Legal Term Dictionary

To conceal or hide away. Particularly, to put property out of the reach of creditors, either -by corporally hiding it, or putting the title in another's name, or otherwise hindering creditors from levying on it or attaching it Pearre v. Hawkins, 62 Tex. 437; Guile v. McNanny, 14 Minn. 522 More...

To conceal or hide away. Particularly, to put property out of the reach of creditors, either -by corporally hiding it, or putting the title in another's name, or otherwise hindering creditors from levying on it or attaching it Pearre v. Hawkins, 62 Tex. 437; Guile v. McNanny, 14 Minn. 522 (Gil. 391) 100 Am. Dec. 244 ; Sturz v. Fischer, 15 Misc. Rep. 410, 36 N. Y. Supp. 894. Less...

"A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, but constituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects or people." State v. Hallock, 16 Nev. 385.

"A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, but constituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects or people." State v. Hallock, 16 Nev. 385. Less...

The secretary of a corporation or association is an officer charged with the direction and management of that part of the business of the company which Is concerned with keeping the records, the official correspondence, with giving and receiving notices, countersigning documents, etc. The name "secretary" is also given to More...

The secretary of a corporation or association is an officer charged with the direction and management of that part of the business of the company which Is concerned with keeping the records, the official correspondence, with giving and receiving notices, countersigning documents, etc. The name "secretary" is also given to several of the heads of executive departments* in the government of the United States; as the "Secretary of War," "Secretary of the Interior," etc. It is also the style of some of the members of the English cabinet; as the "Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." There are also secretaries of embassies and legations. -Secretary of decrees and injunctions. An officer of the English court of chancery. The office was abolished by St. 15 A 16 Vict c. 87, ? 23.-Secretary of embassy. A diplomatic officer appointed as secretary or assistant to an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.-Secretary of legation. An officer employed to attend a foreign mission and to perform certain duties as clerk.-Secretary of state. In American law. This is the title of the chief of the executive bureau of the United States called the "Department of State." |Ie is a member of the cabinet, and is charged with the general administration of the international and diplomatic affairs of the government. In many of the state governments there is an executive officer bearing the same title and exercising important functions. In English law. The secretaries of state are cabinet ministers attending the sovereign for the receipt and dispatch of letters, grants, petitions, and many of the most important affairs of the king- dom, both foreign and domestic. There are five principal secretaries,-one for the home department, another for foreign affairs, a third for the colonies, a fourth for war, and a fifth for India. Wharton. Less...

In old English law. Suit; attendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or following, i. e., the witnesses whom he was required, in tile ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defendant was put to the necessity of answering More...

In old English law. Suit; attendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or following, i. e., the witnesses whom he was required, in tile ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defendant was put to the necessity of answering the declaration. See 3 Bl. Comm. 295, 344; Bract, fol. 214a. A survival from this proceeding is seen in the formula still used at the end of declarations, "and therefore he brings his suit" (et inde producit sectam.) This word, in its secondary meaning, signifies suit in the courts; lawsuit -Secta ad curiam. A writ that lay against him who refused to perform his suit either to the county court or the court-baron. Cowell. -Secta ad farnam. In old English law. Suit due to a man's public oven or bake-house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235.-Secta ad jnsticiam f ac-iendam. In old English law. A service which a man is bound to perform by his fee.-Secta ad molendinnm. A writ which lay for the owner of a mill against the inhabitants of a place where such mill is situated, for not doing suit to the plaintiff's mill; that is, for not having their corn ground at it. Brown.-Secta ad torrale. In old English law. Suit due to a man's kiln or malt house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235. -Secta cnriae. In old English law. Suit of court; attendance at court. The service, incumbent upon feudal tenants, of attending the lord at his court, both to form a jury when required, and also to answer for their own actions when complained of.-Secta facienda per iUam qua? habet enieiam partem. A writ to compel the heir, who has the elder's part of the co-heirs, to perform suit and services for all the coparceners, Reg. Orig. 177. oo-Secta regalia. A suit so called by which all persons were bound twice in the year to attend in the sheriff's tourn, in order that they might be informed of things relating to the public peace. It was so called because the sheriff's tourn was the king's leet, and it was held in order that the people might be bound by oath to bear true allegiance to the king. Cowell.-Secta nnica tantnm facienda pro pluribus bssreditatibus. A writ for an heir who was distrained by the lord to do more suits than one, that he should be allowed to do one suit only in respect of the land of divers heirs descended to him. Cowell. Secta est pngna civilis $ siont actores armantnr aetionibns, et, quasi, gladiis aocinguntnr, ita rei mnninntnr excep-tionibns, et def endnntnr, quasi, clypeis. Hob. 20. A suit is a civil warfare; for as the plaintiffs are armed with actions, and, as it were, girded with swords, so the defendants are fortified with pleas, and are defended, as it were, by shields. Secta quad seripto nititur a scripto varlari non debet. Jenk. Cent. 65. A suit which is based upon a writing ought not to vary from'the writing. Less...

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22.

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22. Less...

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called * "sections," sometimes "arti cles," and occasionally "paragraphs."

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called * "sections," sometimes "arti cles," and occasionally "paragraphs." Less...

In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each "township" (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided into half-sections and quarter-flections. The general and proper acceptation of the More...

In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each "township" (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided into half-sections and quarter-flections. The general and proper acceptation of the terms Less...

A Writ which lay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court Cowell.

A Writ which lay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court Cowell. Less...

Lat In Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales.

Lat In Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales. Less...

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical; relating to affairs of the present world. -Secular business. As used in Sunday laws; this term includes all forme of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment and commercial dealings; such as the making of promissory notes,lending money, and More...

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical; relating to affairs of the present world. -Secular business. As used in Sunday laws; this term includes all forme of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment and commercial dealings; such as the making of promissory notes,lending money, and the like. See Lovejoy v. Whipple* 18 Vt. 383, 46 Am. Dec. 157; Finn v. Donahue, 35 Conn. 217; Allen v. Deming, 14 N. H. 139, 40 Am. Dec 179; Smith v. Foster, 41 N. H. 221.-Secular clergy. In ecclesiastical law, this term la applied to the parochial clergy, who perform their ministry in seculo (in the world), and who are thus distimniished from the monastic or "regular" clergy. Steph. Comm. 681, note. Less...