Culpable
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
This means not only criminal but censurable; and when the term is applied to the omission by a person to preserve the means of enforcing his own rights, censurable is more nearly equivalent As he has merely lost a right of action which he might voluntarily relinquish, and has wronged nobody but himself, culpable neglect would seem to convey the idea of neglect for which he was to blame and is ascribed to his own carelessness, improvidence or folly. Waltham Bank v. Wright, 8 Allen (Mass.) 122.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Means not only criminal, but censurable; and, when the term is applied to the omission by a person to preserve the means of enforcing his own rights, censurable ig more nearly an equivalent. Ashe has merely lost a vight of action which né might voluntarily relinquish, and has wrenged nobody but himseif, culpable negleet conveys the idea of neglect which exists where the loss can fairly be ascribed to the party’s own carelessness, improvidence, or folly, 8 Allen, 121.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Censurable; criminal. See Culpa. Applied to an omission to preserve the means of enforcing a right, " censurable " is more nearly an equivalent than ''criminal."'' See Negligence, Culpable. CULTIVATIOTf. See Agriculture; Betterment; Crop; Improve. Being in a state of cultivation is the converse of being in a state of nature. Whenever lands have been wrought with a view to the production of a crop they Hiust be considered as becoming and continuing in " a state of cultivation " until abandoned for every purpose of agriculture and designedly permitted to revert to a condition similar to the original one." " Fit for cultivation " refers to that condition of soil which will enable a farmer, with a reasonable amount of skill, to raise regularly and annually by tillage grain or other staple crops.^