Legal Term Dictionary

In medical jurisprudence. Sunstroke or heat-stroke; heat prostration.

In medical jurisprudence. Sunstroke or heat-stroke; heat prostration. Less...

The condition of a person who Is insolvent; inability to pay one's debts; lack of means to pay one's debts. Such a relative condition of a man's assets and liabilities that the former, if all made immediately available, would not be sufficient to discharge the latter. Or the condition of More...

The condition of a person who Is insolvent; inability to pay one's debts; lack of means to pay one's debts. Such a relative condition of a man's assets and liabilities that the former, if all made immediately available, would not be sufficient to discharge the latter. Or the condition of a person who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business. See Dewey v. St Albans Trust Co., 56 Vt. 475, 48 Am. Rep. 803; Toof v. Martin, 13 Wall. 47, 20 L. Ed. 481; Miller v. Southern Land & Lumber Co., 53 S. C. 364, 31 S. E. 281; Leitch v. Hollls-ter, 4 N. Y. 215; Silver Valley Mining Co. v. North Carolina Smelting-Co., 119 N. C. 417, 25 S. E. 954; French v. Andrews, 81 Hun, 272, 30 N. Y. Supp. 796; Appeal of Bowersox, 100 Pa. 438, 45 Am. Rep. 387; Van Riper v. Poppenhausen, 43 N. Y. 75; Phipps v. Harding, 70 Fed. 470, 17 C. C. A 203, 30 L. It A. 513; Shone v. Lucas, 8 Dowl. & R. 218; Herrick v. Borst, 4 Hill Less...

One who cannot or does not pay; one who is unable to pay his debts; one who Is not solvent; one who has not means or property sufficient to pay his debts. See INSOLVENCY. -Insolvent law. A term applied to a law, usually of one of the states, regulating the More...

One who cannot or does not pay; one who is unable to pay his debts; one who Is not solvent; one who has not means or property sufficient to pay his debts. See INSOLVENCY. -Insolvent law. A term applied to a law, usually of one of the states, regulating the settlement of insolvent estates, and according a certain measure of relief to insolvent debtors. Cook v. Rogers, 31 Mich. 396; Adams v. Storey. "1 Fed. Cas. 141; Vanuxem v. Hazelhursts, 4 N. J. Law, 195, 7 Am. Dec 582." Less...

A prosecutor or adversary.

A prosecutor or adversary. Less...

The examination or testing of food, fluids, or other articles made subject by law to such examination, to ascertain their fitness for' use or commerce.' People v. Compagnle Generale Transatlan-tique (C. C.) 10 Fed. 361; Id., 107 U. S. 59, "2 Sup. Ct. 87, 27 L. Ed. 383 ; Turner More...

The examination or testing of food, fluids, or other articles made subject by law to such examination, to ascertain their fitness for' use or commerce.' People v. Compagnle Generale Transatlan-tique (C. C.) 10 Fed. 361; Id., 107 U. S. 59, "2 Sup. Ct. 87, 27 L. Ed. 383 ; Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38, 2 Sup. Ct. 44, 27 I* Ed. 370." Also the examination by a private person of public records and documents; or of the books and papers of his opponent in an action, for the purpose of better preparing his own case for trial -Inspection laws. Laws authorising and directing the inspection and examination of various kinds of merchandise intended for sale, especially food, with a view to ascertaining its fitness for use, and excluding unwholesome or unmarketable goods from sale, and directing the appointment of official inspectors for that purpose. See Const. U. S. art. 1. 8 10, d. 2; Story, Const. ? 1017, et seq. Gibbons v. Og-den. 9 Wheat. 202, 6 L. Ed. 23; Clintsmaa v. Northrop, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 45; Patapsco Guano Co. v. Board of Agriculture. 171 U. S* 345, 18 Sun. Ct. 862, 41 L. Ed. 191; Turner v. State, 55 Md. 263.-Inspection of documents. This phrase refers to tbe right of a party, in a civil action, to inspect and make copies of documents which are essential or material to the maintenance of his cause, and which are either in the custody of an officer of the law or in the possession of the adverse party.-Inspection, trial by. A mode of trial formerly in use in England, by which the judges of a court decided a point in dispute, upon tbe testimony of their own senses, with* out the intervention of a jury. This took place In cases where the fact npon which issue was taken must from its nature, be evident to the court from ocular demonstration, or other irrefragable proof; and was adopted for the greater expedition of a cause. 3 Bl. Comm. Less...

Officers whose duty It is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc

Officers whose duty It is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc Less...

In English law. An instrument entered into between an Insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such Insolvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors.

In English law. An instrument entered into between an Insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such Insolvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors. Less...

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 53o.

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 53o. Less...

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as tbe placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary Into his stall or seat or a knight into his order. Wharton.

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as tbe placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary Into his stall or seat or a knight into his order. Wharton. Less...

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown. Less...