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  • Praetor

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Praetor Meaning of Praetor In Roman law. A municipal officer of Rome, so called because (praeiret populo) he went before or took precedence of the people. The consuls were at first called praetors. […]

  • Praetor

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Praetor Meaning of Praetor In Roman law. A municipal officer of Rome, so called because (praeiret populo) he went before or took precedence of the people. The consuls were at first called praetors. […]

  • Protest

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Protest Meaning of Protest A solemn declaration of dissent . An express declaration by a person doing an act that the act is not to give rise to an implication which it might otherwise cause . In […]

  • Protest

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Protest Meaning of Protest A solemn declaration of dissent . An express declaration by a person doing an act that the act is not to give rise to an implication which it might otherwise cause . In […]

  • Documents

    The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is. however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. […]

  • Documents

    The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is. however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. […]

  • Pluries

    (Lat. many times). A writ issued subsequently to a first and second (alias) of the same kind, which have proved ineffectual. The name is given to it from the word pluries in the Latin form of the writ: We command you, as we have often (pluries) commanded you before, which […]

  • Pluries

    (Lat. many times). A writ issued subsequently to a first and second (alias) of the same kind, which have proved ineffectual. The name is given to it from the word pluries in the Latin form of the writ: We command you, as we have often (pluries) commanded you before, which […]

  • Pignus

    A pledge or security for a debt or demand . In civil law , a pignus was where the pledgee received possession of the thing pledged and hypotheca was where the pledgor retained possession.

  • Writing

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Writing Meaning of Writing In the most general sense, the term denotes a document, whether manuscript or printed, as opposed to mere spoken words. Writing […]

  • Line

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Line Meaning of Line In Descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects successively all the relations by […]

  • English Bill of Rights

    Definition of English Bill of Rights In relation to social issues, a meaning of english bill of rights is provided here: a law passed by Parliament in 1689 that forms the foundation of Britain ™s unwritten constitution. The bill prohibited the monarchy from suspending laws, levying […]

  • Cadere

    (Lat.) To fall; to fail; to end; to terminate. The word was generally used to denote the termination or failure of a writ, action, complaint, or attempt; as, cadit actio, the action fails, cadit assisa, the assise abates, eadere causa, or a cawsa, to lose a cause. Abate will translate […]

  • Pleading

    A written statement delivered by a party to a cause containing a concise statement of the material facts upon which such party relies. A pleading should not contain the evidence by which the material facts pleaded are to be proved, although no Averment must be omitted which is […]

  • Capias

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Capias Meaning of Capias (Lat. capere to take; capias, that you take). A writ directing the sheriff to take the person of the defendant into custody. It is a judicial writ, and issued originally only to […]