Legal Term Dictionary

In feudal law. Conquest; acquisition by purchase; any method of acquiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance. In international law. The acquisition of the sovereignty of a country by force of arms, exercised by an Independent power which reduces More...

In feudal law. Conquest; acquisition by purchase; any method of acquiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance. In international law. The acquisition of the sovereignty of a country by force of arms, exercised by an Independent power which reduces the vanquished to the submission of its empire. Cast ill ero v. U. S., 2 Black, 109, 17 L. Ed. 360. In Scotch law. Purchase. Bell. Less...

Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy.

Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy. Less...

In French law. The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community. Thus, whatever is acquired by the husband and wife, either by his or her industry or good fortune, inures to the extent of one-half for the benefit of More...

In French law. The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community. Thus, whatever is acquired by the husband and wife, either by his or her industry or good fortune, inures to the extent of one-half for the benefit of the other. Merl. Repert. "Conquto." Picotte v. Cooley, 10 Mo. 312. Less...

In feudal and old English law. Acquisition. 2 BL Comm. 242.

In feudal and old English law. Acquisition. 2 BL Comm. 242. Less...

In feudal law. A purchaser, acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 248.

In feudal law. A purchaser, acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 248. Less...

Lat. A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock. —Consanguineus frater. In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father's side, as distinguished from frater uterinu*, a brother by the mother's side. Consanguineus est quasi eodom ¦an* guine natus. Co. Litt 157. A person More...

Lat. A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock. —Consanguineus frater. In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father's side, as distinguished from frater uterinu*, a brother by the mother's side. Consanguineus est quasi eodom ¦an* guine natus. Co. Litt 157. A person related by consanguinity is, as it were, sprung from the same blood. Less...

Kinship; blood relationship ; the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 202; Blodget v. Brinsmaid, 9 Vt 30; State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605; Tepper v. Supreme Council, 59 N. J. Eq. 321, 45 Atl. IU; More...

Kinship; blood relationship ; the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 202; Blodget v. Brinsmaid, 9 Vt 30; State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605; Tepper v. Supreme Council, 59 N. J. Eq. 321, 45 Atl. IU; Rector v. Drury, 8 Pin. (Wis.) 298. Lineal and collateral consanguinity. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other, as between son, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between son, grandson, great-grandson,, and so downwards in the direct descending line. Collateral consanguinity is that which subsists between persons who have the same ancestors, •but who do not descend (or ascend) one from the other. Thus, father and son are related by lineal consanguinity, uncle and nephew by collateral consanguinity. 2 Bl. Comm. 203; McDowell v. Addams, 45 Pa. 432; State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605: Brown v. Bars boo. 90 Wis. 151, 62 N. W. 921, 30 L. R. A. 320. "Affinity" distinguished. Consanguinity, denoting blood relationship, is distinguished from "affinity," which is the connection existing in consequence of a marriage, between each of the married persons and the kindred of the other. Tegarden v. Phillips, 14 Ind. App. 27, 42 N. E. 549; Carman v. Newell. 1 Denio (N. Y.) 25; Spear v. Robinson, 29 Me. 545. Less...

The moral sense; the faculty of Judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right aud wrong; particularly applied to one's perception and judgment of the moral qualities of his own conduct, but in a wider sense, de- noting a similar application of the standards of morality to More...

The moral sense; the faculty of Judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right aud wrong; particularly applied to one's perception and judgment of the moral qualities of his own conduct, but in a wider sense, de- noting a similar application of the standards of morality to the acts of others. In law, especially the moral rule which requires probity, justice, and honest dealing between man and man, as when we say that a bargain is "against conscience" or "unconscionable," or that the price paid for property at a forced sale was so inadequate as to "shock the conscience." This is also the meaning of the term as applied to the jurisdiction and principles of decision of courts of chancery, as in saying that such a court is a "court of conscience," that it proceeds "according to conscience," or that it has cognizance of "matters of conscience." See 3 Bl. Comm. 47-56; People v. Stewart, 7 Cal. 143; Miller v. Miller, 187 Pa. 572, 41 Atl. 277. —Conscientious scruple. A conscientious scruple against taking an oath, serving as a juror in a capital case, doing military duty, or the like, is an objection or repugnance growing out of the fact that the person believes the thing demanded of him to be morally wrong, his conscience being the sole guide to his decision; it is thus distinguished from an "objection on principle," which is dictated by the reason and judgment, rather than the moral sense, and may relate only to the propriety or expediency of the thing in question. People v. Stewart, 7 Cal. 143.—"Conscience of the court." When an issue is sent out of chancery to be tried at law, to "inform the conscience of the court," the meaning is that the court is to be supplied with exact and dependable information as to the unsettled or disputed questions of fact in the case, in order that it may proceed to decide it in accordance with the principles of eqnity and good conscience in the light of the facts thus determined. See Watt v. Starke, 101 U. S. 252, 25 Li Ed. 826.—Conscience, courts of. Courts, not of record, constituted by act of parliament in the city of London, and other towns, for the recovery of small debts; otherwise and more commonly called "Courts of Requests." 3 Steph. Comm. 451.—Conscience* rifght of. As used in some constitutional provisions, this phrase Is equivalent to religious liberty or freedom of conscience. Com. v. Leaner, 17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 155; State v. Cummings, 36 Mo. 263. Conscientia dicltur a con ot solo, quasi scire cum Deo. 1 Coke, 100. Conscience is called from con and scio, to know, as it were, with God. Less...

In Scotch law. Knowledge of another's property ; knowledge that a thing is not one's own, but belongs to another. He who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with "violent profits."

In Scotch law. Knowledge of another's property ; knowledge that a thing is not one's own, but belongs to another. He who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with "violent profits." Less...

Drafting into the military service of the state; compulsory service falling upon all male subjects evenly, within or under certain specified ages. Kneedler Lane, 45 Pa. 267.

Drafting into the military service of the state; compulsory service falling upon all male subjects evenly, within or under certain specified ages. Kneedler Lane, 45 Pa. 267. Less...