Law Dictionary

In the civil law. An assessment oath; an oath, taken by the plaintiff in an action, that the extent of the damages he has suffered, estimated in money, amounts to a certain sum, wh

In the civil law. An oath which the judge, of his own accord, defers to either of the parties. It is of two kinds; First, that which the judge defers for the decision of the cause,

In Roman law. A compulsory oath A disclosure under oath, which the prætor compelled one of the parties to a suit to make, when the other, applying for such an appeal, agreed to abi

In Roman law. A voluntary oath. A species of appeal to conscience, by which one of the parties to a suit, instead of proving his case, offered to abide by what his adversary should

An oath.

In the civil and canon law. The oath of calumny. An oath imposed upon both parties to a suit, as a preliminary to its trial, to the effect that they are not influenced by malice or

Oath of calumny, required in civil law actions of both parties, disclaiming malice.

A corporal oath. See Oath.

An oath is indivisible; it is not to be held partly true and partly false. 4 Inst 274.

An oath is indivisible; it is not to be received as partly true and partly false.

Inthe civillaw. An oath which*the judge, of his own accord, defers to either of the parties. It is of two kinds: First, that which the judge defers for the decision of the cause, a

In Roman law. A necessary (compulsory) oath. A statement under oath which might be required of a party on his adversary agreeing to be bound thereby.

In Roman law. A voluntary oath, which a party might make on the offer of his adversary to be bound thereby. He was not, however, compelled to accept the offer, as in case of the ju

In old English law. Rights of mixed dominion. The king's right or power of jurisdiction was so termed. Hale, Anal. § 6.

The laws of nature are unchangeable. Branch, Princ; Oliver, Forms, 56. JURA PERSONARUM (Lat.) In civil law. Rights which belong to men in their different characters or relations, a

Rights which concern and are annexed to one’s person. See 1 Bl. Comm. 122.

In civil law. The rights of estates. Dig. 50. 16. 86. JURA PUBLICA ANTEFERENDA PRIvatis. Public rights are to be preferred to private. Co. Litt. 130. JURA PUBLICA EX PRIVATO PROMIS

Public rights are to be preferred to private ones.

Public rights ought not to be decided promiscuously with private. Co. Litt 130a, 181b.

Public rights ought not to be determined promiscuously with a private one.

To swear; to take an oath. JURARE EST DEUM IN TESTEM VOcare, et est actus divinj cultus. To swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of religion. 8 Inst. 165. See 3 Bouv. Ins

3 Inst. 165. To swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of religion.

To swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of divine reverence.

Royal rights.

Royal rights.

Special rights are not granted by the crown in general terms.

Rights of things; the rights of things; rights which a man may acquire over external objects or things unconnected with his person. 1 Bl. Comm. 122; 2 Bl. Comm. 1. JURA SANGUINIS N

The right of blood and kindred cannot be destroyed by any civll law. Dig. 50, 17, 9; Bac. Max. reg. 11; Broom, Max. 533; Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen (Mass.) 562.

The rights of consanguinity cannot be abrogated by any civil law. See 14 Allen {Mass.), 562.

Rights of supreme dominion; rights of sovereignty. 1 Bl. Comm. 49; 1 Kent, Comm. 211. JURAMENTAE CORPORALES (Lat.) Corporal oaths. These oaths are so called because the party makin

In practice. That part of an affidavit where the officer certifies that the same was "sworn" before him, and when and where.

A jury.

The act of swearing; the administration of an oath.

He who makes oath is to be believed in judgment. 3 Inst. 79.

A juror; a compurgator (g. v.).

sufficientes et minus suspecti..Turors ought to be neighbors, of sufficient estate, and free from suspicion. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 141.

Jurors ought to be neighbors, sufficiently well off and free from suspicion.

Jurors are the judges of the facts. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 68.

Jenk. Cent 61. Juries are the judges of fact

A security sometimes taken in Scotch proceedings, when no better can be had, viz., an inventory of effects given up upon oath, and assigned in security of the sums which may be fou

Sworn officers.

By law; in law; by 'nght.

juree, I fr. A jury.

By right of alluvion.

By the right or law of war. 1 Kent, Comm. 126; 1 C. Rob. Adm. 289. JURE CIVILL By the civil law. Inst. 1. 3. 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 423.

By the civil law.

In right of the crown.

By divine right 1 Bl. Comm. 191.

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

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

By the right or

By the right or law of emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232. See Emphyteusis.

By the law of nations. Inst. 1, 3, 4; 1 Bi. Comm. 423.

NEMInem cum alterlus detrimento, et Injuria flare locupletlorem. According to the laws of nature, it is just that no one should be enriched with detriment and injury to another, i.

By natural law it is just that no one should be enriched by another loss or injury.

By right of relationnship.

By right of representation.

By right of representation ; in the right of another person. 2 Bi. Comm. 224, 517; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 1019, § 2398.

In the right of the wife.

Pertaining to law or to its administration.

A day proper for the transaction of business in court; one on which the court may lawfully sit, excluding Sundays and some holidays.

Days in court on which the laws are administered.

Such as is proper to be adduced before, and considered by, the courts of justice. See Mead v. Husted, 52 Conn. 53, 52 Am. Rep. 554.

In the law of its creation, the sociedad is consistently regarded as a juridical person. It may contract, own property, and transact business, sue and be sued in its own name and r

This proceeding involved an ascertainment and settlement of the boundaries of the lands granted by the appropriate officers of the government, specially designated for that purpose

Juridical.

It is not consonant to justice that any accessary should be convicted in the king's court before any one has been attainted of the fact. 2 Inst 183.

It is not consonant with the law that any accessory should be convicted in the king’s court before any one has been attainted of the fact.

Lat. Of right; of law. —Juris et de jure. Of law and of right. A presumption juris et de jure, or an irrebuttable presumption, is one which the law will not suffer to be rebutted b

The effect of the law consists in the execution. Ch Litt. 289b.

A jurist; a person skilled in the science of law, particularly of international or public law.

One learned in the law.

Learned in the law.

Jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, through the necessity of administering the law.

the courts' statutory or constitutional power to adjudicate the case.

Pertaining to; essential to or conferring jurisdiction. JURISPERITUS (Lat. from jus, law Ijuris, of law], and peritua, skilled). Skilled or learned in the law.

The rule applicable generally to suits for injunction to restrain a nuisance, a continuing trespass, or the like, viz., that the jurisdictional amount is to be tested by the value

When two or more plaintiffs having separate and distinct demands unite in a single suit, it is essential that the demand of each be of the requisite jurisdictional amount; but when

A court that renders judgment against a defendant thereby tacitly asserts, if it does not do so expressly, that it has jurisdiction over that defendant. But it must be taken to be

The defect is not jurisdictional in the sense that it deprives the court of power to allow the appeal. The court has discretion, where the scope of review is not affected, to disre

a dispute between two or more groups of employees over which is entitled to do certain work for an employer

a jurisdictional dispute under § 8(b)(4)(D) ... is a dispute between two or more groups of employees over which is entitled to do certain work for an employer

wherever a judgment is given by a court having jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject-matter, the exercise of jurisdiction warrants the presumption, in favor of a purchaser

a judgment is entitled to full faith and credit—even as to questions of jurisdiction—when the second court's inquiry discloses that those questions have been fully and fairly litig

The term “jurisdictional rates” means rates accepted or established by the Commission for the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce, the sale of electric energy at

In equity pracby a general averment that the acta complained of are contrary to ecpiity, and tend to the injury of the plaintiff, and that he has no remedy, or not a complete remed

[A] question [of jurisdiction] is in issue only when the District Court's power to hear and determine the cause as defined and limited by the Constitution or statutes of the United

In a civil suit in personam, jurisdiction over the defendant, as distinguished from venue, implies, among other things, either voluntary appearance by him or service of process upo

while the general rule in regard to jurisdiction in rem requires the actual seizure and possession of the res by the officer of the court, such jurisdiction may be acquired by acts

the controlling factor being, not where the property is situated, but did it pass to the trustee, and is it a part of the estate subject to administration under the direction of th

Its action is on equitable rights, by equitable remedies; or legal rights for which the law provides no remedy, or none so adequate as equity, so beneficial or complete.

the subordinate judicial tribunals of the United States can exercise only such jurisdiction, civil and criminal, as may be authorized by acts of Congress. ... 'courts which origina

jurisdiction of the person of a defendant, (who is an inhabitant of another State,) can only be obtained, in a civil action, by service of process on his person, within the distric

obtained by a seizure under process of the court, whereby it is held to abide such order as the court may make concerning it

the power to decide the issues in the suit

Of the action at law, the circuit court had jurisdiction; and no change in the residence or condition of the parties can take away a jurisdiction which has once attached.

Jurisdiction over a corporation of one state cannot be acquired in another state or district in which it has no place of business and is not found, merely by serving process upon a

The property interest which it created was an intangible, jurisdiction over which cannot be exerted through control over a physical thing. Jurisdiction over an intangible can indee

The jurisdiction of the district court over parties is acquired only by a service of process, or their voluntary appearance. It has no authority to issue process to another State.