Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Unlawfully and forcibly compelling one to do an act.

Amount of loss or injury, as distinguished from punitive or exemplary damages.

The author of a statute.

The manager of a company.

A deed.

Lawful acts admit of no qualification.

A right of way.

The act of the court shall oppress no one.

An act of God does not violate anyone’s legal right. See 2 L. R. A. 544.

An act the completion of which depends upon the will of the parties may be revoked, but if it depends upon the will of third parties or upon a contingency, it cannot be revoked.

A judicial act by one not a judge is void; a ministerial act from whomsoever it proceed is valid.

An act of the law shall not harm anyone.

Acts required by law do not admit of qualification.

An act done by me against my will is not mine.

No act is a crime unless there be criminal intent. See 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 661.

A repugnant act is of no effect.

The act of a servant in the sort of work in which he is generally employed is that of the master.

Hate; malice.

At; to; before; near; for; of; until; within.

For greater caution.

A writ by which a bishop was required to admit and institute the clerk of the party who has been successful in a contest for an office. See 3 Bl. Comm. 250.

To another tribunal.

At another day.

At the summoning of the assizes. See 3 Bl. Comm. 185.

From the date.

To hear and determine.

At the bar.

By common understanding.

For the collection of the goods of the decedent.

An old writ by which a reversioner could secure land from the alienee of the deceased life tenant.

To appear.

To render an account.

Before or to the court.

At the costs.

At the cost.

To the damage.

That part of a declaration which sets forth the amount of the plaintiff’s damage. See 75 Conn. 650, 55 Atl. 177.

To defend.

To condemn.

At a day.

Some title or description written after a man’s name for certainty of identification. See 1 Met. (Mass.) 151.

Added, supplemental, coming by way of addition. See Ann. Cas. 1912C, 1007.

A separate building connected to a main one by a passageway held to be an addition thereto. See 3 L. R. A. (N. S.) 156.

Exaggeration indicates inferiority.

The designation of the court in a bill in equity.

Laws are adapted to those cases which more commonly occur.

To effect an ademption.

To the following effect.

The avoidance of a legacy by an act of the testator. See 95 Am. St. Rep. 343.

First.

Conduct which so excites a man’s passion as practically to enthrall his reason. See 71 Am. St. Rep. 553.

In arrears.

Underneath.

To disinheritance.

At the end; at issue.

A Scotch law obligation of a very binding nature.

An allegiance.

To the thread or center of the stream.

To the thread or center of the way.

To the end.

To the end of the litigation.

To farm.

To make a jail delivery.

To the damage.

A Scotch action to restore marital rights.

To the man; personal.

At this day.

To the same effect.

A designation should be made from the more fitting.

The designation and explanation ought to be made from the more fitting.

From thence required.

Without end.

A writ commanding an inquiry or investigation.

At the instance.

In the meantime.

Lost; strayed.

A right of entrance.

Land separated by a distance of fifty-five feet is not adjacent. See Ann. Cas. 1913B, 167.

Law regulating procedure.

Contiguous.

To adjourn.

To adjourn.

A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale.

Judgment.

To judgment.

The uniting of one article or material with another by which the lesser becomes a part of the greater.

An adjunct.

To join in aid.

A writ by one holding a living from the king directed against those seeking to deprive him of it.

The settlement of an insurance loss.

We should be aided and not injured by that which is intended for our benefit.

At large.

Purgation by means of an oath.

During the pendency of the action.

For profit or loss.

For greater caution.

At hand.

A writ which an heir had against the widow who has received more than she is entitled to. See 1 Pick. (Mass.) 314.

A writ for the proper division of rights of common.

To the center or thread of the stream.