Legal Term Dictionary

Recurring at fixed intervals; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals of time; as periodical payments of interest on a bond.

Recurring at fixed intervals; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals of time; as periodical payments of interest on a bond. Less...

Circumlocution; use of many words to express the sense of one.

Circumlocution; use of many words to express the sense of one. Less...

To come to an end; to cease to be; to die.

To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. Less...

ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the term may embrace property liable merely to material depreciation in value from other causes than such decay. Webster v. Peck, 31 Conn. 495. -Perishable goods. Goods which decay and lose their value if More...

ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the term may embrace property liable merely to material depreciation in value from other causes than such decay. Webster v. Peck, 31 Conn. 495. -Perishable goods. Goods which decay and lose their value if not speedily put to their intended use. Per jnri snnt qnl servatis verbis jura-naenti deelpinnt anres eomm qnl aoei-pinnt. 3 Inst. 166. They are perjured, who, preserving the words of an oath, deceive the ears of those who receive it. Less...

In criminal law. The willful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, whether such evidence is given More...

In criminal law. The willful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, whether such evidence is given in open court, or in an affidavit or otherwise, such assertion being known to such witness to be false, and being intended by him to mislead the court Jury, or person holding the proceeding. 2 Whart. Crim. Law, ? 1244; Herring v. State, 119 Ga. 709, 46 S. E. 876; Beecher v. Anderson, 45 Mich. 543, 8 N. W. 539; Schmidt v. Witherick, 29 Minn. 156, 12 N. W. 448; State v. Simons, 30 Vt. 620; Miller v. State, 15 Fla. 585; Clark v. Clark, 51 N. J. Eq. 404, 26 Atl. 1012; Hood v. State, 44 Ala. 8L Perjury shall consist in willfully, knowingly, absolutely, and falsely swearing, either with or without laying the hand on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, or affirming, in a matter material to the issue or point in question, in some judicial proceeding, by a person to whom a lawful oatb or affirmation is administered. Code Ga. 1882, ? 4460. Every person who. having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose, or certhV truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any of the cases in which such an oath may by law be administered, willfully, and contrary to such oath, states as truth any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury. Pen. Code Cal. f 118. The willful giving, under oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of false testimony material to tbe issue or point of inquiry. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, $ 1015. Perjury, at common law, is the "taking of a willful false oath by one who, being lawfully sworn by a competent court to depose the truth In any judicial proceeding, swears absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the point in issue, whether he believed or not." Comm. v. Powell, 2 Mete. (Ky.) 10; Cothran v. State, 39 Miss. 541. It will be observed that, at common law, the crime of perjury can be committed only in the course of a suit or judicial proceeding.' But statutes have very generally extended both the definition and the punishment of this offense to willful false swearing in many different kinds of affidavits and depositions, such as those required to be made in tax returns, pension proceedings, transactions at the custom house, and various other administrative or non-judicial proceedings. Less...

Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in law to "temporary." -Permanent abode. A domicile or fixed home, which the party may leave as his interest or whim may dictate, but which he has no present intention of abandoning. Dale v. Irwin, 78 111. 170; Moffett v. Hill, More...

Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in law to "temporary." -Permanent abode. A domicile or fixed home, which the party may leave as his interest or whim may dictate, but which he has no present intention of abandoning. Dale v. Irwin, 78 111. 170; Moffett v. Hill, 131 111. 239, 22 N. E. 821; Berry v. Wilcox, 44 Neb. 82, 62 N. W. 249, 48 Am. St Rep. 706.-Permanent building and loan association. One which issues its stock, not all at once or in series, but at any time when application is made therefor. Cook v. Equitable B. & L. Ass'n, 104 Ga. 814, 30 S. E. 911. As to permanent "Alimony," "Injunction" and "Trespass," see those titles. Less...

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful. Less...

Negations of law, arising either from the law's silence or its express declaration. Ruth. Inst b. 1, c. 1.

Negations of law, arising either from the law's silence or its express declaration. Ruth. Inst b. 1, c. 1. Less...

Allowed; allowable; that which may be done. -Permissive use. See USE.-Permissive waste. See WASTE.

Allowed; allowable; that which may be done. -Permissive use. See USE.-Permissive waste. See WASTE. Less...

A license or instrument granted by the officers of excise, (or customs,) certifying that the duties on certain goods have been paid, or secured, and permitting their removal from some specified place to another. Wharton. A written license or warrant, Issued by a person in authority, empowering the grantee to More...

A license or instrument granted by the officers of excise, (or customs,) certifying that the duties on certain goods have been paid, or secured, and permitting their removal from some specified place to another. Wharton. A written license or warrant, Issued by a person in authority, empowering the grantee to do some act not forbidden by law, but not allowable without such authority. Less...