Search results for: “maxims of law”
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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. …
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Laws Of Oleron
A maritime code said to have been drawn up by Richard I. at the Isle of Oleron, whence its, name. See Fed. Cas. vol. 30, Appendix, for a copy. …
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Laws Of Oleron
A maritime code said to have been drawn up by Richard I. at the Isle of Oleron, whence its, name. See Fed. Cas. vol. 30, Appendix, for a copy. …
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Rhodian Laws
A code of maritime laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about nine hundred years before the Christian era. There is reason to suppose this code has not been transmitted to posterity, at least not in a […]
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Rhodian Laws
A code of maritime laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about nine hundred years before the Christian era. There is reason to suppose this code has not been transmitted to posterity, at least not in a […]
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Game Laws
Laws regulating the killing or taking of birds and beasts, as game. The English game laws are founded on the idea of restricting the right of taking game to certain privileged classes, generally landholders. In 1831, the law was so modified as to enable any one to obtain a certificate or […]
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Act of law
A result, like the devolution of a title, produced by operation of law without the design of the parties concerned. …
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Act of law
A result, like the devolution of a title, produced by operation of law without the design of the parties concerned. …