Legal Term Dictionary

To restrict or shut up a person, as a political prisoner, within a limited territory.

To restrict or shut up a person, as a political prisoner, within a limited territory. Less...

Relating to the interior) comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or Interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign. -Internal commerce. See COMMERCE.-Internal improvements. With reference to governmental policy and constitutional provisions restricting taxation or the contracting of public debts, this term means works of general public utility or advantage, designed More...

Relating to the interior) comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or Interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign. -Internal commerce. See COMMERCE.-Internal improvements. With reference to governmental policy and constitutional provisions restricting taxation or the contracting of public debts, this term means works of general public utility or advantage, designed to promote facility of intercommunication, trade, and commerce, the transportation of persons and property, or the development of the natural resources 6f the state, such as railroads, public highways, turnpikes, and canals, bridges, the improvement of rivers and harbors, systems of artificial irrigation, and the improvement of water powers; but it does not include the building and maintenance of state institutions. See Guernsey v. Burlington, 11 Fed. Cas. 99; Rippe v. Becker, 56 Minn. 100, 57 N. W. 331, 22 L. R. A. 857; State v. Froehlich, 115 Wis. 32, 91 N. W. 115, 58 L. R. A. 757, 95 Am. St. Rep. 894 ; U. S. v. Dodge County, 110 U. S. 156, 3 Sup. Ct. 590, 28 L. Ed. 103; In re Senate Resolution, 12 Colo. 285, 21 Pac. 483; Savannah v. Kelly, 108 U. S. 184, 2 Sup. Ct. 468, 27 L. Ed. 696; Blair v. Cuming County, 111 U. S. 363, 4 Sup. Ct. 449. 28 L. Ed. 457.-Internal police. A term sometimes applied to the police flower, or power to enact laws in the interest of the public safety, health, and morality, which is inherent in the legislative authority of each state, is to be exercised with reference only to its domestic affairs and its own citizens, and is not surrendered to the federal government. See Cheboygan Lumber Co. v. Delta Transp. Co., 100 Mich. 16, 58 N. W. 630.-Internal rero-nne. In the legislation and fiscal administration of the United States, revenue raised by the imposition of taxes and excises on domestic products or manufactures, and on domestic business and occupations, inheritance taxes, and stamp taxes; as broadly distinguished from "customs duties," t. e., duties or taxes on foreign commerce or on goods imported. See Rev. St. U. S. tit. 35 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2038). -Internal waters. Such as lie wholly within the body of the particular state or country. The Garden City (D. C.) 26 Fed. 773. Less...

See COMMERCE.

See COMMERCE. Less...

The law which regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations. 1 Kent, Comm. 1, 4. l The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of independent states in peace and war. 1 Wildm. Int Law, 1. The system of rules and principles, founded on treaty, More...

The law which regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations. 1 Kent, Comm. 1, 4. l The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of independent states in peace and war. 1 Wildm. Int Law, 1. The system of rules and principles, founded on treaty, custom, precedent, and the consensus of opinion as to justice and moral obligation, which civilized nations recognize as binding upon them in their mutual dealings and relations. Heirn v. Bridault, 37 Miss. 230; U. S. v. White (C. C.) 27 Fed. 201. Public International law is the body of rules which control the conduct of independent states in their relations with each other. Private international law is that branch of municipal law which determines before the courts of what nation a particular action or suit should be brought, and by the law of what nation it should be determined; In other words, it regulates private rights as dependent on a diversity of municipal laws and jurisdictions applicable to the persons, facts, or things in dispute, and the subject of it is hence sometimes called the "conflict of laws." Thus, questions whether a given person owes allegiance to a particular state where he is domiciled, whether his status, property, rights, and duties are governed by the lex situs, the lex loci,, the lex fori, or the lex domicilii, are questions with which private international law has to deal. Sweet; Roche v. Washington, 19 Ind. 55, 81 Am. Dec. 376w. Less...

A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the papal court in countries where that court has no nuncio.

A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the papal court in countries where that court has no nuncio. Less...

A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied .to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204.

A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied .to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204. Less...

In the civil law. The act by which, in consequence ot an agreement, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst Nat | 752.

In the civil law. The act by which, in consequence ot an agreement, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst Nat | 752. Less...

1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsibility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. ,286. See INTERPLEADER. 2. In Missouri, a statutory proceeding serving as a More...

1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsibility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. ,286. See INTERPLEADER. 2. In Missouri, a statutory proceeding serving as a substitute for the action of replevin, by which a third person intervenes in an action of attachment sets up his own. title to the specific property attached, and. seeks to recover the possession of it See, Rice v. Sally, 176 Mo. 107, 75 S. W. 398 Spooner v. Ross, 24 Mo. App. 603; State v. Barker, 26 Mo. App. 491; Brownwell, etc,. Car. Co. v. Barnard, 139 Mo. 142, 40 S. W. 762. . Less...

When two or more-persons claim the same thing (or fund), of a third, and he, laying no claim to it himself is ignorant which of them has a right to it and fears he may be prejudiced by their proceeding against him to recover It, he may file a bill More...

When two or more-persons claim the same thing (or fund), of a third, and he, laying no claim to it himself is ignorant which of them has a right to it and fears he may be prejudiced by their proceeding against him to recover It, he may file a bill In equity against them, the object of. which is to make them litigate their title between themselves, instead of litigating ft with him, and such a bill is called a "bill of interpleader." Brown. By the statute 1 A 2 Wm. IV. c. 58, summary proceedings at law were provided for the same purpose, in actions of assumpsit, debt, detinue, and trover. And the same', remedy is known, in one form or the other)] in most or all of the United States. Under the Pennsylvania practice, when goods, levied upon by the sheriff are claimed by a third' party, the sheriff takes a rule of interpleader on the parties, upon which, when made absolute, a feigned issue is framed, and the title to the, goods is tested. The goods, pending the proceed-, ings, remain in the custody of the defendant uf>-on the execution of a forthcoming bond. Bouvier. Less...

To insert words in a complete document.

To insert words in a complete document. Less...