Legal Term Dictionary

In old Scotch law. A thief-taker.

In old Scotch law. A thief-taker. Less...

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the.head,.shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the.head,.shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman. Less...

In old English law. A being shaven; the having the. bead shaven; a shaven head. 4 Bl. Comm. 367.

In old English law. A being shaven; the having the. bead shaven; a shaven head. 4 Bl. Comm. 367. Less...

In French law. A species of association or partnership formed among persons who are in receipt of perpetual or life annuities, with the agreement that the shares or annuities of those who die' shall accrue to the survivors. This plan is said to be thus named froni Tonti, an Italian, More...

In French law. A species of association or partnership formed among persons who are in receipt of perpetual or life annuities, with the agreement that the shares or annuities of those who die' shall accrue to the survivors. This plan is said to be thus named froni Tonti, an Italian, who invented It in the seventeenth' century. The principle is used in some forms of life insurance., Merl. Repert Less...

In criminal pleading. Technical words necessary in an indictment for simple larceny.

In criminal pleading. Technical words necessary in an indictment for simple larceny. Less...

The usual meaning of the word 'tool' is "an instrument of manual operation ;" that is, an instrument to be used and managed by the hand instead of being moved and controlled by machinery. Lovewell v; Westchester F. Ins. Co., 124 Mass. 420, 26 Am, Rep. 671.

The usual meaning of the word 'tool' is "an instrument of manual operation ;" that is, an instrument to be used and managed by the hand instead of being moved and controlled by machinery. Lovewell v; Westchester F. Ins. Co., 124 Mass. 420, 26 Am, Rep. 671. Less...

In Scotch law. An annual rent out of a house built in a burgh. Whishaw. A duty which, from the act 1551, c. 30, appears to have been due from certain lands in Edinburgh, the nature of which is not now known. Bell.

In Scotch law. An annual rent out of a house built in a burgh. Whishaw. A duty which, from the act 1551, c. 30, appears to have been due from certain lands in Edinburgh, the nature of which is not now known. Bell. Less...

Wrong; injury; the opposite of right. So called, according to Lord Coke, because it is wrested or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight Co* Litt 1586. In modern practice, tort is constantly used as an English word to denote a wrong or wrongful act for which More...

Wrong; injury; the opposite of right. So called, according to Lord Coke, because it is wrested or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight Co* Litt 1586. In modern practice, tort is constantly used as an English word to denote a wrong or wrongful act for which an action will lie, as, distinguished from a contract. 3 Bl. Comm."117. A tort is a . legal wrong committed upon the person or property independent of conn tract. It may be either (1) a direct invasion of some legal right of the individual; the infraction of some public duty by which i special damage accrues to the individual; the violation of some private obligation by* which like damage accrues to the individual. In the former case, no special damage Is necessary to entitle the party to reeover. Inv the two latter cases, such damage is necessary.) Code Ga. 1882, { 2951. And see Hayes v. Insurance Co., 125 111. 626, 18 N. E. 322}H L. R. A. 303; Railway Co. v. Hennegan, 33 Tex.-$!v. App/ 314; 76 S. W. 453; Mumford v. Wright, 12 Colo. App. 214, 55 Pac. 744 ji Tomlin v. Hildreth, 65 N. J. Law, 438, 47 Atl. 649; Merrill v. St Louis, 83 M6/25&Y53 Am. Rep. 576; Denning v. State, -128 Cate 316, 55 Pac, 1000; Shirk v. Mitchell, 13P Ind. 185, 36 N. E. 850; Western Union TetJ Oo. v. Taylor, 84 Ga. 408, 11 S. E. 396, 8 U R. A. 189; Rich v. Railroad Co., 8? N. 390. -Maritime tort. See MARITIME personal tort. One involving or consisting in an injujqy. to the person or to the reputation or 'feelings' as distinguished from 'an injury or damage to real or personal property, called a "property tort." See Mumford v. Wright 12 CoJo* APP; 214, 55 Pac. 744.-Quasi tort, though not a recognized term of English law, may be conveniently used in those cases where a man who bas not committed a tort is liable as if he had." Thus, a master is liable for wrongful acts done' by his servant in the course of his employment.1 Broom, Com. Law, 090; Underh. Torts, 29. Less...

A wrong-doer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort '

A wrong-doer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort ' Less...

Wrongful; of the nature of a tort Formerly certain modes of conveyance (c. p., feoffments, fines, etc.) bafl the effect of passing not merely the estate of the person making the conveyance, but the whole fee-simple, to the injury of the person really entitled to the fee; and they were More...

Wrongful; of the nature of a tort Formerly certain modes of conveyance (c. p., feoffments, fines, etc.) bafl the effect of passing not merely the estate of the person making the conveyance, but the whole fee-simple, to the injury of the person really entitled to the fee; and they were hence .call; ed "tortious conveyances*" Litt ? 611; Co* Litt. 2715, n. 1; 330b, n. 1. But this operation has been taken away. Sweet. Tortnra legum pessima. The torture or wresting of laws is the worst {kind * of torture.] 4 JBa con's .Works, 434. Less...