Search results for: “history of courts”
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Cour De Cassation
In French law. The supreme judicial tribunal and court of final resort. It is composed of forty-nine counsellors and judges, including a first president and three presidents of chamber, an attorney general and six advocates general, one head registrar and four deputy registrars appointed […]
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Constable
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Constable Meaning of Constable An officer employed by a government , municipal or county , whose duty it is to serve process for courts of justices of the peace . […]
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Equitable
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Equitable Meaning of Equitable (1) That which is fair; (2) that which arises from a liberal construction or application of a legal rule or remedy ; (3) that which is in accordance with, or regulated, […]
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Right
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]
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Fiction
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiction Meaning of Fiction An assumption or supposition of law that something which may be false is true and will not allow the same to be disproved. common law abounds in fiction, particularly in the […]
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Use
To put into practice; employ habitually as in to use diligence. To occupy and enjoy the fruits of, as in using lands and tenements. To employ for the accomplishment of a purpose. To utilise for a particular purpose as in using a certain name in one’s business. The term also means benefit as […]
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Capitalis Justiciarius
The chief justiciary; the principal minister of state, and guardian of the realm in the king’s absence. This office originated under William the Conqueror, but its power was greatly diminished by Magna Charta, and finally distributed among several courts by Edward I. Spelman; 8 Bl. […]
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Benefit Of Clergy
Originally, the exemption from the abolition in 1827.