Legal Dictionary

Tag: AL

  • Alternatim

    (Law Lat.) Interchangeably. Litt. § 371; Towns. Pi, 37. i …

  • Alternatim

    (Law Lat.) Interchangeably. Litt. § 371; Towns. Pi, 37. i …

  • Alternativa Petitio Non Est Audienda

    An alternative petition Is not to be heard. 5 Coke, 40. …

  • Altum mare

    The high sea …

  • Altum mare

    The high sea …

  • Alba firma

    White rents; rents reserved payable in silver, or white money. They were so called to distinguish them from reditus nigri which were rents reserved payable in work, grain, and the like. 2 Inst. 19. …

  • All-claims Rule

    Meaning of All-claims Rule In this law dictionary, the legal term all-claims rule is a kind of the Patents class. Resources See Also Patents Patents

  • Aliud Est Celare; Aliud Tacere

    To conceal is one thing; to be silent another. 3 Burrows, 1910. See 2 Wheat. (U.S.) 176; 9 Wheat. (U.S.) 631; 3 Bing. 77; 4 Taunt. 851; 2 Car. & P. 341; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 701. …

  • Alluvion

    That increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves, which is so gradual that no one can judge how much is added at each moment of time. Inst. 1. 2, tit. 1, § 20; 3 Barn. & C.…

  • Allocato Comitatu

    See Also EXIGENT

  • Alimony Trust

    Meaning of Alimony Trust Resources See Also Trust

  • A Libellis

    (Law Lat.) An officer who had charge of the libelli or petitions addressed to the sovereign. Calv. Lex. A name sometimes given to a chancellor (cancellarius) in the early history of that office. Spelman, voc. Cancellarius. See Chancellor. …

  • Alderwoman

    Meaning of Alderwoman Resources See Also Municipal Corporations

  • Alimony in gross

    See alimony….

  • Allotment Note

    Meaning of Allotment Note In this law dictionary, the legal term allotment note is a kind of the English law class. Resources See Also English law