Law Dictionary

I. I. A jury, — so called because sworn well and truly to try the issue, etc.; the jurata, or common jury of the ancient law, otherwise called jurata patriae, a jury of the country

I. I In old English law. A juror; a compurgator. Juratores: jurors. Jnratores assisae: jurors of the assise. Juratores debent esse minus snspecti: jurors ought to be free from susp

In right of the church. 1 Bl. Comm. 401.

I. Belonging to law; relating to the administration of justice in or by a court v. Dies juridicus.

Z. In the civil law. One who is consulted on matters of law; a learned person who gives counsel on questions of law; a jurisconsult

In equity practice. That part of a bill which is intended to give jurisdiction of the suit to the court, by a general averment that the acts complained of are contrary to equity, a

In old English law. Amenable; summonable.

Hun-dredors ; lords of the hundreds ; they who had the jurisdiction of hundreds and held the hundred courts.

Justices appointed by Richard I. to carry into effect the laws and orders which he had made for regulating the money contracts of the Jews. Brown.

In old English law. Judges of a pyepowder court, of a most transcendant jurisdiction, anciently authorized by the bishop of Winchester, at a fair held on St. Giles' hills near that

In old English law. A kind of justices appointed by King Edward I. upon occasion of great disorders in the realm, during his absence in the Scotch and French wars. They were a kind

jnstltiare, I. I In old English law. To justice; to do justice or right; to compel a person to appear in court Justiciari: to be justiced; to have justice.

L L In old English law. ■ Judicature, prerogative or jurisdiction.

The killing of a human creature without fault or blame, as by command of the law.

A showing of reason why an act complained of might lawfully be done; the procedure by which the competency or sufflciency of bail is made out

I. Justica Jastitla debet esse libera, quia niliil iniquius Yenali jnstitia; plena, qnia jnstitia non debet claudicare; et celeris, qnia dilatio est qnsedam neg'atio: justice ought

Speedy justice. Bract. 333b.

I I Justices. Jnstitiarii de Banco: justices of the Bench. Jnstitiai'ii de ntroqne Banco, or ntrinsqne Banci: justices of either Bench. Jnstitiarii regis de Banco apud Westmonaster

I. In the civil law. An intermission in the administration of justice; vacation time.

I. Just; right; lawful; according to law.

Garnishant—33—warning—defending. Moirent de disette—3i—die for Want—die in the Deserts. If the word defends made use of in a defendant’s plea had been considered as derived from th

I In old English law. Inferior clerks of chancery, so called.

The whole of a thing which is to he done. In this sense it is employed in the I Civil Code of Louisiana (article 2727): I "To build by plot, or to work by the job," says that artic

In general.—The term "job access and reverse commute project" means a transportation project to finance planning, capital, and operating costs that support the developmen

In commercial law. One who buys and sells articles for others. One who buys from importers, and sells to retailers. 4 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 587. I I One who sells to any one who comes

The term "Job Corps" means the Job Corps described in section 2883 of this title. / The term “Job Corps” means the Job Corps described in section 3193 of this title .

The term "Job Corps center" means a center described in section 2887 of this title. / The term “Job Corps center” means a center described in section 3197 of this title .

The term “job-creating entity” means any organization formed in the United States for the ongoing conduct of lawful business, including sole proprietorship, partnership (whether li

The term “job finding club” means a job search workshop which includes a period (1 to 2 weeks) of structured, supervised activity in which participants attempt to obtain jobs.

What Congress has commanded is that any tests used must measure the person for the job and not the person in the abstract.

The term "jobs accelerator" means a jobs accelerator center or program located in or serving a low-income rural community that may provide co-working space, in-demand ski

The term “job search program” means a job search workshop or job finding club.

The term “job search workshop” means a short (1 to 3 days) seminar designed to provide participants with knowledge that will enable the participants to find jobs. Subjects are not

Jewels.

A small farm.

The term "jockey" means a rider or driver of a covered horse in covered horseraces.

In old English law. A little farm or manor. Cowell; Blount. JOCUS (Lat.) In old English law. A game I of hazard. Reg. Orig. 290. I I

A game of chance.

In old English practice. A divided game, risk, or hazard. An I arrangement which the parties to a suit Were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain h

King of England, 1199-1216.

A name given in legal proceedings to a party whose true name is unknown. It was the name which was usually given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ej

But there was an intermediate stage when the bail were required to be men of flesh and blood — money being of no consequence. Hence it became a regular profession to stand about th

A warrant of arrest which describes the defendant by a fictitious name.

The name which was usually given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ejectment. He was sometimes called “Goodlitle.” So the Romans had their fictitious

September 20, 17S9; resigned June 29, 1795. John Rutledge, September 26, 1789; declined. William Cushing, September 27, 1789; died September 13, 1810. Robert H. Harrison, September

December 19, 1800; declined.

January 31, 1S01; died July 6, 1835. William Johnson, March 26, 1804; died August 11, 1834. Brockkolst Livingston, November 10, 1806; recommissioned January 16, 1807; died March 18

commissioned July 1, 1795, in the recess of Congress; on December 10, 1795, his nomination was sent to the Senate and rejected December 10, 1795.

To act jointly with another. See 96 Tex. 341, 97 Am. St. Rep. 911, 72 S. W. 583.

Joining; coupling; uniting. See Joint. Joinder in denmrrer. Accepting the issue tendered b)' defendant. See Dbmueree. Joinder of actions or causes of action. Stating more than one

A joining or uniting together; persons or things together; as of several persons as plaintiffs or defendants in one suit, or of several causes of action, or counts, in one declarat

The formal answer made to a demurrer at common law.

The formal acceptance of the tender of an issue of fact. See Similiter .

Accepting the issue, and mode of trial tendered, either by demurrer, error, or issue, in fact, by the opposite party.

Joinder of two or more causes of action in the same complaint or declaration.

See "Joinder of Actions."

In proceedings on a writ of error in criminal cases, the joinder of error is a written denial of the errors alleged in the assignment of errors. It answers to a joinder of issue in

The acceptance by one party of an issue of fact tendered by the other.

If the plaintiff alleges that the concurrent negligence of the railroad company and its employee... was the cause of his injury, he has a right to join them in one action. If he el

The uniting of several distinct offenses in one indictment or information.

The uniting of two or more persons as coparties, either plaintiff or defendant.

United; sharing an interest; sharing liability.

An action brought by two or more as plaintiffs, or against two or more as defendants.

The general rule certainly is, that if two or more persons are sued in a joint action, the Plaintiff cannot proceed to obtain a judgment against one alone, but must wait until the

An enterprise undertaken by several persons jointly to carry out a single business enterprise for profit. 206 Mich. 153.

The term “joint agreement” means a formal written contract pursuant to which two or more financial institutions jointly offer, endorse, or sponsor a financial product or service, a

A liability is said to be Joint and several when the creditor may sue one or more of the parties to such liability separately, or all of them together at his option. Dicey, Parties

A bond of two or more obligors, who bind themselves jointly and severally to the obligees, who can sue all the obligors jointly, or any one of them separately, for the whole amoimt

A bond of two or more obligors, who bind themselves jointly and severally to the obligees, who can sue all the obligors jointly, or any one of them separately, for the whole amount

The liability which arises from a joint and several contract contains distinct engagements, that of each contractor individually, and that of all jointly, and different remedies ma

The principle is, that a contract, made by copartners, is several, as well as joint, and the assumpsit is made by all, and by each. It is obligatory on all, and on each of the part

persons engaged in committing the same trespass are joint and several trespassers, and not joint trespassers exclusively. Like persons liable on a joint and several contract, they

In parliamentary practice, a joint ballot is an election or vote by ballot participated in by the members of bath houses of a legislative assembly sitting together as one body, the

The bond of two or more obligors, the action to enforce which must be joint against them all.

The term “joint capability requirement” means a capability that is critical or essential to address a joint operational problem.

A committee composed of members of both houses of a legislature. See May, Pari, Pr.

A joint committee of a legislative body comprising two chambers is a committee consisting of repre sentatives of each of the twu houses, meeting and acting together as one committe

One in which the contractors are jointly bound to perform the promise or obligation therein -contained, or entitled to receive the benefit of such promise or obligation.

We hold it a sound rule of law, that a joint contract can never be defeated by the mere private contract of an individual of the concern, to whom the other parties have confided no

The term “joint costs” means the difference between the capital cost of the entire multiple-purpose project and the sum of the separable costs for all project purposes.

a covenant may be construed to be joint or several, according to the interests of the parties appearing upon the face of the obligation, if the words are capable of such a construc

Persons jointly holding the same debt or demand.

Statutes enacted in many of the states, which provide that judgment may be given for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defenda

Persons united in a joint liability or indebtedness.

Statutes enacted in many of the states, which provide that judgment may be given for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defenda

the term “Joint Declaration” means the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic o

Same as Coexecutor.

Those who are joined in the execution of a will.

Co-executors; two or more who are joined in the execution ofa will.

A flat in bankruptcy, issued against two or more trading partners. Wharton,

In old English law. "If a whole vill is to be fined, a joint fine may be laid, and it will be good for the necessity of it; but, in other cases, fines for offenses are to be severa

The term “joint fires” has the meaning given such term in the publication of the Joint Staff entitled “Insights and Best Practices Focus Paper on Integration and Synchronization of

A coheir.

Co-heirs. The term is also applied to those 'Who are or will be heirs to bath of two designated persons at the death of the survivor of them, the word "joint" being here applied to

One indictment brought against two or more offenders, charging the defendants jointly. It may be where there is a joint criminal act, without any regard to any particular personal

The term "joint intermediate level school" includes the National Intelligence University.

The terms “joint inventor” and “coinventor” mean any 1 of the individuals who invented or discovered the subject matter of a joint invention.

in case of a joint contract, strictly speaking, the plaintiff must sue all or one, yet if he does sue any intermediate number, and the defendants do not avail themselves of this, b

those applicable only when the lines embraced in the route are not under common ownership or control.

This expression, which is met with more frequently in English books, applies when a right is granted to two or more persons, to be enjoyed while both or all of them shall live. Abb