Legal Term Dictionary

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 303. In international law. The right of staple, as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be More...

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 303. In international law. The right of staple, as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be that they may not allow them to set their merchandises and wares to sale but in a certain place. This practice is not in use in the United States. l.Chit. Com. Law, 103. -Staple Inn. An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY. -Statu.te-ataple. In English law. A security for a debt acknowledged to be due, so called from its being entered into before the mayor of the staple, that is to say, the grand mart for the principal commodities or manufactures of the kingdom, formerly held by act of parliament in certain trading towns. In other respects it resembled the statute-merchant, (a. v.,) but like that has now fallen into disuse. 2 Bl. Comm. 100; 1 Steph. Comm. 287. Less...

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, combination of maintenance, or overawing influence that no inferior court would find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council,' the common-law judges, and More...

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, combination of maintenance, or overawing influence that no inferior court would find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council,' the common-law judges, and (it seems) all peers of parliament. In the reign of Henry VIII. and his successors, the jurisdiction of the court was illegally extended to such a degree (especially in punishing disobedience to the king's arbitrary proclamations) that it became odious to the nation, and was abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 310; Sweet. Less...

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477.

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477. Less...

Lat. To appear before a tribunal, either as plaintiff or defendant.

Lat. To appear before a tribunal, either as plaintiff or defendant. Less...

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word "shetar," a covenant By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositories established by law, the most considerable of which was in More...

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word "shetar," a covenant By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositories established by law, the most considerable of which was in the king's exchequer at Westminster ; and Blackstone conjectures that the room in which these chests were kept was thence called the "starr-chamber." 4 Bl. Comm. 266, 267, note a. Stat pro ratione voluntas. The will stands in place of a reason. Sears v. Shaf er, 1 Barb. (N. Y.) 408, 411; Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. Hunt, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 514, 525. Stat pro ratione voluntas popnli. The will of the people stands in place of a reason. People Draper, 25 Barb. (N. Y.) 344, 376. Less...

v. To express the particulars of a thing In writing or in words; to set down or set forth in detail. To set down in gross; to mention in general terms, or by way of reference; to refer. Utica v. Richardson, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 300.

v. To express the particulars of a thing In writing or in words; to set down or set forth in detail. To set down in gross; to mention in general terms, or by way of reference; to refer. Utica v. Richardson, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 300. Less...

n. A body politic, or society of men, united together for the purpose, of promoting their mutual, safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their combined strength. Cooley, Const Lim. 1. One of the component commonwealths or states of the United States of America. The people of a state, More...

n. A body politic, or society of men, united together for the purpose, of promoting their mutual, safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their combined strength. Cooley, Const Lim. 1. One of the component commonwealths or states of the United States of America. The people of a state, in their collective capacity, considered as the party wronged by a criminal deed; the public; as in the title of a cause, "The State vs. A. B." The section of territory occupied by one of the United States. -Foreign state. A foreign country or nation. 'The several United States are considered "foreign" to each other except as regards their relations as common members of the Union.- State's evidenoe.. See EVIDENCE.-State officers. Those whose duties concern the state at large or the general public, or who are authorized to exercise their official functions throughout the entire state, without limitation to any political subdivision of the state. In another sense, officers belonging to or exercising authority under one of the states of the Union, as distinguished from the officers of the United States. See In re Police Com'rs. 22 R. I. 654. 49 Atl. 36; State v. Burns, 38 Fla. 378. 21 South. 290: People v. Nixon, 158 N. Y. 221, 52 N. E. 1117.-State paper. A document prepared by, or relating to, the political department of tbe government of a state or nation, and concerning or affecting the administration of its government or its political or international relations. Also, a newspaper, designated by public authority, as the organ for the publication of public statutes, resolutions, notices, and advertisements.-State tan. A tax the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the expenses of the state, as distinguished from taxation for local or municipal purposes. See Youngblood v. Sexton, 32 Mich. 413, 20 Am. Rep. 654; State v. Auditor of State, 15 Chio St. 482.-State trial. A trial for a political offense.-State Trials. A work in thirty-three volumes octavo, containing all English trials for offenses against the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. II. to the first of Geo. IV. Less...

Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently be brought before the court itself, each party in tbe suit carried in before the master a statement More...

Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently be brought before the court itself, each party in tbe suit carried in before the master a statement showing how the party bringing it in represented the matter In question to be; and this statement was technically termed a "state of facts," and formed the ground upon which the evidence was received, the evidence being, in fact, brought by one party or the other, to prove his own or disprove his opponent's state of facts. And so now, a state of facts means the statement made by any one of his version of the facts. Brown. Less...

In English lunacy practice, when a person has been found a lunatic, the next step is to submit to the master a scheme called a "state of facts and proposal," showing what is the position in life, property, aqd income of the lunatic, who are his next of kin and More...

In English lunacy practice, when a person has been found a lunatic, the next step is to submit to the master a scheme called a "state of facts and proposal," showing what is the position in life, property, aqd income of the lunatic, who are his next of kin and heir at law, who are proposed as his committees, and what annual sum is "proposed to be allowed for his maintenance, etc. From the state of facts and the evidence adduced in support of it, the master frames his report Elmer, Lun. 22; Pope, Lun. 79; Sweet Less...

A narrative of the facts upon which the plaintiff relies, substituted for a more formal declaration, in suits in the Inferior courts. The phrase is used in New Jersey.

A narrative of the facts upon which the plaintiff relies, substituted for a more formal declaration, in suits in the Inferior courts. The phrase is used in New Jersey. Less...