Law Dictionary

The term “Advisory Board” means the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board. / The term “Advisory Board” means the National Agricultural

The term "Advisory Commission" means the Advisory Commission established under section 1541 1 of this title.

(A) The term “Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines” means the Commission established under section 300aa–19 of this title.

any committee, board, commission, council, conference, panel, task force, or other similar group, or any subcommittee or other subgroup thereof.

The term "Advisory Council" means the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council established under subsection (f)(1).

To revise or review an administrative decision, which has only the force of a recommendation to the President, would be to render an advisory opinion in its most obnoxious form—adv

The term “Advisory Panel” means the President’s National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel established or designated under section 7503 of this title . / The term “advisory panel” mean

The term “advisory review” means reviewing and providing advisory comments on DTC advertisements regarding compliance of a proposed advertisement with the requirements of this chap

The term “advisory review fee” has the meaning indicated for such term in subsection (a)(1)(D).

For life.

For life, or until misbehavior. Words descriptive of a tenure of office "for life or good behavior," equivalent to guamdiu bene se gesserit.

Lat. For life, or untU misbehavior. In Scotch law. A term of similar import with ^uomdiu bene se gesserit (q. v.) in English law. Stat 28 Geo. 11. c. 7. Jacob.

It is not the abstract 'doctrine' of overthrowing organized government by unlawful means which is denounced by the statute, but the advocacy of action for the accomplishment of tha

the terms “community”, “public”, and “advocacy group” include representatives of organizations advocating for the education of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian c

The mere abstract teaching of Communist theory, including the teaching of the moral propriety or even moral necessity for a resort to force and violence, is not the same as prepari

Lat To defend; to call to one's aid; to vouch; to warrant.

L. Fr. The office of an advocate: advocacy. Kelham.

In old English law. A patroness; a woman who had the right of presenting to a church. Liber Ramesiens, § 140, cited in Spelman, voc. "Advocatus."

to urge or 'to plead in favor of; * * * to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly * * *'; '(2) the word 'teach' means 'to instruct * * * show how * * * to guide the studies of *

QUEEN'S (or KING'S). See "Queen's Advocate." ADVOCATI (Lat.) In Roman law. Patrons; pleaders; speakers. Anciently, any one who lent his aid to a friend, and who was supposed to be

QUEEN’S. A member of the College of Advocates, appuinted by letters patent, whose office is to advise and act as counsel for the crown in questions of civil, canon, and internation

The adviser of the crown in England on questions of naval and military law.

The principal crown lawyer in Scotland, and one of the great officers of state of Scotland. It is his duty to act as public prosecutor; but private individuals injured may prosecut

A member of the College of Advocates, appointed by letters patent, whose office is to advise and act as counsel for the crown in questions of civil, canon, and international law. H

The term “advocates” includes, but is not limited to, advises, recommends, furthers by overt act, and admits belief in.

In Roman law, patrons, pleaders.

In civil law. The function, duty, or privilege of an advocate. Du Cange.

A term used in the ecolesiastical law to denote the patrons of churches who presented to the living on an avoidance. This term was also applied to those who were retained to argue

Advocates of the church. These were of two sorts; those retained as pleaders to argue the cases of the church and attend to its law matters, and advocates, or patrons of the advows

In Civil Law. Those chosen by the emperor to argue his cause whenever a question arose affecting his revenues. 3 Bla. Com. 27.

In the civil law. Advocates of the fiscj or revenue; fiscal advocates, (qui causam fisc egissent.) Cod. 2, 9, 1; Id. 2, 7, 13. Answering, in soine measure, to the king's counsel in

/. In the civil law. Advocates of the fisc, or revenue; fiscal advocates.

An advowson.

In Scotch law. The removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior court by virtue of a writ or warrant issuing from the superior court. See "Bill of Advocation;" "Letter of Advo

A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.

In Old Practice. One who called on or vouched another to warrant a title; a voucher. Advocatus, the person called on, or vouched; a vouchee. Spelman; Towns. PI. 45. In Scotch Pract

A pleader; a narrator. Bracton, fols. 372b, 412a.

The devil's advocate; a person designated to present to the college of cardinals matter in opposition to a canonization.

AD QUEM PERTInent Jus advocationis alicujus ecclesiae, ut ad eccleslam, nomine proprio, non alieno, possit praesentare. A patron is he to whom appertains the right of presentation

A patron is one who has the right of presentation to a church and who can present to the church in his own name and not that of another.

A patron is he to whom appertains the right of presentation to a church, in such a manner that he may present to such a church in his own name, and not in the name of another. Co.

A fiscal advocate.

At will.

At the will of the master.

In old English law. An adulterer. Beaty v. Richardson, 56 S. C. 173, 34 S. E. 73, 46 In R. A. 517.

Adultery.

advoe, I. fr. A person skilled in the law; an advocata

fr. To avow; to admit; to acknowledge and justify, v. Advocare; Avow.

In English ecclesiastical law.

The person or patron who has a right to present to a benefice. Flete, lib. 5, c. 14. —Advowee paramount. The sovereign, or highest patron.

The sovereign, who was the highest advowee.

A right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the "patron" or "advocate." When there is no patron, or he neglects to exercise his right wit

An advowson annexed to the possession of a manor.

An advowson wherein the patron is the bishop.

An advowson whereby the patron may give a church or a chapel without presentation, institution or induction.

An advowson annexed to the person of the owner and not to his manor or lands.

An advowson whereby the patron has a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary.

The usual kind of advowson, where the patron has the right of presentation to the bishop, or ordinary, and moreover to demand of him to institute his clerk, if he finds him canonic

or ADVOUTRY. In English law. The crime committed by a woman who, having committed adultery, continued to live with the adulterer. Cowell; Termes de la Ley. AEDES (Lat.) In civil la

See "Waractum."

2 A person twenty-one or more years of age. Where an assault becomes " aggravated, when committed by an adult male on a female or a child, or by an adult female on a child," " adul

Inecclesiastical law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form to be converted inte papal bulls. Bouvier. by buy

I. fr. In old English law. To pull or hook; to usurp; to attempt to exercise; to proces: to stay a process.

/. To accuse; to charge with an offense. se debet nisi coram Deo: no one is bound to before God. v. Nemo tenetur, etc.

A dwelling-house.

He burned the dwelling of another.

To build a house.

One may not build on his own land what may injure another.

SOLO CEDIT. That which is built upon the land goes with the land. Co. Litt. 4a; Broom, Leg. Max.

A building goes with the land on which it stands.

Buildings pass by a grant of the land. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2, § 12. AEDILE (Lat.) In Roman law. An officer who attended to' the repairs of the temples and other public buildings; the

A Roman officer who superintended the care of public buildings, streets, weights and measures, funerals, games and the prices of provisions.

A Roman law which provided the purchaser a remedy for the unsoundness of a slave or animal sold with knowledge of the defect.

In old English law. The remuneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods. AEGROTO (Lat. ablative of aegrotus, s

A grandfather.

The law’s disposition of a matter is more just than thafr'of a man.

Equity.

Equity acts upon the person. 4 Bouv. Inst, note 3733.

Equity relieves against accidents.

Equity as the daughter of conscience complies with rules of court.

Equity supplies defects.

Equity corrects errors.

Equity is equality.

Equity corrects a law which is too broad in that particular in which it is defective. See 5 L. R. A. 340.

Equity is a certain correction applied to the law, because on account of the law,s general comprehension, without any exception, something is lacking.

Equity is a certain perfect reasoning, which interprets and amends the written law not embraced in any writing but consisting simply in true reason.

Equity is a sort of equality.

Equity is the plain interpretation of words of law in such manner as that where one thing only is guarded against by the words, all other things of the same kind are also guarded a

Equity is the virtue of the will, the corrector of that in which the law on account of its universality is deficient.

Equity generally makes some exception from a broad legal principle.

Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness.

Equity gives the power of the law to him who wishes to observe it.

Equity requires like laws for like cases.

Equity does not confuse jurisdiction.

Equity favors livery and seisin.

Equity does not change the nature of a thing.

Equity aids no man to the injury of another.

Equity does not make the law but assists the law.

Equity does not cure defects in positive requirements of the law.

Equity does not suffer him who holds a true right to prosecute it to extremes.