Legal Term Dictionary

A receiver is an indifferent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rents, issues, and profits of land, or the produce ot personal estate, or other things which it does not seem reasonable to the court that either party should do; or where a More...

A receiver is an indifferent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rents, issues, and profits of land, or the produce ot personal estate, or other things which it does not seem reasonable to the court that either party should do; or where a party is incompetent to do so, as in the case of an infant. The.remedy of the appointment of a receiver, is one of the very oldest in the court of chancery, and is founded on the inadequacy of the remedy to be obtained in tbe court of ordinary jurisdiction. Bisp. Eq. { 576. See Hay v. McDaniel, 26 Ind App. 683, 60 N. E. 729; Hale v. Hardon, 95 Fed. 773, 37 C. 0. A. 240; Wiswall v. Kunz, 173 111. 110, 50 N. E. 184; State v. iQambs, 68 Mo. 297; Nevitt v. Woodburn, 190 111. 283, 60 N. E 500; Kennedy v. Railroad Co. (C. C.) 3 Fed.. 108. One who receives money to the use of another to render an account Story, Eq. Jur. i 446. In criminal law. One who receives stolen goods from thieves, and conceals them. Cowell. This was always the prevalent sense of the word In the common as well as the civil law. -Receiver general of the duchy of Lancaster. An officer of the duchy court, who collects all the revenues, fines, forfeitures, and assessments within the duchy.-Receiver goner* al of the pnblio revenue. In English law. An officer appointed in every county to receive the taxes granted by parliament, and remit the money to the treasury.-Receiver of fines. An English officer who receives the money from persons who compound with the crown on orig-. inal writs sued out of chancery. Wharton.- Receivers and triers of petitions. The mode of receiving and trying petitions to parliament was formerly judicial rather than legislative, and the triers were committees of prelates, peers, and judges, and, latterly, of the members generally. Brown.-Receiver's certificate. A non-negotiable evidence of debt, or debenture, issued by authority of a court of chancery, as a first lien upon the property of a debtor corporation in the hands of a receiver. Beach, Kec. | 379.-Receivers of wreck. Persons appointed by the English board of trade. The duties of a receiver of wreck are to take steps for the preservation of any vessel stranded or in distress within his district; to receive and take possession of all articles washed on shore from the vessel; to use force for the suppression of plunder and disorder; to institute an examination on oath with respect to the vessel; and, if necessary, to sell the vessel, cargo, or wreck. Sweet Less...

The short, name usually given to the offense of receiving any property with the knowledge that it has been feloniously or unlawfully stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of. Sweet.

The short, name usually given to the offense of receiving any property with the knowledge that it has been feloniously or unlawfully stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of. Sweet. Less...

In old English law. Fresh suit; fresh pursuit Pursuit of a thief immediately after the discovery of the robbery. 1 BL Comm. 297.

In old English law. Fresh suit; fresh pursuit Pursuit of a thief immediately after the discovery of the robbery. 1 BL Comm. 297. Less...

in French law. A receipt setting forth the extent of the interest subscribed by a member of a mutual insurance company. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 57L

in French law. A receipt setting forth the extent of the interest subscribed by a member of a mutual insurance company. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 57L Less...

Lat In the civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to settle the differences between the parties. Dig. 4, 8; Cod. 2, 56.

Lat In the civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to settle the differences between the parties. Dig. 4, 8; Cod. 2, 56. Less...

In the practice of the courts, a recess is a short Interval or period of time during which the court suspends business, but without adjourning. See In re Gannon, 69 Cal. 541, 11 Pac. 240. In legislative practice, a recess is the 'interval, occurring in consequence of an adjournment between More...

In the practice of the courts, a recess is a short Interval or period of time during which the court suspends business, but without adjourning. See In re Gannon, 69 Cal. 541, 11 Pac. 240. In legislative practice, a recess is the 'interval, occurring in consequence of an adjournment between the sessions of the same continuous legislative body; not the interval between the final adjournment of one body and the convening ot another at the next regular session. See Tipton v. Parker, 71 Ark. 193, 74 S. W. 298. Less...

The act of ceding back; the restoration of the title and dominion of a territory* by the government which now holds it, to the government from which it was obtained by cession or otherwise. 2 White, Recop. 516.

The act of ceding back; the restoration of the title and dominion of a territory* by the government which now holds it, to the government from which it was obtained by cession or otherwise. 2 White, Recop. 516. Less...

Lat. In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea.

Lat. In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea. Less...

Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law; unwritten law; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, an ambiguity which it shares with the French "droit;* the Italian "diritto," and the English "right" On the one hand, the term "recht" answers to More...

Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law; unwritten law; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, an ambiguity which it shares with the French "droit;* the Italian "diritto," and the English "right" On the one hand, the term "recht" answers to the Roman "jus," and thus indicates law in the abstract considered as the foundation of all rights, or the complex of underlying moral principles which impart the character of justice to all positive law, or give it an ethical content. Taken in this abstract sense, the term may be an adjective, in which case it Is equivalent to the English "Just," or a noun, in which case it may be paraphrased by the expressions "justice," "morality," or "equity." On the other hand, it serves to point out a right; that is, a power, privilege, faculty, or demand, Inherent in one person, and Incident upon another. In the latter signification urecht" (or "droit," or "diritto," or "right") is the correlative of "duty" or "obligation." In the former sense, it may be considered as opposed to wrong, injustice, or the absence of law. The word "recht" baa the further ambiguity that it is used in contradistinction to "gesetz," aa "jus" is opposed to "lew," or the unwritten law to enacted law. See Daorr; Jus; RIGHT. Less...

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a relapse. Dalloz.

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a relapse. Dalloz. Less...