Legal Term Dictionary

These terms are used to signify connection with, or limitation with reference to, a particular country or territory. Thus, "territorial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, aitnough "municipal law" is more common. "Territorial waters" are that part of the sea adjacent to More...

These terms are used to signify connection with, or limitation with reference to, a particular country or territory. Thus, "territorial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, aitnough "municipal law" is more common. "Territorial waters" are that part of the sea adjacent to the coast of a given country which is by international law deemed to be within the sovereignty of that country, so that its courts have jurisdiction over offenses committed on those waters, even by a person on board a foreign ship. Sweet Less...

The courts established In the territories of the United States.

The courts established In the territories of the United States. Less...

A part of a country separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. In American law. A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which has not yet been admitted as a state of the Union, but is organized, with a separate legislature, More...

A part of a country separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. In American law. A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which has not yet been admitted as a state of the Union, but is organized, with a separate legislature, and with executive and judicial officers appointed by the president. See Ex parte Morgan (D. C.) 20 Fed. 304; People v. Daniels, 6 Utah, 288, 22 Pac. 159, 5 L. R. A. 444; Snow v. U. S., 18 Wall. 317, 21 L. Ed. 784. -Territory of a judge. The territorial jurisdiction of a judge; the bounds, or district within which he may lawfully exercise his judicial authority. Phillips v. Thralls, 26 Kan. 781. Less...

Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appearance of danger. In an indictment for riot, it must be- charged that the acts done were to the terror of the people." See Arto More...

Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appearance of danger. In an indictment for riot, it must be- charged that the acts done were to the terror of the people." See Arto v. State, 19 Tex. App. 13a Less...

Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclamation of intended marriage.

Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclamation of intended marriage. Less...

Lat In the civil law. A third person Intervening; a third person who comes in between the parties to a suit; one who interpleads. Gilbert's Forum Rom. 47.

Lat In the civil law. A third person Intervening; a third person who comes in between the parties to a suit; one who interpleads. Gilbert's Forum Rom. 47. Less...

To bring one to a trial and examination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing. Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing; a criterion, gauge, standard, or norm. In public law, an inquiry or examination addressed to a person appointed or More...

To bring one to a trial and examination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing. Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing; a criterion, gauge, standard, or norm. In public law, an inquiry or examination addressed to a person appointed or elected to a public office, to ascertain his qualifications therefor, but particularly a scrutiny of his political, religious, or social views, or his attitude of past and present loyalty or disloyalty to the government under which he is to act. See Attorney General v. Detroit Common Council, 58 Mich. 213, 24 N. W. 887, 55 Am. Rep. 675; People v. Hoffman, 116 111. 587, 5 N. E. 596, 66 Am. Rep. 793; Rogers v. Buffalo, 51 Hun, 637, 3 N. T. Supp. 674. -Test act. The statute 25 Car. II. c. 2, which directed all civil and military officers to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and make the declaration against transubstan-tiation, within six months after their Admission, and also within the same time receive the sacrament according to the usage of tbe Church of England, under penalty of ?500 and disability to hold the office. 4 Bl. Comm. 58, 59. This was abolished by St. 9 Geo. IV. c. 17, so far as concerns receiving the sacrament, and a new form of declaration was substituted. -Test action. An action selected out of a considerable number of suits, concurrently depending in the same court, brought by several plaintiffs against the same defendant, or by one plaintiff against different defendants, all similar in their ci rcumstances, and embracing the same questions, and to be supported by the same evidence, the selected action to go first to trial, (under an order of court equivalent to consolidation,) and its decision to serve as a teat of the right of recovery in the others, all parties agreeing to be bound by the result of the test action.-Test oath. An oath required to be taken as a criterion of the fitness of the person to fill a public or political office; but particularly an oath of fidelity and allegiance (past or present) to the established government. -Test-paper. In practice. A paper or instrument shown to a jury as evidence. A term used in the Pennsylvania courts. Depue v. Clare, 7 Pa. 428. Less...

An ancient and authentic record in two volumes, in the custody of the king's remembrancer in the exchequer, said to be compiled by John de Nevil, a justice itinerant, in the eighteenth and twenty-fourth years of Henry III. Cowell. These volumes were printed in 1807, under the authority of the More...

An ancient and authentic record in two volumes, in the custody of the king's remembrancer in the exchequer, said to be compiled by John de Nevil, a justice itinerant, in the eighteenth and twenty-fourth years of Henry III. Cowell. These volumes were printed in 1807, under the authority of the commissioners of the public records, and contain an account of fees held either Immediately of the king or of others who held of the king in capite; fees holden in frankalinoigne; serjeanties holden of ,the king; widows and heiresses of tenants in capite, whose marriages were in the gift of the king; churches in the gift of the king; escheats, and sums paid for scutages and aids, especially within the county of Hereford. Cowell; Wharton. Less...

A person is said to be testable when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of sane mind is testable.

A person is said to be testable when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of sane mind is testable. Less...

The state or condition of leaving a will at one's death. Opposed to "intestacy."

The state or condition of leaving a will at one's death. Opposed to "intestacy." Less...