Tag: Spanish
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Fallo
In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a lawsuit. …
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Cacicazgos
In Spanish law. Lands held in entail by the caciques in Indian villages in Spanish America. …
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Ejidos
(Spanish). Commons. 15 Cal. 554. …
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Ejidos
(Spanish). Commons. 15 Cal. 554. …
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Indulto
In Spanish law. The condonation or remission of the punishment imposed on a criminal for his offense. L. 1, tit. 32, pt. 7. This power is exclusively vested in the king. …
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Indulto
In Spanish law. The condonation or remission of the punishment imposed on a criminal for his offense. L. 1, tit. 32, pt. 7. This power is exclusively vested in the king. …
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Dote
In Spanish law. The property and effects which a woman brings to her husband for the purpose of aiding him, with the rents and revenues thereof, to support the expenses of the marriage. Las Partidas, 4. 11. 1. Dos, says Cajas, est pecunia marito, nuptiarum causa, data […]
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Dote
In Spanish law. The property and effects which a woman brings to her husband for the purpose of aiding him, with the rents and revenues thereof, to support the expenses of the marriage. Las Partidas, 4. 11. 1. Dos, says Cajas, est pecunia marito, nuptiarum causa, data […]
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Bozero
In Spanish law. An advocate; one who pleads the causes of others, either suing or defending. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 1, 1-6. Called, also, abogadas. Amongst other classes of persons excluded from this office are minors under seventeen, the deaf, the dumb, friars, women and infamofjs […]
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Bozero
In Spanish law. An advocate; one who pleads the causes of others, either suing or defending. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 1, 1-6. Called, also, abogadas. Amongst other classes of persons excluded from this office are minors under seventeen, the deaf, the dumb, friars, women and infamofjs […]
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Infanzon
In Spanish law. A person of noble birth, who exercises within his domains and inheritance no other rights and privileges than those conceded to him. …
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Caballeria
In Spanish law. A portion of spoils taken or lands conquered in a war, granted to a horse soldier. Diet. Span. Acad.; 12 Pet. (U.S.) 444, note. A quantity of land, varying in extent in different provinces. In those parts of the United States which formerly belonged to Spain, it is a lot […]
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Ganancial
Community property , in Spanish law, of the husband and wife divisible equally on dissolution of the marriage.
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Fiel
In Spanish law. An officer who keeps possession of a thing deposited under authority of law. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, lib. 1. …
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Corregidor
In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 White, New Recop. 53. …