Deem
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To decide; to judge; to sentence. such crimes, and not a semblance of it, nor a mere fanciful approximation to or designation of the offence. Com. v. Pratt, 132 Mass. 247. When a thing is to be "deemed" something else, it is to be treated as that something else with the attendant consequences, but.it is not that something else; CO L J. Q. B. 380. When a statute enacts that something sball be deemed to have been done, which in fact and truth was not done, the court is bound to ascertain for what purpose and between what persons the statutory fiction is to be resorted to; 50 L. J. Ch. 662.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Tohold; consider; adjudge; condenn. When, by statute, certain acts are “deemed” to be a crime of a particular nature, they are such crime, and not a semblance of it, nor a mere fanciful approximation to or designation of the offense. 132 Mass. 247.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
When by enactment certain acts are " deemed " to be a crime of a particular nature they constitute such ' crime, and are not a Semblance or a fanciful approximation of it.i "Deemed" and "adjudged," in a penal statute, have.the same meaning.^
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Right of search. The right of a public vessel to examine and inspect the papers of a neutral vessel; of a suspected slaver, &c.; on the high seas, and the goods on board. Right of viray. A right enjoyed by a person or corporation of passing over land the fee of which is vested in another party. This right may be subject to such conditions and restrictions as are specified in the grant, or sanctioned by the custom, by virtue of which the right exists. Rights of way are susceptible of almost infinite variety: they may be limited both as to the intervals at which they may be used (as a way to church), and as to the actual extent of the user authorized (as a footway, horseway, or carriage-way). See Waslib. Easem.; Gale Easem. A grant of right of way, made to a railroad company, should be understood as embracing the hind only used as a way for the road, and not such additional ground as may be used for the convenience of the railroad, but not a part of its way. Chicago, B. & Q. R. R. Co. V. Paddock, 75 7tt.616. A man cannot have a right of way over his own land. A way, in law, is the right of going over another man's ground. Green V. Morris & Essex R. R. Co., 24 N..7. L. 486.