Legal Term Dictionary

An inclosed seat In a church. O'Hear v. De Goesbrland, 33 Vt 606, 80 Am. Dec. 653; Trustees of Third Presbyterian Congregation v. Andruss, 21 N. J. Law, 328; Gay v. Baker, 17 Mass. 435, 9 Am. Dec 159.

An inclosed seat In a church. O'Hear v. De Goesbrland, 33 Vt 606, 80 Am. Dec. 653; Trustees of Third Presbyterian Congregation v. Andruss, 21 N. J. Law, 328; Gay v. Baker, 17 Mass. 435, 9 Am. Dec 159. Less...

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark.

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark. Less...

In medical jurisprudence. An Inflammation of the veins, which may originate in septicemia (bacterial blood-poisoning) or pycsmia (poisoning from pus), and is capable of being transmitted to other tissues, as, the brain or the muscular tissue of the heart In the latter case, an inflammation of the heart is produced More...

In medical jurisprudence. An Inflammation of the veins, which may originate in septicemia (bacterial blood-poisoning) or pycsmia (poisoning from pus), and is capable of being transmitted to other tissues, as, the brain or the muscular tissue of the heart In the latter case, an inflammation of the heart is produced which is called "endocarditis" and which may result fatally. See Succession of Bidwell, 52 La. Ann. 744, 27 South. 281. Less...

Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light Act Cong. July 13, 1866, f 9; 14 St at Large, 120.

Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light Act Cong. July 13, 1866, f 9; 14 St at Large, 120. Less...

A jailer.

A jailer. Less...

Relating or pertaining to the body, as distinguished from the mind or soul or the emotions; material, substantive, having an objective existence, as distinguished from imaginary or fictitious; real, having relation to facts, as distinguished from moral or constructive. -Physical disability. See DISABILITY.- Physical fact. In the law of evidence. More...

Relating or pertaining to the body, as distinguished from the mind or soul or the emotions; material, substantive, having an objective existence, as distinguished from imaginary or fictitious; real, having relation to facts, as distinguished from moral or constructive. -Physical disability. See DISABILITY.- Physical fact. In the law of evidence. A fact having a physical existence, as distinguished from a mere conception of the mind; one which is visible, audible, or palpable; such as the sound of a pistol shot a man running, impressions of human feet on the ground. Burrill, Circ. Bv. 130. A fact considered to have its seat in some inanimate being, or, if in an animate being, by virtue, not of the qualities by which it Is constituted animate, but of those which it has in common with the class of inanimate beings. 1 Benth. Jud. Ev. 45.-Physical force. Force applied to the body; actual violence. State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 212.-Physical incapacity. In the law of marriage and divorce, impotence, inability to accomplish sexual coition, arising from incurable physical imperfection or malformation. Anonymous, 89 Ala. 291, 7 South. 100, 7 U R. A. 425, 18 Am. St. Rep. 116; Franke v. Franke (Cal.) 31 Pac 574, 18 L. R. A. 375.-Physieal injnry. Bodily harm or hurt, excluding mental distress, fright or emotional disturbance. Deming v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 80 Mo. App. 157.-Physical necessity. A condition in which a person Is absolutely compelled to act in a particular way by overwhelming superior force; as distinguished from moral necessity, which arises where there is a duty incumbent upon a rational being to perform, which he ought at the time to perform. The Fortitude, 3 Sumn. 248, Fed. Cas. No. 4,953. Less...

A practitioner of medicine ; a person duly authorised or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 It I. 288, 43 Atl. 866, 45 I* R. A. 269; Raynor v. State, 62 Wis. 289, 22 More...

A practitioner of medicine ; a person duly authorised or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 It I. 288, 43 Atl. 866, 45 I* R. A. 269; Raynor v. State, 62 Wis. 289, 22 N. W. 430; Nelson y. State Board of Health, 108 Ky. 769, 57 8. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383. Less...

Lat A pious fraud; a subterfuge or evasion considered morally justifiable on account of the ends sought to be promoted. Particularly applied to an evasion or disregard of the laws in the interests of religion or religious institutions, such as circumventing the statutes of mortmain.

Lat A pious fraud; a subterfuge or evasion considered morally justifiable on account of the ends sought to be promoted. Particularly applied to an evasion or disregard of the laws in the interests of religion or religious institutions, such as circumventing the statutes of mortmain. Less...

An obsolete term for an enormous crime.

An obsolete term for an enormous crime. Less...

A robber; a plunderer.

A robber; a plunderer. Less...