Legal Term Dictionary

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: "For each city of the state, there shall be a court called a 'corporation court,' to be held by a judge, with like qualifications and elected in the same manner as judges of the county court." Code Va. 1887, § 3050.

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: "For each city of the state, there shall be a court called a 'corporation court,' to be held by a judge, with like qualifications and elected in the same manner as judges of the county court." Code Va. 1887, § 3050. Less...

A member of a corporation aggregate. Grant Corp. 48.

A member of a corporation aggregate. Grant Corp. 48. Less...

Lat. By the body and by the mind; by the physical act and by the mental intent Dig. 41, 2, 3.

Lat. By the body and by the mind; by the physical act and by the mental intent Dig. 41, 2, 3. Less...

A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence; perceptible by the senses of sight and touch; possessing a real body. Opposed to Incorporeal and spiritual. Civ. Code La. 1900, art 460; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692. There is a distinction between "corporeal" More...

A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence; perceptible by the senses of sight and touch; possessing a real body. Opposed to Incorporeal and spiritual. Civ. Code La. 1900, art 460; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692. There is a distinction between "corporeal" and "corporal." The former term means "possessing a body," that is, tangible, physical, material; the latter, means "relating to or affecting a body," that is, bodily, external. Corporeal denotes the nature or physical existence of a body; corporal denotes its exterior or the co-ordination of ft with some other body. Hence we speak of "corporeal hereditaments," but of "corporal punishment" "corporal touch," "corporal oath," etc. —Corporeal hereditaments. See HEBEDIT-. AMENTS.—Corporeal property. Such as affects the senses, and may be seen and handled by the body, as opposed to incorporeal property, which cannot be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation. Thus a house is corporeal, but the annual rent payable for its occupation is incorporeal. Corporeal property is, if movable, capable of manual transfer; if immovable, possession of it may be delivered up. But incorporeal property cannot be so transferred, but some other means must be adopted for its transfer, of which the most usual is an instrument in writing. Mozley A Whitley. Less...

In international law. Ambassadors and diplomatic persons at any court or capital.

In international law. Ambassadors and diplomatic persons at any court or capital. Less...

The dead body of a human being.

The dead body of a human being. Less...

(Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles;) physical substance, as distinguished from Intellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or income, A substantial or positive fact, as distinguished from what is equivocal and ambiguous. The corpus delicti (body of an More...

(Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles;) physical substance, as distinguished from Intellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or income, A substantial or positive fact, as distinguished from what is equivocal and ambiguous. The corpus delicti (body of an offense) is the fact of its having been actually committed. Best, Pres. 269-279. A corporeal act of any kind, (as distinguished from animus or mere intention,) on the part of him who wishes to acquire a thing, whereby he obtains the physical ability to exercise his power over It whenever he pleases. The word /occurs frequently in this sense in the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, I 248. —Corpus comitatus. The body of a county. The whole county, as distinguished from a part of it, or any particular place in it. U. S. v. Grosh, 5 Mason, 290, Fed. Cas. No. 15,268.— Corpus oorporatum. A corporation; a corporate body, other than municipal.—Corpus cum oausa. (The body with the cause.) An English writ which issued out of chancery, to remove both the body and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgment for debt, into the king's bench, there to remain until he satisfied the judgment. Co-well; Blount.—Corpus delicti. The body of a crime. The body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committed, e. g.t the corpse of a murdered man, the charred remains of a house, burned down. In a derivative sense, the substance or foundation of a crime; the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. People v. Dick, 37 Cal. 281; White State, 49 Ala. 347; Goldman, v. Com., 100 Va. 865, 42 S. E. 923; State v. Hand. 1 Marv. (Del.) 545, 41 Ati. 192; State v. Dickson, 78 Mo. 441.—-Corpus pro oorpore. In old records. Body for body. A phrase expressing the liability of manucaptors. 8 How. State Tr. 110. Less...

In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, in honor of the sacrament 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2L Corpus kiwaimw non, rooipit awti-mationem. The human body does not admit of valuation. Hob. 90.

In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, in honor of the sacrament 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2L Corpus kiwaimw non, rooipit awti-mationem. The human body does not admit of valuation. Hob. 90. Less...

A body of law. A term used to signify a book comprehending several collections of law. There are two principal collections to which this name is given; the Corpus Juris Civilis, and the Corpus Juris Canonici. —Corpus juris oaaoniei. The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon More...

A body of law. A term used to signify a book comprehending several collections of law. There are two principal collections to which this name is given; the Corpus Juris Civilis, and the Corpus Juris Canonici. —Corpus juris oaaoniei. The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law, comprising the decrees and canons of the Roman Church, constituting the body of ecclesiastical law of that church.—Corpus juris oivilis. The body of the civil law. The system of Roman jurisprudence compiled and codified under the direction of the emperor Justinian, in A. D. 528-534. This collection comprises the Institutes, Digest, (or Pandects,) Code, and Novels. The name is said to have been first applied to this collection early in the seventeenth century. Less...

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection. —Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders.

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection. —Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders. Less...