Legal Term Dictionary

Sp. In Spanish law. Goods; property of every description, Including real as well as personal property; all things (not being persons) which may serve for the uses of man. Larkin v. U. S., 14 Fed. Gas. 1154. -Bienes comunes. Common property; those things which, not being the private property of More...

Sp. In Spanish law. Goods; property of every description, Including real as well as personal property; all things (not being persons) which may serve for the uses of man. Larkin v. U. S., 14 Fed. Gas. 1154. -Bienes comunes. Common property; those things which, not being the private property of any person, are open to the use of all, such as. the air, rain, water, the sea and its beaches. Lux v. Haggin. 39 Cal. 255, 315, 10 Pac. 707.- Bienes ganancieles. A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the property being divisible equally between them on the dissolution of the marriage; does not include what they held as their separate property at the time of contracting the marriage. Welder v. Lambert, 91 Tex. 510, 44 S. W. 281.-Bienes publicos. Those things which, as to property, pertain to the people or nation, and, as to their use, to the individuals of tbe territory or district, such as rivers, shores, ports, and public roads. Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 315, 10 Pac 707. Less...

This term, in a statute, signifies, not duration of time, but a period for the happening of an event; once in every two years. People v. Tremain, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 576; People v. Kilbourn, 68 N. Y. 479.

This term, in a statute, signifies, not duration of time, but a period for the happening of an event; once in every two years. People v. Tremain, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 576; People v. Kilbourn, 68 N. Y. 479. Less...

In English law. Property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Sugd. Vend. 495; Co. Litt 119b. In French, law. This term includes all kinds of property, real and personal. Bicns are divided into biens meubles, movable property; and biens immeubles, immovable property. The distinction between movable and More...

In English law. Property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Sugd. Vend. 495; Co. Litt 119b. In French, law. This term includes all kinds of property, real and personal. Bicns are divided into biens meubles, movable property; and biens immeubles, immovable property. The distinction between movable and immovable property is recognized by the continental jurists, and gives rise, in the civil as well as in the common law, to many important distinctions as to rights and remedies. Story, Confl. Laws, | 13, note 1. Less...

A cart or chariot drawn with two horses, coupled side to side: but it is said to be properly a cart with two wheels, sometimes drawn by one horse; and in the ancient records it is used for any cart, wain, or wagon. Jacob.

A cart or chariot drawn with two horses, coupled side to side: but it is said to be properly a cart with two wheels, sometimes drawn by one horse; and in the ancient records it is used for any cart, wain, or wagon. Jacob. Less...

In the civil law. A man who was twice married; one who at different times and successively has married two wives. 4 Inst 88. One who has two wives living. One who marries a widow. Bigamus seu trigamus, etc., est qui diversia temporibns et successive duas sen tres xores habuit. More...

In the civil law. A man who was twice married; one who at different times and successively has married two wives. 4 Inst 88. One who has two wives living. One who marries a widow. Bigamus seu trigamus, etc., est qui diversia temporibns et successive duas sen tres xores habuit. 4 Inst. 88. A blgamus or trigamus, etc., is one who at different times and successively has married two or three wives. Less...

The criminal offense of willfully and knowingly contracting a second marriage (or going through the form of a second marriage) while the first marriage, to the knowledge of the offender, is still subsisting and undissolved. Com. v. McNerny, 10 Phila. (Pa.) 207; Glse v. Com., 81 Pa. 430; Scoggins v. More...

The criminal offense of willfully and knowingly contracting a second marriage (or going through the form of a second marriage) while the first marriage, to the knowledge of the offender, is still subsisting and undissolved. Com. v. McNerny, 10 Phila. (Pa.) 207; Glse v. Com., 81 Pa. 430; Scoggins v. State, 32 Ark. 213; Cannon v. U. S-, 116 U. S. 55, 6 Sup. Ct 287, 29 L. Ed. 561. The state of a man who has two wives, or of a woman who has two husbands, living at the same time. The offense of having a plurality of wives at the same time is commonly denominated "polygamy;" but the name "bigamy" has been more frequently given to it in legal proceedings. 1 Russ. Crimes, 185. The use of the word "bigamy" to describe this offense is well established by long usage, although often criticised as a corruption of the true meaning of the word. Polygamy is suggested as the correct term, instead of bigamy, to designate the offense of having a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time, and has been adopted for that purpose in the Massachusetts statutes. But as the substance of the offense is marrying a second time, while having a lawful husband or wife living, without regard to the number of marriages that may have taken place, bigamy seems not an inappropriate term. The objection to its use urged by Black-stone (4 Bl. Comm. 163) seems to be founded not so much upon considerations of the etymology of the word as upon the propriety of distinguishing the ecclesiastical offense termed "bigamy" in the canon law, and which is defined below, from the offense known as "bigamy" in the modern criminal law. The same distinction is carefully made by Lord Coke, (4 Inst. 88.) But, the ecclesiastical offense being now obsolete, this reason for substituting polygamy to denote the crime here defined ceases to have weight. Abbott. In the canon law, the term denoted the offense committed by an ecclesiastic who married two wives successively. It might be committed either by marrying a second wife after the death of a first or by marrying a widow. Less...

An obstinate person, or one that is wedded to an opinion, in matters of religion, etc.

An obstinate person, or one that is wedded to an opinion, in matters of religion, etc. Less...

By-laws of towns; municipal laws.

By-laws of towns; municipal laws. Less...

A term used in Louisiana, derived from the French. A book in which bankers, merchants, and traders write a statement of all they owe and all that is due them; a balance-sheet See Dauphin v. Sonne, 3 Mart (N. S.) 446.

A term used in Louisiana, derived from the French. A book in which bankers, merchants, and traders write a statement of all they owe and all that is due them; a balance-sheet See Dauphin v. Sonne, 3 Mart (N. S.) 446. Less...

In English law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there to weigh the wool anciently licensed for transportation. Beg. Orig. 270.

In English law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there to weigh the wool anciently licensed for transportation. Beg. Orig. 270. Less...