Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. . A habitation or dwelling, generally with land at* tached. Spelman. A residence or dwelling-house for the parish priest; a parsonage or vicarage house. Cowell. Still used in Scotch law in this sense. -

In old English law. . A habitation or dwelling, generally with land at* tached. Spelman. A residence or dwelling-house for the parish priest; a parsonage or vicarage house. Cowell. Still used in Scotch law in this sense. - Less...

A bastard. Cowell.

A bastard. Cowell. Less...

A dwelling-house or place of residence, Including its appurtenant outbuildings. Thompson v. People, 3 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 214; Comm. v. Pennock, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 199; Armour v. State, 3 Humph. (Tenn.) 385; Devoe v. Comm., 3 Mete. (Mass.) 325. The mansion includes not only the dwelling-house, More...

A dwelling-house or place of residence, Including its appurtenant outbuildings. Thompson v. People, 3 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 214; Comm. v. Pennock, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 199; Armour v. State, 3 Humph. (Tenn.) 385; Devoe v. Comm., 3 Mete. (Mass.) 325. The mansion includes not only the dwelling-house, but also the outhouses, such as barns, stables, cowhouses, dairy houses, and tbe like, ifl they are parcel of the messuage (that is, within the curtilage or protection of the dwelling-house) though not under the same roof nor contiguous to it. 2 East, P. C. 492; State v. Brooks, 4 Conn. 448; Bryant v. State, 60 Ga. 358; Fletcher v. State, 10 Lea (Tenn.) 339. In old English law. Residence: dwelling. -Mansion-honse. In the law of burglary, etc., any species of dwelling-house. 3 Inst. 64. Less...

In criminal law. The unlawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied; which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act. 1 Hale, P. C. 466; 4 Bl. Comm. 191. Manslaughter Is the unlawful killing of a human More...

In criminal law. The unlawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied; which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act. 1 Hale, P. C. 466; 4 Bl. Comm. 191. Manslaughter Is the unlawful killing of a human creature without malice, either express or implied, and without any mixture of deliberation whatever; which may be voluntary, upon a sudden heat of passion, or involuntary, in the commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act without due caution and circumspection. Code Ga. 1882, ? 4324; Pen. Code Cal. ? 192. And see Wallace v. U. S., 162 U. S. 466, 16 Sup. Ct. 859, 40 L. Ed, 1039; Stokes v. State, 18 Ga. 35; Clarke v. State, 117 Ala. 1..23 South. 671, 67 Am. St Rep. 157; U. S. v. King (C. C.) 34 Fed. 309; People v. Maine, 51 App. Div. 142, 64 N. Y. Supp. 579; High v. State, 26 Tex. App. 545; 10 S. W. 238, 8 Am. St. Rep. 488; State y. Workman, 39 S. C. 151, 17 S. E. 694; State v. Brown, 2 Marv. (Del.) 380, 36 Atl. 458; U. S. v. Lewis (C. C.) Ill Fed. 632; State y. Zellers, 7 N. J. Law, 243. The distinction between "manslaughter" and "murder" consists in the following: In the former, though the act which occasions the death be unlawful or likely to be attended with bodily mischief, yet the malice, either express or implied, which is the very essence of murder, is presumed to be wanting in manslaughter. 1 East, P. C. 218; Comm. v. Webster. 5 Cush. Mass.) 304, 52 Am. Dec. 711. It also differs rom "murder" in this: that there can be no accessaries before the fact, there having been no time for premeditation. 1 Hale, P. C. 437; 1 Russ. Crimes, 485; 1 Bish. Crim. Law, 678. -Voluntary manslaughter. In criminal law. Manslaughter committed voluntarily upon a sudden heat of the passions; as if, upon a sudden quarrel, two persons fight, and one of them kills the other. 4 Bl. Comm. 190, 191. Less...

In old English law. A mansion or house. Spelman. -Maninm eapitale. The manor-house or lord's court. Paroch. Antiq. 150.

In old English law. A mansion or house. Spelman. -Maninm eapitale. The manor-house or lord's court. Paroch. Antiq. 150. Less...

A word sometimes used synonymously with "kidnapping,* (Q. v.)

A word sometimes used synonymously with "kidnapping,* (Q. v.) Less...

Lat. Tame; as though accustomed to come to the hand. 2 BL Comm. 391.

Lat. Tame; as though accustomed to come to the hand. 2 BL Comm. 391. Less...

In old records. A long robe or mantle.

In old records. A long robe or mantle. Less...

In Saxon law. A horsestealer.

In Saxon law. A horsestealer. Less...

To pick pockets,

To pick pockets, Less...