Legal Term Dictionary

To lessen; to palliate; to mitigate. Connell v. State, 46 Tex. Cr. R. 259, 81 S. W. 748.

To lessen; to palliate; to mitigate. Connell v. State, 46 Tex. Cr. R. 259, 81 S. W. 748. Less...

Such as render a delict or crime less aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or tend to palliate or lessen its guilt. Such circumstances may ordinarily be shown in order to reduce the punishment or damages.

Such as render a delict or crime less aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or tend to palliate or lessen its guilt. Such circumstances may ordinarily be shown in order to reduce the punishment or damages. Less...

The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who, though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation of its laws.

The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who, though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation of its laws. Less...

Lat. A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis. Exterus non habot terras. An alien holds no lands. Tray. Lat Max. 203.

Lat. A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis. Exterus non habot terras. An alien holds no lands. Tray. Lat Max. 203. Less...

Extinguished. A rent is said to be extinguished when it is destroyed and put out. Co. Litt. 147b. See EXTINGUISHMENT. Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunctum. When the subject is extinguished, the incident ceases. Thus, when the business for which a partnership has been formed is completed, or brought to an end, More...

Extinguished. A rent is said to be extinguished when it is destroyed and put out. Co. Litt. 147b. See EXTINGUISHMENT. Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunctum. When the subject is extinguished, the incident ceases. Thus, when the business for which a partnership has been formed is completed, or brought to an end, the partnership itself ceases. Inst. 3, 26, 0; 3 Kent Comm. 52, note. Less...

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate. The annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of which it is derived. Prest. Merg. 0. For the distinction between an extinguishment and passing a right see 2 Share. Bl. Comm. 325, note. "Extinguishment" More...

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate. The annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of which it is derived. Prest. Merg. 0. For the distinction between an extinguishment and passing a right see 2 Share. Bl. Comm. 325, note. "Extinguishment" is sometimes confounded with "merger," though there is a clear distinction between them. "Merger" is only a mode of extinguishment and applies to estates only under particular circumstances; but "extinguishment" is a term of general application to rights, as well as estates. 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p, 367, f 1487. -Extinguishment of common. Loss of the right to have common. This may happen from various causes.-Extinguishment of copyhold. In English law. A copyhold is said to be extinguished when the freehold and copyhold interests unite in the same person and in the same right which may be either by the copyhold interest coming to the freehold or by the freehold interest coming to the copyhold. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 670, | 864.-Extinguishment of debts. This takes place by payment; by accord and satisfaction: by novation, or the substitution of a new debtor; by merger, when the creditor recovers a judgment or accepts a security of a higher nature than the original obligation; by a release; by the marriage of a feme sole creditor with the debtor, or of an obligee with one of two joint obligors; and where one of the parties, debtor or creditor, makes the other his executor.-Extinguishment of rent. If a person have a yearly rent of lands, and afterwards purchase those lands, so that he has as good an estate in the land as in the rent, the rent is extinguished. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 147. Rent may also be extinguished by conjunction of estates, by confirmation, by grant, by release, and by surrender. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. pp. 210-213, s 209.-Extinguishment of ways. This is usually effected by unity of possession. As if a man have a way over the close of another, and he purchase that close, the way is extinguished. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 341, | 384. Less...

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See ESTREPEMENT.

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See ESTREPEMENT. Less...

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrew any house or extirpated any trees upon it. Reg. Jud. I3, 56.

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrew any house or extirpated any trees upon it. Reg. Jud. I3, 56. Less...

In old records. To grub woodland, and reduce it to arable or meadow; "to stock up." Cowell.

In old records. To grub woodland, and reduce it to arable or meadow; "to stock up." Cowell. Less...

A technical word used in indictments for extortion. It is a sufficient averment of a corrupt intent, in an indictment for extortion, to allege that the defendant "extorsively" took the unlawful fee. Leeman v. State. 35 Ark.. 438, 37 Am. Rep. 44.

A technical word used in indictments for extortion. It is a sufficient averment of a corrupt intent, in an indictment for extortion, to allege that the defendant "extorsively" took the unlawful fee. Leeman v. State. 35 Ark.. 438, 37 Am. Rep. 44. Less...