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Case Law
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Case Law Meaning of Case Law Law which is found in reported cases as distinguished from the law found in statutes. Sometimes used synonymously with common law . […]
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Constitutional Law
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Constitutional Law Meaning of Constitutional Law All rules which directly or indirectly affect the distribution or exercise of the sovereign power. (Dicey.) ” So much of the law as relates to the […]
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Organic Law
The written or unwritten constitution; the underlying rules and principles on which the government is established, …
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Lawful Age
Full age of majority .
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Lawful Age
Full age of majority .
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Great Law
The name of an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, passed at Chester immediately after the arrival of William Penn, December 7, 1682. Sergeant, Land Laws Pa. 24, 230. …
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Law Of The Flag
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Law of the flag Meaning of Law of the flag The flag Is used, in the prosecution of commerce upon the high seas, as a symbol of nationality. Tha nationality of a ship is determined by the flag which it […]
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Unlawfully
In pleading. This word is frequently used in indictments in the deUNLIQUIDATED DAMAGES soription of the oflPense. It Is neoeasary when the crime did not exist at common law, and when a statute, in describing an offense which it creates, uses the word (1 Moody, Cr. Gas. 889) ; but it is […]
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Unwritten Law
The municipal laws of England are: (1) the unwritten or common law, which includes customs, general and particular, and particular laws. General customs, or the common law properly so called, are founded on immemorial universal usage, whereof judicial decisions are the evidence. Particular laws […]
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Counsellor At Law
See Counsel; Attorney at Law. …
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Counsellor At Law
See Counsel; Attorney at Law. …
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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. …
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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. …