Legal Term Dictionary

The benefit of clergy, (g. v.) Privilegium est beneficium personals, et entingnitnr onm persona. 3 Bulst. 8. A privilege is a personal benefit and dies with the person. Privilegium est quasi private leas. 2 Bulst. 189. Privilege is, as it were, a private law. Privilegium non valet contra rempub-lioam. Privilege More...

The benefit of clergy, (g. v.) Privilegium est beneficium personals, et entingnitnr onm persona. 3 Bulst. 8. A privilege is a personal benefit and dies with the person. Privilegium est quasi private leas. 2 Bulst. 189. Privilege is, as it were, a private law. Privilegium non valet contra rempub-lioam. Privilege is of no force against the commonwealth. Even necessity does not excuse, where the act to be done is against the commonwealth. Bac. Max. p. 32, in reg. 5. Less...

A qualified property in animals feres natura; i. e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others. 2 Bl. Comm. 394 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 9.

A qualified property in animals feres natura; i. e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others. 2 Bl. Comm. 394 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 9. Less...

The term "privity" means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor, the donee with the donor, and the lessee with the lessor. Union Nat. Bank v. International Bank, 123 More...

The term "privity" means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor, the donee with the donor, and the lessee with the lessor. Union Nat. Bank v. International Bank, 123 111. 510, 14 N. E. 859; Hunt v. Haven, 52 N. H. 169; Mygatt v. Coe, 124 N. Y. 212, 26 N. E. 611,11 L. R. A. 646; Strayer v. Johnson, 110 Pa. 21, 1 Aa 222; Litchfield v. Crane, 123 U. S. 549, 8 Sup. Ct 210, 31 L. Ed. 199. Privity of contract Is that connection or relationship whicfi exists between two or more contracting parties. It is essential to the maintenance of an action on any contract that there should subsist a privity between the plaintiff and defendant in respect of the matter sued on. Brown. Privity of estate is that which exists between lessor and lessee, tenant for life and remainder-man or reversioner, etc., and their respective assignees, and between joint tenants and coparceners. Privity of estate is required for a release by enlargement Sweet Privity of blood.exists between an heir and his ancestor, (privity in blood inheritable,) and between coparceners. This privity was formerly of Importance in the law of descent cast Co. Litt 271a, 242a; 2 Inst 516; 8 Coke, 426. Less...

A person who Is in privity with another. See PRIIVIES; PRIVITY. As an adjective, the word has practically the same meaning as "private." -Privy oouneiL In English* Jaw. The principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers, and other persons chosen by the king or queen as privy More...

A person who Is in privity with another. See PRIIVIES; PRIVITY. As an adjective, the word has practically the same meaning as "private." -Privy oouneiL In English* Jaw. The principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers, and other persons chosen by the king or queen as privy councillors. 2 Steph. Comm. 479, 480. The judicial committee of the privy council acts as a court of ultimate appeal in various cases.-Privy councillor. A member of the privy council.-Privy purse. In English law. The income set apart for the sovereign's personal use.-Privy seaL In English law. A seal used in making out grants or letters patent, preparatory to their passing under the great seal 2 Bl. Comm. 347.-Privy signet. In English law. The signet or seal which is first used in making out grants and letters patent, and which is always in the custody of the principal secretary of state. 2 Bl. Comm. 847.-Privy token. A false mark or sign, forged object, counterfeited letter, key, ring, etc., used to deceive persons, and thereby fraudulently get possession of property. St. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 1. A false privy token is a false private document or sign, not such as is calculated to deceive men generally, but designed to defraud one or more individuals. Cheating by such false token was not indictable at common law. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1294.-Privy verdict. In practice. A verdict given privily to the judge out of court but which was of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a public verdict given openlv in court. 3 Bl. Comm. 377. Kramer v. Kister, 187 Pa. 227, 40 Atl. 1008, 44 L. R. A. 432; Barrett v. State. 1 Wis. 175; Young v. Seymour. 4 Neb. 89; Com. v. Heller, 5 Phila. (Pa.) 123. Now generally superseded by the "sealed verdict," I. e.. one written out sealed up. and delivered to the judge or the clerk of the court. Less...

In admiralty law. A vessel or cargo, belonging to one of two belligerent powers, apprehended or forcibly captured at sea by a war-vessel or privateer of the other belligerent, and claimed as enemy's property, and therefore liable to appropriation and condemnation under the laws of war. See 1 C. Rob. More...

In admiralty law. A vessel or cargo, belonging to one of two belligerent powers, apprehended or forcibly captured at sea by a war-vessel or privateer of the other belligerent, and claimed as enemy's property, and therefore liable to appropriation and condemnation under the laws of war. See 1 C. Rob. Adm. 228. Captured property regularly condemned by the sentence of a competent prize court 1 Kent, Comm. 102. In contracts. Anything offered as a reward of contest; a reward offered to the person who, among several persons or among the public at large, shall first (or best) perform a certain undertaking or accomplish certain conditions. -Prize courts. Courts having jurisdiction to adjudicate upon captures made at "oa in time of war, and to condemn the captureo property as prize if lawfully subject to that sentence. In . England, the admiralty courts have jurisdiction as prize courts, distinct from the jurisdiction on the instance side. In America, the federal district courts have jurisdiction in cases of prize. 1 Kent, Comm. 101-103, 353-360. See Penhallow v. Doane, 3 Dall. 91, 1 L. Ed. 507 ; Maley v. Shattuck, 3 Cranch, 488, 2 U Ed. 498; Cushing v. Laird. 107 U. S. (59. 2 Sup. Ct 196, 27 L. Ed. 391.-Prize goods. Goods which are taken on the high seas, jure belli, out of the hands of the enemy: The Adeline, 9 Cranch, 244, 284, 3 L. Ed. 719. -Prise law. ? The system of laws and rules applicable to the capture of prize at sea; its condemnation, rights of the captors, distribution of the proceeds, etc. The Buena Ventura fD. C;> 87 Fed. 929.-Prise money. A dividend from the proceeds of a captured vessel, etc., paid to the captors. U. S. v. Steever, 113 U. S. 747, 5 Sup. Ct. 765, 28 L. Ed. 1133. Less...

For; in respect of; on account of; In behalf of. The introductory word of many Latin phrases.

For; in respect of; on account of; In behalf of. The introductory word of many Latin phrases. Less...

For and against. A phrase descriptive of the presentation of arguments or evidence on both sides of a disputed question.

For and against. A phrase descriptive of the presentation of arguments or evidence on both sides of a disputed question. Less...

For good and ill; for advantage and detriment

For good and ill; for advantage and detriment Less...

For the public good; for the welfare of the whole.

For the public good; for the welfare of the whole. Less...

For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr. 96.

For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr. 96. Less...