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Anarchy

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The absence of all political government; by extension, confusion in government.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The absence of government.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The absence of all political government; by extension, Coufusiou in government. The absence of government; a state of society where there is no law or supreme power. Spies v. People, 122 111. 253, 12 N. E. 865, 17 N. E. 89S, 3 Am. St. Hep. A social theory which regards the union of order with the absence of all direct government of man by man as the political ideal; absolute individual liberty. Cent Diet. Taken in its proper sense, the word has nothing to do with disorder or crime, but in •the Act* of Congress of March.:. 1903, the word '•anarchists" is used synonymously with "persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the ernment of the United States or of all government or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials," and this would to be the popular sense attaching to the 1902, criminal anarchy is defined as the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force and violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of the government, by any unlawful means. 15 Rep. Am. Bar Assn. 210. In U. S. v. Williams, 194 U. S. 294, 24 Sup. Ct. 719, 48 L. Ed. 979, it was held that oven though an alien anarchist only regarded the absence of government as a political ideal, yet when he sought to attain it by advocating a universal strike and discoursing upon "the legal murder of 1SS7" (Spies v. People, 122 111. 1, 12 N. E. SG5, 17 N. E. 898, 3 Am. St. Rep. 320) there was a justifiable inference that he contemplated the ultimate realization of his ideal by the use of force, or that his speeches were incitements to that end. And further, that even if "anarchists" should be interpreted to mean political philosophers innocent of evil intent, yet the tendency of the general exploitation of such views is so dangerous to the public weal that aliens who hold and advocate them would be undesirable additions to the population and their exclusion infringes none of the constitutional guaranties respecting freedom of speech, etc. See Alien.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The destruction of government; lawlessness; the absence of all political government; by extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 III. 1, 253, 12 N. E. 865, 3 Am. St Rep. 320; Lewis v. Daily News Co., 81 Md. 466, 32 Atl. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59 ; People v. Most, 36 Misc. Rep. 139, 73 N. Y. Supp. 220; Von Gerichten v. Seitz, 94 App. Div. 130, 87 N. Y. Supp. 968.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

The absence of government In old English law. To alien amortization. In old English law. or removed; amoveabl& or taking away. a wrongful taking of personal; a dispossession of lands; a recorporation, — sometimes applied, but member, that being a disfranchise- &! amour. away; to withdraw, v. Amovere. remove the hands; the judgment de droit, or petition de droit, that to the demandant; the writ title of the statute 39 Edw. L remove; to put out of ofl Bce; to remove without force; to move intent; to steal.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

2 The absence of government; a state of society in which there is no law or supreme power. 3 " K the conspiracy had for its object the Hestruetion of the law and government, it had for its object the bringing about of practical anarchy. And when murder has resulted from the conspiracy and the perpetrators are on trial for the crime, whether or not they were anarchists may be a proper circumstance to be considered in coimection with other circumstances, with a view,of showing what connection, if any, they had with the conspiracy and what were their purposes in joining it." 3 See further as to case cited, Accessary; Challenge, 4; Character; Charge, 3 (2, c); Conspiracy; Courts, United States; Criminate; Doubt, Reasonable; Jury; Malice; Opinion, 2. Alf CESTOR.4 The last person actually seized of an inheritance.^ In the law of descents the prepossessor of an estate. 6 The ascendant of an intestate in the right line, as father, mother, grandfather, grandmother.'' The person from whom an estate descends; not a progenitor, in the popular acceptation. 8 It is the immediate, and not the remote, ancestor from whom the estate descends.* 1 Eex V. Richardson, 1 Burr. B3B (1758), Mansfield, C. J.; 1 B. & Ad. 936; L. E., 5 H. L. 636. See generally 34 Cent. Law J. 99 (1887), cases. ^ Gk. anarchi'a, lack of government: an'archos, without a chief. ' [Spies et al. v. People, 122 HI. 253 (Sept. 14, 1887), Magruder, J., — " Anarchists' Case.". [Webster's Diet. Same case, 9 Cr. Law Mag. 839, 926-35, cases; 12 N. E. Eep. No. 16; 18 Chic. Leg. News, 809, 411. *F. cmcessour, a fore-goer: L. antecessor: ante cedere, to go before. = 3 Bl. Com. 209, 443; 2 Kent, 404, 419. « [Mc Carthy v. Marsh, 5 N. T. 375 (1851). ' [Valentine v. Wetherill, 31 Barb. 659 After the rule was adopted that inheritances might ascend, tbe ancestor was the person from whom the inheritance devolved upon the heir, and a child might, therefore, be the ancestor of his parent.' ' Common ancestor. The parent from whom designated persons have sprung. In the Ohio statute of descents the ancestor is any one from whom the estate is inherited. The ancestor from whom it must " have come to the intestate "is he from whom it was immediately inherited. Such ancestor takes the place of the first purchaser under the English canons of descent.. No remote ancestor has any favorable estimation here. Neither the primary definition nor the legal sense of the word agrees with the most popular and obvious signification. He from whom the estate was immediately inherited is the ancestor, the propositus, from whom the estate came.^ Embraces collaterals as well as lineals through whom an inheritance is derived, and refers to the immediate ancestor.'' Uncles, aunts, and other collateral " antecessors " who are not in fact "ancestors " are sometimes designated as " collateral ancestors." In its ordinary import " ancestors " includes only those from whom the person spoken of is lineally descended on the father's or the mother's side. When used in a sense different from its ordinary import of lineal antecessors, so as to embrace all the blood relatives preceding the person referred to, it is qualified or enlarged by some other t6rm.* " Maternal ancestor " in the Massachusetts statute of 1851, u. 311 (relating to illegitimate children), is limited to progenitors in the direct ascending line, according to the common meaning and the only sense in which "ancestor" is used throughout the statute of descents and distributions.^ See further Consanguinity; Descent; Heir;- Inherit.