Tag: people

  • Guardianship

    Guardianship

    The power of protective authority given by law, and imposed on an individual who is free and in the enjoyment of his rights, over one whose weakness on account of his age or infirmity renders him unable to protect himself. …

  • Curator

    One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself; a guardian. There are curators ad bona (of property) , who administer the estate of a minor, […]

  • Condition

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]

  • Condition

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]

  • Bastardy

    Fornication .

  • Bastardy

    Fornication .

  • Civil Death

    A man convicted of treason or who adjured the realm or went into a monastery was said to be civilly dead. The state of a person , who though possessing natural life, has lost all civil rights and as to them is considered dead. Hayoshi v Lorenz, (Cal.App.) 258 P.2d 1039.

  • Civil Death

    A man convicted of treason or who adjured the realm or went into a monastery was said to be civilly dead. The state of a person , who though possessing natural life, has lost all civil rights and as to them is considered dead. Hayoshi v Lorenz, (Cal.App.) 258 P.2d 1039.

  • Degree

    Degree

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Degree Meaning of Degree (Fr. degre, from Lat. gradus, a step in a stairway; a round of a ladder). A remove or step in the line of descent or consanguinity. The state or civil condition of a person. The […]

  • Demise

    Demise

    Conveyance or transfer of an estate either in fee, for life or for years. See Gilmore v Hamilton, 83 Ind. 196.The term denotes something more than the mere letting or a lease . It embraces a fee, importing an agreement between the landlord and the tenant of implied covenants on […]

  • Alien

    Alien

    Alien in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of alien.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading alien in A Dictionary of Law […]

  • Alien

    Alien

    Alien in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of alien.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading alien in A Dictionary of Law […]

  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

  • Quality

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Quality Meaning of Quality Descriptive of organic composition or substance ; expressed in definite quantitative units and definitive of character , nature and degree of excellence of an article . Dean […]