Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. "Blount.

In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. "Blount. Less...

A term used in Hindostan for a passport permit or order from the English East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of duties. Enc Lond.

A term used in Hindostan for a passport permit or order from the English East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of duties. Enc Lond. Less...

See AUCTION.

See AUCTION. Less...

In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs ; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes, charges, or governmental impositions. Pollock v. Farmers' L. & T. Co., 158 U. S. 601; 15 Sup. Ct 912, 39 More...

In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs ; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes, charges, or governmental impositions. Pollock v. Farmers' L. & T. Co., 158 U. S. 601; 15 Sup. Ct 912, 39 L. Ed. 1108; Alexander v. Railroad Co., 3 Strob. (S. C.) 595; Pacific Ins. Co. v. Soule, 7 Wall. 433, 19 L. Ed. 95 J Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 12 How. 299, 13 L. Ed. 996; Blake v. Baker, 115 Mass. 188. -Duties of detraction. Taxes levied upon the removal from one state to another of property acquired by succession or testamentary disposition. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445, 16 L. Ed. 577 ; In re Strobel's Estate, 5 App. Div. 621, 39 N. Y. Supp. 169.-Duties on imports. This term signifies not merely a duty on the act of importation, but a duty on the thing imported. It is not confined to a duty levied while the article is entering the country, but extends to a duty levied after it has entered the country. Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 437, 6 L. Ed. 678. Less...

In its use in jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus, wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon all persons generally. But It Is also used, In a wider sense, to designate that class of More...

In its use in jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus, wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon all persons generally. But It Is also used, In a wider sense, to designate that class of moral obligations which lie outside the jural sphere; such, namely, as rest upon an imperative ethical basis, bpt have not been recognized by the law as within its proper province for purposes of enforcement or redress. Thus, gratitude towards a benefactor is a duty, but its refusal will not ground an action. In this meaning "duty" Is the equivalent of "moral obligation," as distinguished from a "legal obligation." See Kentucky v. Denni-son, 24 How. 107, 16 L. Ed. 717; Harrison v. Bush, 5 El. & Bl. 349. As a technical term of the law, "duty" signifies a thing due; that which is due from a person; that which a person owes to another. An obligation to do a thing. A word of more extensive signification than "debt," although both are expressed by the same , Latin word "debitvm." Beach v. Boynton, 26 Vt 725, 733. But in practice it is commonly reserved as the designation of those obligations of performance, care, or observance which rest upon a person In an official or fiduciary capacity ; as the duty of an executor, trustee, manager, etc. It also denotes a tax or impost due to the government upon the importation or exportation of goods. -Legal duty. An obligation arising from contract of the parties or the operation of the law. Riddell v. Ventilating Co., 27 Mont. 44, 69 Pac. 241. That which the law requires to be done or forborne to a determinate person or the public at large, correlative to a vested and coextensive right in such person or the public, and the breach of which constitutes negligence. Heaven v. Pender, 11 Q. B. Div. 506; Smith v. Clarke Hardware Co., 100 Ga. 163, 28 S. E. 73, 39 L. R. A. 607; Railroad Co. v. Ballentine, 84 Fed. 935, 28 O. C. A. 572. Less...

(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the ancient Romans, given to any magistrates elected In pairs to fill any office, or perform any function. Brande. Duumviri municipals were two annual magistrates in the towns and colonies, having judicial powers. Calvin. Duumviri na vales were officers appointed More...

(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the ancient Romans, given to any magistrates elected In pairs to fill any office, or perform any function. Brande. Duumviri municipals were two annual magistrates in the towns and colonies, having judicial powers. Calvin. Duumviri na vales were officers appointed to man, equip, and refit the navy. Id. Less...

In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army. Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr. In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1 Bl. Comm. 997; Crabb, Eng. Law, 236. In later law. A military governor of a province. More...

In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army. Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr. In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1 Bl. Comm. 997; Crabb, Eng. Law, 236. In later law. A military governor of a province. See Cod. 1, 27, 2. A military officer having charge of the borders or frontiers of the empire, called "dux limitis.'9 Cod. 1, 49, 1, pr. At this period, the word began to be used as a title of honor or dignity. Less...

In genealogical tables, a common abbreviation for "died without issue."

In genealogical tables, a common abbreviation for "died without issue." Less...

To have an abode; to inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontown v. Shrewsbury, 49 N. J. Law, 188, 6 Atl. 319.

To have an abode; to inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontown v. Shrewsbury, 49 N. J. Law, 188, 6 Atl. 319. Less...

The house in which a man lives with his family; a residence; the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence. In conveyancing. Includes all buildings attached to or connected with the house. 2 Hil. Real Prop. 338, and note. In the More...

The house in which a man lives with his family; a residence; the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence. In conveyancing. Includes all buildings attached to or connected with the house. 2 Hil. Real Prop. 338, and note. In the law of burglary. A house in which the occupier and his family usually reside, or, in other words, dwell and lie in. Whart. Crim. Law, 357. Less...