any other theory than that he intended a dedication. Culmer v. Salt Lake City, 27 Utah, 252, 75 Pac. 620; San Antonio v. Sullivan, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 019, 57 S. W. 42* Kent v. Pratt, 73 Conn. 573, 48 Atl. 418; Hurley v. West St. Paul, 83 Minn. 401, 86 N. W. 427; People v. Marin County, 103 Cal. 223. 37 Pac. 203, 26 L. R. A. 659. Common-law or statutory. A common-law dedication is one made as above described, and may be either express or implied. A statutory dedication is one made under and in conformity with the provisions of a statute regulating the subject, and is of course necessarily express. San Antonio v. Sullivan, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 619, 57 S. W. 42; People v. Marin County, 108 Cal. 223, 37 Pac 203, 26 L. R. In copyright law. The first publication of a work, without having secured a copyright, is a dedication of it to the public; that having been done, any one may republish it. Rartlett v. Crittenden, *5 McLean, 32, Fed. Cas. No. 1,07a Less...