Legal Term Dictionary

A prosecutor or adversary.

A prosecutor or adversary. Less...

The examination or testing of food, fluids, or other articles made subject by law to such examination, to ascertain their fitness for' use or commerce.' People v. Compagnle Generale Transatlan-tique (C. C.) 10 Fed. 361; Id., 107 U. S. 59, "2 Sup. Ct. 87, 27 L. Ed. 383 ; Turner More...

The examination or testing of food, fluids, or other articles made subject by law to such examination, to ascertain their fitness for' use or commerce.' People v. Compagnle Generale Transatlan-tique (C. C.) 10 Fed. 361; Id., 107 U. S. 59, "2 Sup. Ct. 87, 27 L. Ed. 383 ; Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38, 2 Sup. Ct. 44, 27 I* Ed. 370." Also the examination by a private person of public records and documents; or of the books and papers of his opponent in an action, for the purpose of better preparing his own case for trial -Inspection laws. Laws authorising and directing the inspection and examination of various kinds of merchandise intended for sale, especially food, with a view to ascertaining its fitness for use, and excluding unwholesome or unmarketable goods from sale, and directing the appointment of official inspectors for that purpose. See Const. U. S. art. 1. 8 10, d. 2; Story, Const. ? 1017, et seq. Gibbons v. Og-den. 9 Wheat. 202, 6 L. Ed. 23; Clintsmaa v. Northrop, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 45; Patapsco Guano Co. v. Board of Agriculture. 171 U. S* 345, 18 Sun. Ct. 862, 41 L. Ed. 191; Turner v. State, 55 Md. 263.-Inspection of documents. This phrase refers to tbe right of a party, in a civil action, to inspect and make copies of documents which are essential or material to the maintenance of his cause, and which are either in the custody of an officer of the law or in the possession of the adverse party.-Inspection, trial by. A mode of trial formerly in use in England, by which the judges of a court decided a point in dispute, upon tbe testimony of their own senses, with* out the intervention of a jury. This took place In cases where the fact npon which issue was taken must from its nature, be evident to the court from ocular demonstration, or other irrefragable proof; and was adopted for the greater expedition of a cause. 3 Bl. Comm. Less...

Officers whose duty It is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc

Officers whose duty It is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc Less...

In English law. An instrument entered into between an Insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such Insolvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors.

In English law. An instrument entered into between an Insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such Insolvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors. Less...

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 53o.

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 53o. Less...

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as tbe placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary Into his stall or seat or a knight into his order. Wharton.

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as tbe placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary Into his stall or seat or a knight into his order. Wharton. Less...

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown. Less...

In pleading and praetiee. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party's "special instance and re-, quest" In the civil and French law. A gen* eral term, designating all sorts of actions and judicial, demands. Dig. 44, 7, 58, More...

In pleading and praetiee. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party's "special instance and re-, quest" In the civil and French law. A gen* eral term, designating all sorts of actions and judicial, demands. Dig. 44, 7, 58, In eoolosiastical law. Causes of instance are those proceeded in at the solicitation of some party, as opposed to causes of office, which run.in the name of the judge. Hallifax, Civil Law, p. 156. In Scotch law. That which may be insisted on at one diet or course of probation. Wharton. -Instance conrt. In English law. That division or department of the court of admiralty which exercises all the ordinary admiralty jurisdiction, with tbe single exception of prize cases, the latter belonging to the branch called the "Prize Court." The term is sometimes used ia American law for purposes of explanation1, but has no proper application to admiralty courts in the United States, where the powers of both instance and prize courts are conferred without any distinction. 3 Kent, Comm.'355, 378; The Betsey, 3 Dall. 6, 1 L. Ed. 485; The Emulous, 1 Gall. 563, Fed. Cas. No. 4,479. Less...

In Spanish law. The institution and prosecution of a suit from its commencemeqt until definitive judgment The first instance, "primera instancia," Is the prosecution of the Buit before the judge competent to take cognizance of it at its inception; the second instance, "secunda it* stancia," is the exercise of the More...

In Spanish law. The institution and prosecution of a suit from its commencemeqt until definitive judgment The first instance, "primera instancia," Is the prosecution of the Buit before the judge competent to take cognizance of it at its inception; the second instance, "secunda it* stancia," is the exercise of the same action before the court of appellate jurisdiction; and the third instance, "tercera instoncio," Is the prosecution of the same suit, either hy an application of revision before the appellate tribunal that has already decided the cause, or before some higher tribunal, having jurisdiction of the same. Escriche. Less...

An "instantaneous" crime is one which is fully consummated or completed in and by a single act (such as arson or murder) as distinguished from one which involves a series or repetition of acta See U. S. v. Owen (D. C.) 32 Fed. 537,

An "instantaneous" crime is one which is fully consummated or completed in and by a single act (such as arson or murder) as distinguished from one which involves a series or repetition of acta See U. S. v. Owen (D. C.) 32 Fed. 537, Less...