Legal Term Dictionary

Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord.

Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord. Less...

One day's work performed by a tenant for his lord.

One day's work performed by a tenant for his lord. Less...

In general, the exertion of power; the process of operating or mode of action; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan. See Little Rock v. Parish, 36 Ark. 166; Fleming OU Co, v. South Penn Oil Co., 37 W. Va. 653, 17 & E. 203. In surgical More...

In general, the exertion of power; the process of operating or mode of action; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan. See Little Rock v. Parish, 36 Ark. 166; Fleming OU Co, v. South Penn Oil Co., 37 W. Va. 653, 17 & E. 203. In surgical practice, the term is of Indefinite import, but may be approximately defined as an act or succession of acts performed upon the body of a patient, for his relief or restoration to normal conditions, either by manipulation or the use of surgical instruments or both, as distinguished from therapeutic treatment by the administration of drugs or other remedial agencies. See Akrldge v. Noble, 114 Ga, 949, 41 S. E. 78. -Criminal operation. In medical jurisprudence. An operation to procure an abortion. Miller v. Bayer, 94 Wis. 123, 68 N. W. 869.- Operation of law. This term expresses the manner in which rights, and sometimes liabilities, devolve upon a person by the mere application to the particular transaction of the es^ tablished rules of law, without the act or cooperation of the party himself. Less...

A workman; a laboring man; an artisan; particularly one employed in factories. Cocking v. Ward (Tenn. Ch. App.) 48 S. W. 287; In re City Trust Co., 121 Fed. 706, 58 C. C. A. 126; Rhodes v. Matthews, 67 Ind. 131.

A workman; a laboring man; an artisan; particularly one employed in factories. Cocking v. Ward (Tenn. Ch. App.) 48 S. W. 287; In re City Trust Co., 121 Fed. 706, 58 C. C. A. 126; Rhodes v. Matthews, 67 Ind. 131. Less...

That part of a conveyance, or of any Instrument intended for the creation or transference of rights, by which the main object of the instrument is carried into effect. It is distinguished from Introductory matter, recitals, formal conclusion, etc.

That part of a conveyance, or of any Instrument intended for the creation or transference of rights, by which the main object of the instrument is carried into effect. It is distinguished from Introductory matter, recitals, formal conclusion, etc. Less...

in a deed or lease, are the words which effect the transaction Intended to be consummated by the instrument .

in a deed or lease, are the words which effect the transaction Intended to be consummated by the instrument . Less...

Lat In the civil law. A protest or warning against [of] a new work. Dig. 39, L

Lat In the civil law. A protest or warning against [of] a new work. Dig. 39, L Less...

The ancient time of marriage, from Epiphany to Ash-Wednesday. Opinio est duplex, scilicet, opinio Tul* gnris, orta inter graves ot disoretos, ot QUSB vultum veritatls habet | ot opinio tantnm orta inter lores et vulgares homines, absque specie veritatia. 4 Coke, 107. Opinion is of two kinds, namely, common opinion, More...

The ancient time of marriage, from Epiphany to Ash-Wednesday. Opinio est duplex, scilicet, opinio Tul* gnris, orta inter graves ot disoretos, ot QUSB vultum veritatls habet | ot opinio tantnm orta inter lores et vulgares homines, absque specie veritatia. 4 Coke, 107. Opinion is of two kinds, namely, common opinion, which springs up among grave and discreet men, and which has the appearance of truth, and opinion which springs up only among light and foolish men* without the semblance of truth. Opinio qua) favet testamento est te-nenda. The opinion which favors a will is to be followed. 1 W. Bl. 13, arg. Less...

1. In the law of evidence, opinion is an Inference or conclusion drawn by a, witness from facts some of which are known to him and others assumed, or drawn from facts which, though lending probability to the Inference, d6 not evolve it by a process of absolutely necessary reasoning. More...

1. In the law of evidence, opinion is an Inference or conclusion drawn by a, witness from facts some of which are known to him and others assumed, or drawn from facts which, though lending probability to the Inference, d6 not evolve it by a process of absolutely necessary reasoning. See Lipscomb v. State, 75 Miss. 559, 23 South. 210. An inference necessarily Involving certain facts may be stated without the facts, the inference being an equivalent to a specification of the facts; but, when the facts are not necessarily involved in the inference (e. p., when the inference may be sustained upon either of several distinct phases of fact, neither of which it necessarily involves,) then the facts must be stated Whart Ev. | 510. "2. A document prepared by an attorney for his client, embodying his understanding of the law as applicable to a state of facts submitted to him for that purpose." "3. The statement by a judge or court of the decision reached in regard to a cause tried or argued before them, expounding the law as applied to the case, and detailing the reasons upon which the judgment is based. See Craig v. Bennett, 158 Ind. 9, 62 N. E. 273; Coffey v. Gamble, 117 Iowa, 545, 91 N. W. 813; Houston v. Williams, 13 Cal. 24, 73 Am. Dec. 565; State v. Ramsburg, 43 Md 333." -Concurring opinion. An opinion, separate from that which embodies the views ana decision of the majority of the court, prepared and filed by a judge who agrees in the general result of the decision, and which either reinforces the majority opinion by the expression of the particular judge's own views or reasoning, or (more commonly) voices his disapproval of the grounds of the decision or the arguments on which it was based, though approving the final result Dissenting opinion. A separate opinion in, which a particular judge announces his dissent from the conclusion held by a msjority of the court, and expounds his own views.-Per curiam opinion. One concurred in by the entire court, but expressed ap being "per curiam'* or "by the court," without disclosing the name of. "any particular judge as being its author. "Oportet qnod eerta res deducatur in donationom. It is necessary that a certain thing be brought into the gift, or made the subject of the conveyance. Bract, fol. 15b. Oportet qnod eerta res dednoatnr in jndioium. Jenk. Cent 84. A thing certain must be brought to judgment Oportet qnod eerta sit res qns" vendi-tnr. It Is necessary that there should be a certain thing which is sold. To make a valid sale, there must be certainty as to the thing which is sold. Bract fol. (51b. Oportet qnod oertss person*, terras, et eerti status oomprehendantur in deelara-tione usuum. 9 Coke, 9. It is necessary that given persons, lands, and estates should be comprehended in a declaration of uses. Less...

Lat In the civil law. To pledge. Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. To pledge. Calvin. Less...