Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin. Less...

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168.

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168. Less...

A highway; an open way or public passage; a line of travel or communication extending from one town or place to an-( other; a strip of land appropriated and nsed for 'purposes of travel and communication between different places. See Stokes V. Scott County, 10. Iowa, 176; Com. v. Gammons,. More...

A highway; an open way or public passage; a line of travel or communication extending from one town or place to an-( other; a strip of land appropriated and nsed for 'purposes of travel and communication between different places. See Stokes V. Scott County, 10. Iowa, 176; Com. v. Gammons,. 23 Pick. (Mass.) 202; Hutson v. New York, 5 Sandf. (N. Y.) 312; Stedman v. South-bridge, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 164; Horner v. State, 40 Md. 288; Northwestern Tel. Exch. Co. T; Minneapolis, 81 Minn. 140, 86 N. W. 69, 68 L. It A. 176; Hart v.. Town of Red Cedar, 63 Wis. 634, 24 N. W. 410. In maritime law. An open passage Of the sea that receives its denomination commonly from some part adjacent, which, though it He out at sea, yet, in respect of the situation of the land adjacent, and the depth and wideness of the place, is a safe place for the common riding or anchoring of ships; as Dover road, Klrkley road, etc. Hale de Jure Mar. pt 2, c. 2. -law of tne road. See LAW.-Private road. This term has various meanings: (1) A road, the soil of which belongs to tbe owner of the land which it traverses, but which is burdened with a right of way. Morgan v. Livingston, 6 Mart O. S. (La.) 231. (2) A neighborhood wav, not commonly used by others than the people of the neighborhood, though it may be used by any one having occasion. State v. Mobley, 1 McMul. (S. C.) 44. (3) A road intended for the use of one or more private in* dividuals, and not wanted nor intended for general public use, which may be opened across the lands of other persons by statutory authority in some states. Witham v. Osburn, 4 Or. 318, .18 Am. Rep. 287; Sherman v. Buick, 32 Cal. 252, 91 Am. Dec. 577; Madera County v. Raymond Granite Co., 139 Cal. 128, 72 Pac 915. (4) A road which is only open for the benefit of certain individuals to go from and to their homes for the service of their lands and for the use of some estates exclusively. Civ. Code La, 1900, art. 706.-PnbUo road. A highway; a road or way established and adopted (or accepted as a dedication) by the proper authorities for tbe use of the general public, and over which every person has a right to pass and to use it for all purposes of travel or transportation to which it is adapted and devoted. Cincinnati It Co. v. Com., 80 Ky. 138: Shelby County v. Castetter, 7 Ind. App. 309, 33 N.E.986; Abbott v.Duluth (C. C.) 104 Fed. 837; Heninger v.Peery, 102Va. 896,47 S. E. 1013.-Road districts. Public or quasi municipal corporations organised or authorized by statutory authority in many of the states for the special purpose of establishing, maintaining, and caring for public roads and highways within their limits, sometimes invested with powers of local taxation, and generally having elective officers styled "overseers" or ''commissioners" of roads. See Farmer v. Myles, 106 La. 333, 30 South. 858; San Bernardino County v. Southern Pac R. Co., 137 Cal. 659, 70 Pac. 782; Madden v. Lancaster County, 65 Fed. 191, 12 C. C. A. 566.-Road tax. A tax for the maintenance and repair of the public roads within the particular jurisdiction, levied either in money or in the form of so many days' labor on the public roads exacted of all the inhabitants of the district. See Lewin v. State, 77 Ala. 46. Less...

In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and hot any spot where an anchor swill find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 232.

In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and hot any spot where an anchor swill find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 232. Less...

Iu old English law. A robber. Robbatores et buralatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fol. 115b.

Iu old English law. A robber. Robbatores et buralatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fol. 115b. Less...

One who commits a robbery. The term is not in law. synonymous with "thief," but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Roths?* child T. Royal Mail. Steam Packet Co" X Exch. 742; The Manitoba (D. C.) 104 Fed,. 16L

One who commits a robbery. The term is not in law. synonymous with "thief," but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Roths?* child T. Royal Mail. Steam Packet Co" X Exch. 742; The Manitoba (D. C.) 104 Fed,. 16L Less...

Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian "roba" had the same meaning.

Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian "roba" had the same meaning. Less...

In old English law. Persons who, in the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said to have been the followers of Robert Hood, or Robin Hood. 4 Bl. Comm. 246. ROD. A lineal measure of sixteen feet and a half, otherwise called More...

In old English law. Persons who, in the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said to have been the followers of Robert Hood, or Robin Hood. 4 Bl. Comm. 246. ROD. A lineal measure of sixteen feet and a half, otherwise called a "perch." ROD KNIGHTS. In feudal law. Certain servitors who held their land by serving their lords on horseback. Cowell Less...

Lat. In Roman law. To ask Or solicit. Rogare legem, to ask for the adoption of a law, i. e. to propose it for enactment, to bring in a bill. In a derivative sense, to vote for a law so proposed; to adopt or enact it.

Lat. In Roman law. To ask Or solicit. Rogare legem, to ask for the adoption of a law, i. e. to propose it for enactment, to bring in a bill. In a derivative sense, to vote for a law so proposed; to adopt or enact it. Less...

Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from bis person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. Pen. Code Cal. $.211; I Hawk. P. C. 25; 4 Bl. Comm. 243; United States v. Jones, 3 Wash. G. More...

Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from bis person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. Pen. Code Cal. $.211; I Hawk. P. C. 25; 4 Bl. Comm. 243; United States v. Jones, 3 Wash. G. C. 209, Fed. Cas. No. 10,494; Seymour v. State, 15 Ind" 288,% McDaniel v. State, 16 Miss. 401, 47 Am. Dec 93. - Robbery is the wrongful, fraudulent, and violent taking of money, goods, or chattels* from the person of another by force, or inr timidatlon, without the consent of ti*e owner. Code Ga. 1882, ? 4389. Bobbery is where a person, either with violence or with threats of injury, and putting the person robbed in fear, takes and carries away a thing which is on the body, or in the immediate presence, of tbe person from whom It is taken, under such circum* stances that, in the absence of violence or threats, the act committed would be a theft Steph. Crim. Dig. 208; 2 Russ. Crimes, 78. And see, further, State v. Osborne, 116 Iowa, 479, 89 N. W. 1077 ; In re Coffey, 128 Cal. 622, 56 Pac. 448; Matthews v. State, 4 Ohio St 540; Benson v. McMahon, 127 U.. S. 457, 8 Sup. Ct. 1240, 32 L. Ed. 234* State v. McGihnis, 158 Mo. 105, 59 S. W. 83; State v. Burke, 73 N. 0. 87;, Reardon v. State, 4 Tex. App. 610; Houston v. Com.^ 87 Va. 257, 12 S. E. 385; Thomas v. State, 91 Ala. 34, 9 South. 81; Hickey v. State, 23 Ind. 22. -Highway robbery. In criminal law. The crime of robbery committed upon or near a public highway. State v. Brown, 113 N. C. 645, 18 S. E. 51. In England, by St 23 Hen. VIII. c. 1, this was made felony without benefit of clergy, while, robbery committed elsewhere was less severely punished. Less...