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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

Guilty; criminal.

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

Blamable; censurable; Involving the breach of a legal duty or the commission of a fault. The term is not necessarily equivalent to "criminal," foe, in present use, and notwithstanding its derivation, it implies that the act or conduct spoken of is reprehensible or wrong but not that it in. volves malice or a guilty purpose. "Culpable" in fact connotes fault rather than guilt. Railway Co. v. Clayberg, 107 III. 651; Bank v. Wright, 8 Allen IMass.l 121. An to culpable "Homicide," "Neglect," and "Negligence," see those titles.

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.^