Legal Term Dictionary

Lat. But see. This remark, followed by a citation, directs the reader's attention to an authority or a statement which conflicts with or contradicts the statement or principle laid down.

Lat. But see. This remark, followed by a citation, directs the reader's attention to an authority or a statement which conflicts with or contradicts the statement or principle laid down. Less...

Protection; assurance; indemnification. The term is usually applied to an obligation, pledge, mortgage, deposit, Uen, etc., given by a debtor in order to make sure the payment or performance of his debt, by furnishing the creditor with a resource to be used in case of failure in the principal obligation. More...

Protection; assurance; indemnification. The term is usually applied to an obligation, pledge, mortgage, deposit, Uen, etc., given by a debtor in order to make sure the payment or performance of his debt, by furnishing the creditor with a resource to be used in case of failure in the principal obligation. The name is also sometimes given to one who becomes surety or guarantor for another. See First Nat Bank v. Hollinsworth, 78 Iowa, 575, 43 N. W. 53C, 6 L. R. A. 92; Storm v. Waddell, 2 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 507; Gogglns v. Jones, 115 Ga. 596, 41 S. E. 995; Jennings v. Davis, 31 Conn. 139; Mace v. Buchanan (Tenn. Ch-) 52 S. W. 507. -Collateral security. See COLLATERAL.- Counter security. See COUNTER.-Marshaling securities. See MARSHALING.- Personal security. (1) A person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation. 1 Bl. Comm. 129. Sanderson v. Hunt, 25 Ky. Law Rep. 626, 76 S. W. 179. (2) Evidences of debt which bind the person of the debtor, not real prroperty, are distinguished from such as are iens on land by the name of "personal securities." Merrill v. National Bank, 173 U. S. 131, 19 Sup. Ct. 360, 43 L. Ed. 640.-Public securities. Bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, and other negotiable or transferable instruments evidencing the public debt of a state or government.-Real security. The security of mortgages or other liens or incumbrances upon land. See Merrill v. National Bank, 173 U. S. 131, 19 Sup. Ct. 360, 43 L. Ed. 640.-Seenrity for costs. See COSTS.- Security for good behavior. A bond or recognisance which the magistrate exacts from a defendant brought before him on a charge of disorderly conduct or threatening violence, conditioned upon his being of good behavior, or keeping the peace, for a prescribed period, towards all people in general and the complainant in particular. Securiua eapediuntur negotia eont-missa pluribus, ot pins vident oemU qnam oculus. 4 Coke, 46a. Matters intrusted to several are more securely dispatched, and eyes see more than eye, [? e.( "two heads are better than one."] Less...

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291.

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291. Less...

Lat The see being filled. A phrase used when a bishop's see is not vacant

Lat The see being filled. A phrase used when a bishop's see is not vacant Less...

Lat. The court sitting ; during the sitting of the court

Lat. The court sitting ; during the sitting of the court Less...

ACTS OF. In Scotch law. Certain ancient ordinances of the court of session, conferring upon the courts power to establish general rules of practice. Bell.

ACTS OF. In Scotch law. Certain ancient ordinances of the court of session, conferring upon the courts power to establish general rules of practice. Bell. Less...

Lat. A see; the dignity of a bishop. 3 Steph. Comm. 65.

Lat. A see; the dignity of a bishop. 3 Steph. Comm. 65. Less...

like "sea-shore" imports a tract of land below high-water mark. Church v. Meeker, 84 Conn* 421.

like "sea-shore" imports a tract of land below high-water mark. Church v. Meeker, 84 Conn* 421. Less...

An insurrectionary movement tending towards treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state. The distinction between "sedition" and "treason" consists in this: that though the ultimate object of sedition is a violation of the public peace, More...

An insurrectionary movement tending towards treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state. The distinction between "sedition" and "treason" consists in this: that though the ultimate object of sedition is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws or the subversion of the constitution. Alis. Crim. Law, 580. In Scotch law. The raising commotions or disturbances in the state. It is a revolt against legitimate authority. Ersk. Inst 4, 4, 14. In English law. Sedition is the offense of publishing, verbally or otherwise, any words or document with the intention of exciting disaffection, hatred, or contempt against the sovereign, or the government and constitution of the kingdom, or either house of parliament, or the administration of justice, or of exciting his majesty's subjects to attempt otherwise than by lawful means, the alteration of any matter In church or state, or of exciting feelings of ill will and hostility between different classes of his majesty's subjects. Sweet And see State v. Shepherd, 177 Mo. 205, 76 S. W. 79, 99 Am. St. Rep. 624. -Seditions libel. See LIBEL. Less...

To entice a woman to the commission of fornication or adultery, by persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or otherwise: to corrupt; to debauch. The word "seduce," when used with reference to the conduct of a man towards a woman, has a precise and determinate signification, and "evi termini*' implies the commission More...

To entice a woman to the commission of fornication or adultery, by persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or otherwise: to corrupt; to debauch. The word "seduce," when used with reference to the conduct of a man towards a woman, has a precise and determinate signification, and "evi termini*' implies the commission of fornication. An information for the crime of seduction need not charge the offense in any other words. State v. Bierce, 27 Conn. 319. Less...