Search results for: “common law action”
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Common Land
A more extended term for what Is sometimes more shortly called simply common; land, i. e. in which there is right of common (see Common), land which there is right to use in common, for pasturing, etc. The term is also used rather pop’ularly and loosely than legally to mean land owned […]
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Court Of Common Pleas
In American Law. A court of original and general jurisdiction for the trial of issues of fact and law according to the principles of the common law. Courts of this name still exist in some of the states of the United States, and frequently have a criminal as well as civil jurisdiction. […]
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Action not otherwise provided for
A phrase commonly appearing in statutes which divide up actions for some purpose (e.g., length of applicable limitations period, courts with initial jurisdiction) to take care of any action which may not have been specifically assigned, as in all actions not otherwise provided for herein […]
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Lynch Law
A common phrase used to express the vengeance of a mob inflicting an injury and committing an outrage upon a person suspected of some oifense. In England this is called Lidford Law. See also Jedburgh Justice. …
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Common Pleas
The name of a court having jurisdiction generally of civil actions. Such pleas or actions as are brought by private persons against private persons, or by the government, when the cause of action is of a civil nature. In England, whence we derived this phrase, common pleas are so called to […]
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Common Counts
Certain general counts, not founded on any special contract, which are introduced in a declaration for the purpose of preventing a defeat of a just right by the accidental variance of the evidence. These are, in an action of assumpsit, counts founded on express or implied promises to pay money […]
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Cognovi Actionem
(Lat.) He has confessed the action. Cognovit alone is in common use with the same significance. In Pleading. A written confession of an action by the defendant, subscribed, but not sealed, and authorizing the plaintiff to sign judgment and issue execution, usually for a sum named. It is […]
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Limitation Of Actions
At common law, there is no time prescribed within which a person has to bring his action but limitations of such period have been prescribed by statutes in all jurisdictions. See U.S. v Thompson, 98 U.S. 486, 25 L.Ed. 194. A negative prescription leading to the loss or forfeiture of a right, by […]
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Actio
In civil law. A specifl.c mode of enforcing a right before the courts of law, e. g., legis actio; actio sacramenti. In this sense we speak of actions in our law, e. g., the action of debt. The right to a remedy, thus: Ex irndo pacta non oritur actio, no right of action can arise…
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Actio
In civil law. A specifl.c mode of enforcing a right before the courts of law, e. g., legis actio; actio sacramenti. In this sense we speak of actions in our law, e. g., the action of debt. The right to a remedy, thus: Ex irndo pacta non oritur actio, no right of action can arise…
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Actio in factum
In civil law. An action adapted to the particular case which had an analogy to some actio in jus, which was founded on some subsisting acknowledged law. Spence, Eq. Jur. 212. The origin of these actions is strikingly similar to that of actions on the case at common law. See […]
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Actio in factum
In civil law. An action adapted to the particular case which had an analogy to some actio in jus, which was founded on some subsisting acknowledged law. Spence, Eq. Jur. 212. The origin of these actions is strikingly similar to that of actions on the case at common law. See […]
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Book Debt
A statutory remedy existing in several states for the collection of a debt evidenced by entries in books of account. …
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Foreign Policy
Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO and WEU and the European Union Resources See Also CFSP Defence policy
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Political Method
Hierarchical Display of Community method European Union > European construction > European Communities > European CommunityEuropean Union > European Union law > EU actEuropean Union > European Union law > Intergovernmental legal instrument Meaning of Community method Overview and more […]