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  • Commission

    An authority to do some act, such as the authority of an agent to enter into a contract or the authority of an officer to hold the office or title . An amount payable to an agent upon the agent performing the act contracted for. Usually expressed in terms of a percentage , but […]

  • Battel

    Trial by combat. It was called also wager of battel or battaile,’ and could be claimed in appeals of felony. It was of frequent use in affairs of chivalry and honor, and in civil cases upon certain issues. Co. Litt. § 294. It was not abolished in England […]

  • Process

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Process Meaning of Process The proceedings in any action or prosecution , real or personal , civil or criminal , from the beginning to the end; strictly, the summons by which one is cited into a court , […]

  • Fundamental Breach

    Fundamental breach in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of fundamental breach. Fundamental Breach in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law […]

  • Transaction

    A word of general import meaning a group of facts so connected together as to be referred to by a single name; as a crime , contract , a wrong .

  • Omne Crimen Ebrietas At Incendit Et Detegit

    Concept of “Omne Crimen Ebrietas At Incendit et Detegit” Traditional meaning of omne crimen ebrietas at incendit et detegit in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (Drunkenness both instigaites and discloses […]

  • Omne Crimen Ebrietas At Incendit Et Detegit

    Concept of “Omne Crimen Ebrietas At Incendit et Detegit” Traditional meaning of omne crimen ebrietas at incendit et detegit in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (Drunkenness both instigaites and discloses […]

  • Preamble

    The preliminary part or clause at the beginning of a statute or legal document of an explanatory nature giving the reasons for the statute or reciting the facts leading to such instrument . The preamble of an enactment is not a substantial part of the same. Merely indicates the light […]

  • Written Law

    Written Law

    One of the two leading divisions of the Roman law, comprising the leges, plebiscita, senatus consulta, prindpum placita, magistratuum edicta, and responsa prudentum. Inst. 1. 2. 3. Statute law; law deriving its force from express legislative enactment. 1 Rl. Comm. 62, 85. …

  • Written Law

    Written Law

    One of the two leading divisions of the Roman law, comprising the leges, plebiscita, senatus consulta, prindpum placita, magistratuum edicta, and responsa prudentum. Inst. 1. 2. 3. Statute law; law deriving its force from express legislative enactment. 1 Rl. Comm. 62, 85. …

  • Measure

    Measure

    That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity or amount .

  • Measure

    Measure

    That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity or amount .

  • Bargain And Sale

    See Richarsan v Levi, 3 S. W. 444, 67 Tex. 359

  • Court Of Convocation

    In English ecclesiastical law. A convocation or ecclesiastical synod, which is in the nature of an ecclesiastical parliament. There is one for each province. They are composed, respectively, of the archbishop. all the bishops, deans, and archdeacons of their province, with one proctor, or […]

  • City

    City

    A municipal corporation of statutory creation having only such limited powers of legislative enactments as are conferred on it by law of its creation. Aberdeen-Franklin Coal Co. v City of Chicago, 145 N.E. 613, 315 111. 99.