Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form.

Lat In Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form. Less...

in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator formally calls upon the persons present to Dear Witness that he has declared his will. Williams! Ex'rs, 116; Browne, Prob. Pr. 59.

in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator formally calls upon the persons present to Dear Witness that he has declared his will. Williams! Ex'rs, 116; Browne, Prob. Pr. 59. Less...

In English ecclesiastical law. The second week before Whitsunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called "Rogation days," because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of Holy Thursday. Wharton. Rogationes, qnesstiones, More...

In English ecclesiastical law. The second week before Whitsunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called "Rogation days," because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of Holy Thursday. Wharton. Rogationes, qnesstiones, et positioned debent esse simplioes. nob. 143. Demands, questions, and claims ought to be simple. Less...

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation.

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation. Less...

A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. See LETTER.

A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. See LETTER. Less...

Lat In Roman law. 1 ask; I request. A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14.

Lat In Roman law. 1 ask; I request. A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14. Less...

In English criminal law. An Idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 169.

In English criminal law. An Idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 169. Less...

In French' mercantile law. The list of a ship's crew; a muster roll.

In French' mercantile law. The list of a ship's crew; a muster roll. Less...

The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a railroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. See Beardsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 635; Ohio A M. R. Co. v", Weber, 96 Bl. 448; Pittsburgh, etc., R. Oo. v. Backus, More...

The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a railroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. See Beardsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 635; Ohio A M. R. Co. v", Weber, 96 Bl. 448; Pittsburgh, etc., R. Oo. v. Backus, 154 U. S. 421, 14 Sup. Ct 1114, 38 L. Ed. 1031. -Rolling stock protection aot. like act of 35 & 36 Vict c. 50, passed to protect the rolling stock of railways from distress or sale in certain cases. Less...

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are entered. Thus, in English practice, the roll of parchment on which the issue is entered is termed the More...

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are entered. Thus, in English practice, the roll of parchment on which the issue is entered is termed the "issue roll." So the rolls of a manor, wherein the names, rents, and services of the tenants are copied and enrolled, are termed the "court rolls." There are also various other rolls; as those which contain the records of the court of chancery, those which contain the registers of the proceedings of old parliaments, called "rolls of parliament," etc. Brown. In English practice, there were formerly a great variety of these rolls, appropriated to the different proceedings; such as the warrant of attorney roll, the process roll, the recognizance roll, the imparlance roll, the plea roll, the issue roll, the judgment roll, the scire facias roll, and the roll of proceedings on writs of error. 2 Tidd, Pr. 729, 730. In modern practice, the term is sometimes used to denote a record of the proceedings of a court, or public office. Thus, the "judgment roll" is the file of records comprising the pleadings in a case, and all the other proceedings up to the judgment, arranged In order. In this sense the use of the word has survived its appropriateness; for such records are no longer prepared In the form of a roll. -*Assessment roU. In taxation, the list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors. Bank v. Genoa, 28 Misc. Rep. 71, 59 N. Y. Supp. 829; Adams v. Brennan, 72 Miss. 894, 18 South. 482.-Judgment roll. See supra.- Master of tbe rolls. See MASTER.-Rolls of parliament. The manuscript registers of the proceedings of old parliaments; in these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of difficult points of law, which were frequently, in former times, referred to the determination of this supreme court by the judges of both benches, etc.-Rolls of tbe exchequer. There are several in this court relating to the revenue of the country.-Rolls of tbe temple. In English law. In each of the two Temples is a roil called the "calves-head roll," wherein every bencher, barrister, and student is taxed yearly; also meals to the cook and other officers of die houses, in consideration of a dinner of calves-head, provided in Easter term. Orig. Jur. 199. -Re lis office of tbe chancery. In English law. An office in Chancery Lane. London, which contains rolls and records or the high court of chancery, the master whereof is the second person in the chancery, etc. The rolls court was there held, the master of the rolls sitting as judge; and that judge still sits there as a judge of the chancery division of the high court of justice. Wharton.-Tax roU. A schedule or list of the persons and property subject to the payment of a particular tax, with the amounts severally due, prepared and 'authenticated in proper form to warrant the collecting officers to proceed with the enforcement of the tax. Babcock v. Beaver Creek Tp., 64 Mich. 601, 31 N. W. 423; Smith v. Scully, 66 Kan. 139, 71 Pac. 249. Less...