Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In French law. Lack of assets ; insolvency. A proc$s-verbal de carouse is a document setting out that the huissier attended to issue execution upon a Judgment, but found nothing upon which to levy. Arg. Fr. Mere, Law, 547.