Legal Term Dictionary

With felonious intent Hob. 134.

With felonious intent Hob. 134. Less...

Lat. Mind; intention; disposition; design; will. Animo, (q. v.;) with the intention or design. These terms are derived from the civil law. —Animus cancellandi. The intention of destroying or canceling, (applied to wills.)—Animus capiendo. The intention to take or capture. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 126, 155.—Animus dedicandi. The intention of More...

Lat. Mind; intention; disposition; design; will. Animo, (q. v.;) with the intention or design. These terms are derived from the civil law. —Animus cancellandi. The intention of destroying or canceling, (applied to wills.)—Animus capiendo. The intention to take or capture. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 126, 155.—Animus dedicandi. The intention of donating or dedicating.—Animus defamandi. The intention of defaming. The phrase expresses the malicious intent which is essential in every case of verbal injury to render it the subject of an action for libel or slander.—Animus derelinquendi. The intention of abandoning. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 216. Rhodes v. Whitehead, 27 Tex. 304, 84 Am. Dec. 631.—Animus differcndi. The intention of obtaining delay.—Animus donandi. The intention of giving. Expressive of the intent to give which is necessary to constitute a gift.—Animus et factus. Intention and act; will and deed. Used to denote those acts which become effective only when accompanied by a particular intention.—Animus furandi. The intention to steal. Gardner v. State, 55 N. J. Law, 17L 26 Atl. 30: State v. Slingerland, 19 Nev. 135, 7 Pac. 280.—Animus lucrandi The intention to make a gain or profit.—Animus manendi. The intention of remaining; intention to establish a permanent residence. 1 Kent, Comm. 76. This is the point to be settled in determining the domicile or residence of a party. Id. 77.—Animus morandi. The intention to remain, or to delay.—Animus possidendi. The intention of possessing.—Animus quo. The intent with which.—Animus recipiendi. The intention of receiving.— Animus recuperandi. The intention of recovering. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 2, c. 4, ft 10. —Animus republicandi. The intention to republish.—Animus restituendi. The intention of restoring. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2, s 3.— Animus revertendi. The intention of returning. A man retains his domicile if he leaves it animo revertendi. In re Miller's Estate, 3 Rawle (Pa.) 312, 24 Am. Dec. 345 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 225; 2 Russ. Crimes, 18; Poph. 42, 52; 4 Coke, 40. Also, a term employed in the civil law, in expressing the rule of ownership in tamed animals.—Animus revocandi. The intention to revoke.—Animus testandi. An intention to make a testament or will. Farr v. Thompson, 1 Speers (S. C.) 105. Animus ad se omne jus ducit. It is to the intention that all law applies. Law always regards the intention. Animus hominis est anima scripti. The intention of the party is the soul of the instrument. 3 Bulst. 67; Pitm. Prin. & Sur. 26. In order to give life or effect to an instrument, it is essential to look to the intention of the individual who executed it. Less...

A measure containing ten gallons.

A measure containing ten gallons. Less...

In Scotch law. Half a year's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Whishaw.

In Scotch law. Half a year's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Whishaw. Less...

In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee.

In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee. Less...

Lat. Annuals; a title formerly given to the Year Books. In old records. Yearlings; cattle of the first year. Cowell.

Lat. Annuals; a title formerly given to the Year Books. In old records. Yearlings; cattle of the first year. Cowell. Less...

In Scotch law. To alienate; to convey.

In Scotch law. To alienate; to convey. Less...

In ecclesiastical law. First-fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year's profit was taken as their rate.

In ecclesiastical law. First-fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year's profit was taken as their rate. Less...

To add to; to unite; to attach one thing permanently to another. The word expresses the idea of joining a smaller or subordinate thing with another, larger, or of higher importance. In the law relating to fixtures, the expression "annexed to the freehold" means fastened to or connected with it; More...

To add to; to unite; to attach one thing permanently to another. The word expresses the idea of joining a smaller or subordinate thing with another, larger, or of higher importance. In the law relating to fixtures, the expression "annexed to the freehold" means fastened to or connected with it; mere juxtaposition, or the laying of an object, however heavy, on the freehold, does not amount to annexation. Merritt v. Judd, 14 Cal. 64. Less...

The act of attaching, adding, joining, or uniting one thing to another ; generally spoken of the connection of a smaller or subordinate thing with a larger or principal thing. The attaching an illustrative or auxiliary document to a deposition, pleading, deed, etc., is called "annexing" it. So the incorporation More...

The act of attaching, adding, joining, or uniting one thing to another ; generally spoken of the connection of a smaller or subordinate thing with a larger or principal thing. The attaching an illustrative or auxiliary document to a deposition, pleading, deed, etc., is called "annexing" it. So the incorporation of newly-acquired territory into the national domain, as an integral part thereof, is called "annexation," as in the case of the addition of Texas to the United States. In the law relating to fixtures: Actual annexation includes every movement by which a chattel can be joined or united to the freehold. Constructive annexation is the union of such things as have been holden parcel of the realty, but which are not actually annexed, fixed, or fastened to the freehold. Shep. Touch. 460; Amos & F. Flxt 2. In Scotch law. The union of lands to the crown, and declaring them inalienable. Also the appropriation of the church-lands by the crown, and the union of lands lying at a distance from the parish church to which they belong, to the church of another parish to which they are contiguous. Less...