Legal Term Dictionary

In the language of the courts of equity, a "stale" claim or demand is one which has not been pressed or asserted for so long a time that the owner or creditor is chargeable with laches, and that changes occurring meanwhile in the relative situation of the parties, or the More...

In the language of the courts of equity, a "stale" claim or demand is one which has not been pressed or asserted for so long a time that the owner or creditor is chargeable with laches, and that changes occurring meanwhile in the relative situation of the parties, or the intervention of new Interests or equities, would render the enforcement of the claim or demand against conscience. See The Galloway C. Morris, 2 Abb. U. S. 164, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,111; King v. White, 63 Vt. 158, 21'Atl. 535, 25 Am. St. Rep. 752; Ashurst v. Peck, 101 Ala. 499, 14 South. 541; The Harriet Ann, 11 Fed. Cas. 597. Less...

Tbe liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664.

Tbe liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664. Less...

In Saxon law. The prefectus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market

In Saxon law. The prefectus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market Less...

An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, hearing a particular device, printed and sold More...

An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, hearing a particular device, printed and sold by the government, and required to be attached to mall-matter, and to some other articles subject to duty or excise. --Stamp Act. In English law. Acts regulating the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agreements, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes, letters, receipts, and other papers.-Stamp duties. Duties imposed upon and raised from stamps upon parchment and paper, and forming a branch of the perpetual revenue of the king* dom. 1 Bl. Comm. 323. Less...

In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their Journey. 7 ?eliv App. Cas. 53, $7, 58.

In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their Journey. 7 ?eliv App. Cas. 53, $7, 58. Less...

To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. To appear in court. -Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on. the drawing of a jury for a criminal More...

To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. To appear in court. -Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on. the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer nuts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being required to challenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, and the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evading its provisions. A similar practice is in use in Pennsylvania. See Warren v. Com., 37 Pa. 54: Zell v. Com., 94 Pa. 272; Haines v. Com.. 100 Pa. 322. But in Missouri, it is said that the words "stand aside" are the usual formula, used in impaneling a jury, for rejecting a juror. State v. Hultz, 106 Mo. 41, 16 S. W. 940. -Standing by is used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not the mere fact of "standing by," that lays the foundation of responsibility. The phrase does not import an actual presence, "but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render ft the duty of the possessor to communicate it." Anderson v. Hubble, 93 Ind. 573, 47 Am. Rep. -394; Gatling v. Rodman, 6 Ind. 292; Richardson v. Chickering, 41 N. H. 380, 77 Am. Dec. 769; Morrison v. Morrison, 2 Dana (Ky.) 16. -Standing mnte. A prisoner, arraigned for treason or felony, was said to "stand mute," when he refused to plead, or answered foreijrn to the purpose, or, after a plea of not guilty, would not put himself upon the country.- Standing orders are rules and forms regulating the procedure of the two houses of parliament, each having its own. They are of equal force in every parliament, except so far as tbey are altered or suspended from time to time. Cox, Inst. 136; May, Pari. Pr. 185.-Standing seised to uses. A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate covenants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in consideration of blood or marriage. It is a species of conveyance depending for its effect on the statute of uses. Less...

An ensign or flag used in war.

An ensign or flag used in war. Less...

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond.

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. Less...

In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. "Starboard tack," the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. Burrows v. Gower (D. C.) 119 Fed. 617.

In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. "Starboard tack," the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. Burrows v. Gower (D. C.) 119 Fed. 617. Less...

A district which includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. -Stannary courts. Courts in Devonshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These More...

A district which includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. -Stannary courts. Courts in Devonshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These courts were held before the lord warden and his deputies by- virtue of a privilege granted to the workers of the tin-mines there, to sue and be sued in their own courts only, in order that they might not be drawn away from their business by having to attend law-suits in distant courts. Brown. Less...