Legal Term Dictionary

An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, hearing a particular device, printed and sold More...

An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, hearing a particular device, printed and sold by the government, and required to be attached to mall-matter, and to some other articles subject to duty or excise. --Stamp Act. In English law. Acts regulating the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agreements, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes, letters, receipts, and other papers.-Stamp duties. Duties imposed upon and raised from stamps upon parchment and paper, and forming a branch of the perpetual revenue of the king* dom. 1 Bl. Comm. 323. Less...

In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their Journey. 7 ?eliv App. Cas. 53, $7, 58.

In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their Journey. 7 ?eliv App. Cas. 53, $7, 58. Less...

To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. To appear in court. -Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on. the drawing of a jury for a criminal More...

To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. To appear in court. -Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on. the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer nuts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being required to challenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, and the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evading its provisions. A similar practice is in use in Pennsylvania. See Warren v. Com., 37 Pa. 54: Zell v. Com., 94 Pa. 272; Haines v. Com.. 100 Pa. 322. But in Missouri, it is said that the words "stand aside" are the usual formula, used in impaneling a jury, for rejecting a juror. State v. Hultz, 106 Mo. 41, 16 S. W. 940. -Standing by is used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not the mere fact of "standing by," that lays the foundation of responsibility. The phrase does not import an actual presence, "but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render ft the duty of the possessor to communicate it." Anderson v. Hubble, 93 Ind. 573, 47 Am. Rep. -394; Gatling v. Rodman, 6 Ind. 292; Richardson v. Chickering, 41 N. H. 380, 77 Am. Dec. 769; Morrison v. Morrison, 2 Dana (Ky.) 16. -Standing mnte. A prisoner, arraigned for treason or felony, was said to "stand mute," when he refused to plead, or answered foreijrn to the purpose, or, after a plea of not guilty, would not put himself upon the country.- Standing orders are rules and forms regulating the procedure of the two houses of parliament, each having its own. They are of equal force in every parliament, except so far as tbey are altered or suspended from time to time. Cox, Inst. 136; May, Pari. Pr. 185.-Standing seised to uses. A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate covenants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in consideration of blood or marriage. It is a species of conveyance depending for its effect on the statute of uses. Less...

An ensign or flag used in war.

An ensign or flag used in war. Less...

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond.

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. Less...

In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. "Starboard tack," the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. Burrows v. Gower (D. C.) 119 Fed. 617.

In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. "Starboard tack," the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. Burrows v. Gower (D. C.) 119 Fed. 617. Less...

A district which includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. -Stannary courts. Courts in Devonshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These More...

A district which includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. -Stannary courts. Courts in Devonshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These courts were held before the lord warden and his deputies by- virtue of a privilege granted to the workers of the tin-mines there, to sue and be sued in their own courts only, in order that they might not be drawn away from their business by having to attend law-suits in distant courts. Brown. Less...

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 303. In international law. The right of staple, as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be More...

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 303. In international law. The right of staple, as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be that they may not allow them to set their merchandises and wares to sale but in a certain place. This practice is not in use in the United States. l.Chit. Com. Law, 103. -Staple Inn. An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY. -Statu.te-ataple. In English law. A security for a debt acknowledged to be due, so called from its being entered into before the mayor of the staple, that is to say, the grand mart for the principal commodities or manufactures of the kingdom, formerly held by act of parliament in certain trading towns. In other respects it resembled the statute-merchant, (a. v.,) but like that has now fallen into disuse. 2 Bl. Comm. 100; 1 Steph. Comm. 287. Less...

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, combination of maintenance, or overawing influence that no inferior court would find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council,' the common-law judges, and More...

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, combination of maintenance, or overawing influence that no inferior court would find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council,' the common-law judges, and (it seems) all peers of parliament. In the reign of Henry VIII. and his successors, the jurisdiction of the court was illegally extended to such a degree (especially in punishing disobedience to the king's arbitrary proclamations) that it became odious to the nation, and was abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 310; Sweet. Less...

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477.

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477. Less...