Legal Term Dictionary

In English law. A statute made, touching matters and causes of the forest, 33 & 84 Edw.

In English law. A statute made, touching matters and causes of the forest, 33 & 84 Edw. Less...

Lat The law of procedure, as distinguished from the substantial part of the law. Ordinarlns ita dieitar quia habet or-dinar!am jnrisdietionem, ia jure proprio, et non propter depntationent. Co. Litt 96. The ordinary is so called because he has an ordinary jurisdiction in his own right, and not a deputed More...

Lat The law of procedure, as distinguished from the substantial part of the law. Ordinarlns ita dieitar quia habet or-dinar!am jnrisdietionem, ia jure proprio, et non propter depntationent. Co. Litt 96. The ordinary is so called because he has an ordinary jurisdiction in his own right, and not a deputed one. Less...

n. At common law. One who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction In causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge having judicial power; More...

n. At common law. One who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction In causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge having judicial power; an archdeacon; officer of the royal household. Wharton. In American law. A judicial officer, in several of the states, clothed by statute with powers In regard to wills, probate, administration, guardianship, etc. In Scotch law. A single judge of the court of session, who decides with or without a jury, as the case may be. Brande. In the civil law. A judge who has authority to take cognizance of causes in his own right, and not by deputation. Murden i. Beath, 1 Mill, Const. (S. C.) 269. -Ordinary of Newgate. The clergyman who is attendant upon condemned malefactors in that prison .to prepare them for death; he records the behavior of such persons. Formerly it was the custom of the ordinary to publish a small pamphlet upon the execution of any remarkable criminal. Wharton.-Ordinary of assise and sessions. In old English law. A deputy of the bishop of the diocese, anciently appointed to give malefactors their neck-verses, and judge whether they read or not; also to perform divine services for them, and assist in preparing them for death. Wharton. Less...

adj. Regular; usual; common; not characterized by peculiar or unusual circumstances; belonging to, exercised by, or characteristic of, the normal or average individual. See Zulich v. Bowman, 42 Pa. 83; Chicago & A. R. Co. v. House, 172 111. 601, 50 N. E. 151; Jones v. Angell, 95 Ind. 376. More...

adj. Regular; usual; common; not characterized by peculiar or unusual circumstances; belonging to, exercised by, or characteristic of, the normal or average individual. See Zulich v. Bowman, 42 Pa. 83; Chicago & A. R. Co. v. House, 172 111. 601, 50 N. E. 151; Jones v. Angell, 95 Ind. 376. -Ordinary conveyances. Those deeds of transfer which are entered into between two or more persons, without an assurance in a superior court of justice. Wharton.-Ordinary oonrso of business. The transaction of business according to the usages and customs of the commercial world generally or of the particular community or (in some cases) of the particular individual whose acts are under consideration. See Rison v. Knapp, 20 Fed. Cas. 835; Christianson v. Farmers' Warehouse Ass'n, 5 N. D. 438, 67 N. W. 300, 32 L. R. A. 730; In re Dibblee, 7 Fed. Cas. 654.-Ordinary repairs. Such as are necessary to make good the usual wear and tear or natural and unavoidable decay and keep the property in good condition. See Abell v. Brady, 79 Md. 94, 28 Atl. 817; Brenn v. Troy, 60 Barb. (N. Y.) 421; Clark Civil Tp. v. Brookshire, 114 Ind. 437, 16 N. E. 132.-Ordinary seaman. A sailor who is capable of performing the ordinary or routine duties of a seaman, but who is not yet so proficient in the knowledge and practice of all the various duties of a sailor at sea as to be rated as an "able" seaman.-Ordinary skill in an art, means that degree of skill which men engaged in that particular art usually employ; not that which belongs to a few men only, of extraordinary endowments and capacities. Baltimore Baseball Club Co. v. Pickett, 78 Md. 375, 28 Atl. 279, 22 L. R. A. 690. 44 Am. St Rep. 304; Waugh v. Shunk, 20 Pa. 130. As to ordinary "Care," "Diligence," "Negligence," see those titles. Less...

is the ceremony by which a bishop confers on a person the privileges and powers necessary for the execution of sacerdotal functions in the church. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 110.

is the ceremony by which a bishop confers on a person the privileges and powers necessary for the execution of sacerdotal functions in the church. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 110. Less...

A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. Orig. 189.

A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. Orig. 189. Less...

In old practice. It is ordered. The initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin. Ordine plaeltandi servato, aerratnr et jns. When the order of pleading is observed, the law also is observed. Co. Litt 303a; Broom, Max. 188.

In old practice. It is ordered. The initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin. Ordine plaeltandi servato, aerratnr et jns. When the order of pleading is observed, the law also is observed. Co. Litt 303a; Broom, Max. 188. Less...

A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order.

A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order. Less...

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called "or dines majores;" and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte were called "ordines minores" Persons ordained to the More...

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called "or dines majores;" and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte were called "ordines minores" Persons ordained to the ordines minores had their prima tonsura, different from the tonsura clericalis. Cowell. Less...

Lat In the civil law. The benefit or privilege of order; the privilege which a surety for a debtor had of requiring that his principal should be discussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, before the creditor could resort to him. Nov. 4, c. 1; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 21, 883.

Lat In the civil law. The benefit or privilege of order; the privilege which a surety for a debtor had of requiring that his principal should be discussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, before the creditor could resort to him. Nov. 4, c. 1; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 21, 883. Less...