Legal Term Dictionary

That part of political science which is concerned in collecting and arranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statistics, or facts which illustrate the former condition of a state; (2) statistics of population; (3) of revenue; (4) of More...

That part of political science which is concerned in collecting and arranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statistics, or facts which illustrate the former condition of a state; (2) statistics of population; (3) of revenue; (4) of trade, commerce, and navigation; (5) of the moral, social, and physical condition of the people. Wharton. Less...

Lat. In Roman law. One who Is made free by will under a condition ; one who has his' liberty fixed and appointed at a certain time or on a certain condition. Dig. 40, 7.

Lat. In Roman law. One who Is made free by will under a condition ; one who has his' liberty fixed and appointed at a certain time or on a certain condition. Dig. 40, 7. Less...

Lat. In Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who had acquired the right of being free at a time to come, or on a condition which was not fulfilled, or in a certain event which had not happened, but who in the mean time remained in a state of slavery. Civ. More...

Lat. In Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who had acquired the right of being free at a time to come, or on a condition which was not fulfilled, or in a certain event which had not happened, but who in the mean time remained in a state of slavery. Civ. Code La. (Ed. 1838) art. 37. Less...

that which is introduced or governed by statute law, as 'opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have statutory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is given to it In certain matters by act of the legislature.

that which is introduced or governed by statute law, as 'opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have statutory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is given to it In certain matters by act of the legislature. Less...

v. In old Scotch law. To ordain, establish, or decree.

v. In old Scotch law. To ordain, establish, or decree. Less...

n. An act of the legislature; a particular law enacted and established by the will of the legislative department of government, expressed with the requisite formalities. In foreign and civil law. Any particular municipal law or usage, though resting for its authority on judicial decisions, or the practice of nations. More...

n. An act of the legislature; a particular law enacted and established by the will of the legislative department of government, expressed with the requisite formalities. In foreign and civil law. Any particular municipal law or usage, though resting for its authority on judicial decisions, or the practice of nations. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The whole municipal law of a particular state, from whatever source arising. Story, Confl. Laws, f 12. "Statute" also sometimes means a kind of bond or o obligation of record, being an abbreviation for "statute merchant" or "statnte staple." See infra. -Affirmative statute. See AFFIRMATIVE. -Declaratory statute. See DECLARATORY. -Enabling statute. See that title.-Expository statute. See that title.-General statute. A statute relating to the whole community, or concerning all persons generally, as distinguished from a private or special statute. 1 Bl. Comm. 85, 86; 4 Coke, 75a.-Local statute. Such a statute as has for its object the interest of some particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market in a particular district, etc.-Negative statute. A statute expressed in negative terms; a statute which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done.-Penal statute. See PENAL.-Perpetual statute. One which is to remain in force without limitation as to time; one which contains no provision for its repeal, abrogation, or expiration at any future time.-Personal statutes. In foreign and modern civil law. Those statutes which have principally for their object the person, and treat of property only incidentally. Story, Confl. Laws, g 13. A personal statute, in this sense of the term, is a law. ordinance, reflation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity, which he does not change with every change of abode, but which, upon principles of justice and policy, he is assumed to carry with him wherever he goes. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The term is also applied to statutes which, instead of being general, are confined in their operation to one person or group of persons. Bank of Columbia v. Walker, 14 Lea (Tenn.) 308; Saul v. Creditors. 5 Mart N. S. (La.) 591, 16 Am. Dec. 212.-Private statnte. A statute which operates only upon particular persons, and private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86. An act which relates to certain individuals, or to particular classes of men. Dwar. St. 629: State v. Chambers, 93 N. C. 600.-Public statute. A statute enacting a universal rule which regards the wholecommunity, as distinguished from one which concerns only particular individuals and affects only their private rights. See Code Civ. Proc. Cal. J 1896.- Real statutes. In the civil law. Statutes which have principally for their object property, and which do not speak of persons, except in relation to property. Story, Confl. Laws, f 13; Saul v. His Creditors, 5 Mart N. S. (La.) 582, 16 Am, Dec. 212.-Remedial statute. See REMEDIAL.-Revised statutes. A body of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole; this is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states and also of the United States.-Special statute. One which operates only upon particular persons and private concerns. 1 Bl. Oomm. 86. Distinguished from a general or public statute. -Statute fair. In English law. A fair at which laborers of both sexes stood and offered themselves for hire; sometimes called also "Mop."-Statute-merchant. In English law. A security for a debt acknowledged to be due, entered into before the chief magistrate of some trading town, pursuant to the statute 13 Edw. I. De llcrcatoribus, by which not only the body of the debtor might be imprisoned, and his goods seized in satisfaction of the debt, but also his lands might be delivered to the creditor till out of the rents and profits of them the debt be satisfied. 2 Bl. Comm. 160. Now fallen into disuse. 1 Steph. Comm. 287. See Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. Y.) 404.-Statute of accumulations. In English law. The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, forbidding the accumulation, beyond a certain period, of property settled by deed or will.-Statute of allegiance de facto. An act of 11 Hen. VII. c. 1, requiring subjects to give their allegiance to the actual king for the time being, and protecting them in so doing.-Statnte of distributions. See DISTRIBUTION.-Statute of Elisabeth. In English law. The statute 13 Eliz. c. 5, against conveyances made in fraud of creditors. -Statute of frauds. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF.-Statute of Gloucester. In English law. The statute 6 Edw. I..c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions. 3 Bl. Comm. 391).-Statute of laborers. See LABORER.-Statnte of limitations. See LIMITATION.-Statnte of uses. See USE.-Statute of wills. In English law. The statute 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, which enacted that all persons being seised in fee-simple (except femes covert, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory might, by will and testament in writing, devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 375.-Statute roll. A roll upon which an English statute, after receiving the royal assent, was formerly entered.-Statute staple. See STAPLE.-Statutes at large. Statutes printed in full and in the order of their enactment, in a collected form, as distinguished from any digest, revision, abridgment, or compilation of them. Thus the volumes of "United States Statutes at Large," contain all the acts of congress in their order. The name is also given to an authentic collection of the various statutes which have been passed by the British parliament from very early times to the present day. Statutes in derogation of common law must be strictly construed. Cooley, Const. Lim. 75, note; Arthurs, Appeal of, 1 Grant Cas. (Pa.) 57. Less...

Lat. In Roman law. Licensed or registered advocates; members of the college of advocates. The number of these was limited, and they enjoyed special privileges from the time to Constantine to that of Justinian.

Lat. In Roman law. Licensed or registered advocates; members of the college of advocates. The number of these was limited, and they enjoyed special privileges from the time to Constantine to that of Justinian. Less...

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband has been made, but before It has been made absolute, is that of a married woman, More...

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband has been made, but before It has been made absolute, is that of a married woman, we mean that she has the same legal rights, liabilities, and disabilities as an ordinary married woman. The term is chiefly applied to persons under disability, or persons who have some peculiar condition which prevents the general law from applying to them in the same way as it does to ordinary persons. Sweet See Barney v. Tourtellotte, 138 Mass. 108; De la Montanya v. De la Montanya, 112 Cal. 115, 44 Pac. 345, 32 L. R. A. 82, 53 Am. St Rep. 165; Dunham v. Dunham, 57 111. App. 497. There are certain rights and duties, with certain capacities and incapacities to take rights and incur duties, by which persons, as subjects of law, are variously determined to certain classes. The rights, duties, capacities, or incapacities which determine a given person to any of these classes, constitute a condition or status with which the person is invested. Aust Jur. 8 973. -Status de manerlo. The assembly of the tenants in the court of the lord of a manor, in order to do their customary suit-Status of irremovability. In English law. The right acquired by a pauper, after one year's residence in any parish, not to he removed therefrom.- Status quo. The existing state of things at any given date. Status quo ante helium, the state of things before the war. Statute pro publico oommodo late in-terpretantur. Jenk. Cent 21. Statutes made for the public good ought to be liberally construed. Statuta suo oluduntur territorio, nee ultra territorium disponnnt. Statutes are confined to their own territory, and have no extraterritorial effect. Woodworth v. Spring, 4 Allen (Mass.) 324. Less...

Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute. -Statutory crime. See CRIME.-Statutory dedication. See DEDICATION.-Statutory exposition. When the language of a statute is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation of the former act, it is said to More...

Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute. -Statutory crime. See CRIME.-Statutory dedication. See DEDICATION.-Statutory exposition. When the language of a statute is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation of the former act, it is said to contain a statutory exposition of the former act. Wharton.-Statutory foreclosure. See FORECLOSURE.-Statutory obligation. An obligation-whether to pay money, perform certain acts, or discharge certain duties-which is created by or arises out of a statute, as distinguished from ono founded upon acts between parties or jural relationships.-Statutory release. A conveyance which superseded the old compound assurance by lease and release. It was created by St. 4 & 5 Vict a 21, which abolished the lease for a year. Less...

In old records. A store, or stock of cattle. A term of common occurrence in the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.

In old records. A store, or stock of cattle. A term of common occurrence in the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell. Less...