Legal Term Dictionary

L. Lat A safe pledge; called, also, "certus pleoius," a sure pledge. Bract fol. 160b.

L. Lat A safe pledge; called, also, "certus pleoius," a sure pledge. Bract fol. 160b. Less...

The word "same" does not always mean "identical," not different or other. It frequently means of the kind or species, not the specific thing. Crapo v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 487, 498.

The word "same" does not always mean "identical," not different or other. It frequently means of the kind or species, not the specific thing. Crapo v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 487, 498. Less...

In maritime law. A compensation allowed to persons by whose assistance a ship or its cargo has been saved, in whole or In part from impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, in cases of shipwreck, derelict, or recapture. 8 Kent Comm. 245. Cope r. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. More...

In maritime law. A compensation allowed to persons by whose assistance a ship or its cargo has been saved, in whole or In part from impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, in cases of shipwreck, derelict, or recapture. 8 Kent Comm. 245. Cope r. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. S. 625, 7 Sup. Ct 336, 30 L. Ed. 501; The Rita, 62 Fed. 763> 10 C. C. A. 629; The Lyman M. Law (D. C.) 122 Fed. 822; The Blackwall, 10 Wall. 11, 19 L. Ed. 870; The Spokane (D. C.) 67 Fed. 256. In the older books of the law, (and sometimes in modern writings,) the term ia also used to denote the goods or property saved. -Equitable salvage. By analogy, the term "salvage" is sometimes also used in cases which have nothing to do with maritime perils, but in which property has been preserved from loss by the last of several advances'by different persona is such a case, the person making the last advance ia frequently entitled to priority over the others, on the ground that, without his advance, the property would have been lost altogether. This right, which is sometimes called that of "equitable salvage," and is in the nature of a hen, is chiefly of importance with reference to payments made to prevent leases or policies of insurance from being forfeited, or to prevent mines and similar undertakings from being stopped or injured. See 1 Fish. Mortg. 149; 3 Gh. Div. 411; L. R. 14 Eq. 4; 7 Ch. Div. 825. -Salvage charges. This term includes all the expenses and costs incurred in the work of saving and preserving the property which was In danger. The salvage charges ultimately fall upon the insurers. Salvage loss* See Loss. -Salvage service. In maritime law. Any service rendered in saving property on the sea, or wrecked on the coast of the sea. The Emulous, 1 Sumn. 210, Fed. Cas. No. 4,480. Less...

A specimen; a small quantity of any commodity, presented for inspection or examination as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat -Sample, sale by. A sale at which only a sample of the goods sold is exhibited to the buyer.

A specimen; a small quantity of any commodity, presented for inspection or examination as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat -Sample, sale by. A sale at which only a sample of the goods sold is exhibited to the buyer. Less...

Lat In old English law. Of sound mind. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 7, ? 1.

Lat In old English law. Of sound mind. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 7, ? 1. Less...

Lat. In the civil law. That part of a law by which a penalty was ordained against those who should violate it Inst 2* 1, 10.

Lat. In the civil law. That part of a law by which a penalty was ordained against those who should violate it Inst 2* 1, 10. Less...

In the original sense of the word, a "sanction" is a penalty or punishment provided aa a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence,-a law is said to have a sanction when there Is a state which will intervene if it is disobeyed or disregarded Therefore international law More...

In the original sense of the word, a "sanction" is a penalty or punishment provided aa a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence,-a law is said to have a sanction when there Is a state which will intervene if it is disobeyed or disregarded Therefore international law has no legal sanction. Sweet In a more general sense, a "sanction" has been defined as a conditional evil annexed to a law to produce obedience to that law; and, hi a still wilder sense, a "sanction" means simply an authorization of anything. Occasionally, "sanction" is used (e. g.t in Roman law) to denote a statute, the part (penal clause) being used to denote the whole. Brown. The vindicatory part of a law, or that part which ordains or denounces a penalty for its violation. 1 Bl. Comm. 56. Less...

In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privileges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor the laws be executed.

In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privileges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor the laws be executed. Less...

In old English law. A payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, in the county of Gloucester, for liberty granted to the tenants to dig sand for their common use. Cowell.

In old English law. A payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, in the county of Gloucester, for liberty granted to the tenants to dig sand for their common use. Cowell. Less...

Of natural and normal mental condition; healthy in mind ----Sane memory. Sound mind, memory, and understanding. This is one of tbe essential elements in the capacity of contracting; and the, absence of it in lunatics and idiots, and its immaturity in infants, is the cause of their respective incapacities or More...

Of natural and normal mental condition; healthy in mind ----Sane memory. Sound mind, memory, and understanding. This is one of tbe essential elements in the capacity of contracting; and the, absence of it in lunatics and idiots, and its immaturity in infants, is the cause of their respective incapacities or partial incapacities to bind themselves. The hke circumstance is their ground of exemption in cases of crime. Brown. Less...