Law Dictionary

The 14th Amendment did not, in guarantying due process of law, abridge the jurisdiction which a state possessed over property within its borders, regardless of the residence or pre

Consent alone gives jurisdiction to adjudge against a sovereign. Absent that consent, the attempted exercise of judicial power is void.

it must appear affirmatively from the record, not only that a federal question was presented for decision to the highest court of the state having jurisdiction, but that its decisi

Ordinarily jurisdiction over a person is based on the power of the sovereign asserting it to seize that person and imprison him to await the sovereign's pleasure. But when that pow

the question whether, considering the nature of the cause of action asserted and the relief prayed by plaintiff, the court had power to adjudicate concerning the subject-matter of

We regard the exception as encompassing those dismissals which are based on a plaintiff's failure to comply with a precondition requisite to the Court's going forward to determine

Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), including section 2241 of title 28 , or any other habeas corpus provision, and sections 1361 and 1651 of suc

When we speak of the jurisdiction to tax land or chattels as being exclusively in the state where they are physically located, we mean no more than that the benefit and protection

No doubt it sometimes may be difficult to decide whether certain words in a statute are directed to jurisdiction or to merits, but the distinction between the two is plain. One goe

Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, on account of the necessity of dispensing justice. 10 Coke, 73a.

The effect of law rests in its execution.

Of law and by law, a term applied to conclusive presumptions. See Conclusive presumption .

The union of right and seisin. See Seisin .

The union of seism or possession and the right of possession, forming a complete title. 2 Bi. Comm. 199, 311.

The law of nations.

It is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights. Haven v. Foster, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 130, 19 Am. Dec. 353.

Lat. A student of the civil law.

Learned in the law.

Positive, as destinguished from natural, law. JURIS PUBLICI (Lat.) Of common right; of common or public use; such things as, at least in their own use, are common to all the king's

These are the precepts of the law: To live honorably; to hurt nobody; to render to every one his due. Inst 1, 1, 3; 1 Bl. Comm. 40.

The precepts of law are this.

the rule is confined to conveniences made public because the privilege of maintaining them has been granted by the government or because there has arisen what may be termed a const

The science of the law; the practical science of giving a wise interpretation to the laws, and making a just application of them to all cases as they arise. By science, in the firs

Jurisprudence.

Jurisprudence is knowledge of things divine and human; the science of the just and the unjust.

The jurisprudence of the English common law is a science social and copious.

Of common right.

One versed in the science of the law; one skilled in the civil law; one skilled in the law of nations.

Pertaining or belonging to or characteristic of, jurisprudence or a jurist or the legal profession. —Juristic act. One designed to have a legal effect, and capable thereof.

One of legal eflcaoy.

The term “person” and any other word or term used to designate the applicant or other entitled to a benefit or privilege or rendered liable under the provisions of this chapter inc

A writ of right for a parson to recover land alienated by a predecessor.

In old English law. A journey; a day's traveling. Coweli.

In Spanish law. A certain pension granted by the king on the public revenues, and more especially on the salt works, by favor, either in consideration of meritorious services, or i

A member of a jury.

We think it was not erroneous for the presiding Judge to treat the physical inability of the juror as simply creating a vacancy on the panel, and proceeding to fill it in the usual

“juror qualification form” shall mean a form prescribed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States, which

A list of persons qualified to serve on juries.

That kind of discrimination contravenes the very idea of a jury—'a body truly representative of the community,' composed of 'the peers or equals of the person whose rights it is se

A place set apart for the jury to sit in during the trial of a cause.

An officer charged with the duty of selecting the names to be put into the jury wheel, or of drawing the panel of jurors for a particular term of court

The privilege takes as its postulate a genuine relation, honestly created and honestly maintained. If that condition is not satisfied, if the relation is merely a sham and a preten

A jury composed half of citizens and half of the nationality of one of the parties to the action.

A paper containing the names of jurors impanelled to try a cause, or it contains the names of all the jurors summoned to attend court.'

A juror; one who is impanelled on a jury. Webster.

A jury called to examine into and report on public nuisances.

See "Jury Worn-

A Jury of women Is given In two cases; viz.: on writ de ventre jinspiciendo, which was a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him that, in the presence of twelve men and as man

In practice. The writs for summoning a jury, viz., in England, venire juratores facias, and distringae juratores, or habeas corpora juratorum. These writs are now abolished, and ju

“jury summons” shall mean a summons issued by a clerk of court, jury commission, or their duly designated deputies, containing either a preprinted or stamped seal of court, and con

“jury wheel” shall include any device or system similar in purpose or function, such as a properly programed electronic data processing system or device;

One member of a jury of matrons, (q. vt)

A jury of women was given in two cases, viz., on writ de ventre inspidendo, in which case the jury was made up of men and women, but the search is made by the latter (1 Madd. 11; 2

Right in general or in the abstract; justice or equity. Law in general; law as distinguished from equity. A rule of law; a statute or regulation. Power or authority. An action; a c

The right of renunciation ; the right of an heir, under the Roman law, to renounce or decline the inheritance, as, for example, where his acceptance, in consequence of the necessit

The right to abuse, i. e., full ownership.

The right of survivorship.

The right of survivorship has no place among merchants, for the benefit of commerce.

The right of survivorship has no place betwcen merchants, for the benefit of commerce. Co. Litt. 182a; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. § 1207; Broom, Max. 455. There is no survivorship in cases

The right of survivorship is preferred to encumbrances.

The right of survivorship is preferred to the last will. See 2 Bl. Comm. 184.

In Roman Law. A rural servitude giving to a person a passage for carriages, or for cattle. a right to property not In possession, as distinguished from jus in re, which implies the

A right to a thing. See 3 Bl. Comm. 312.

We agree, that until the survey of the township and the designation of the specific section, the right of the State rests in compact—binding, it is true, the public faith, and depe

The right of primogeniture.

The right of the king by confiscation or escheat to the property of a deceased foreigner unless he had a peculiar exemption. This prerogative was abolished in 1790. 1 Bla. Com. 372

See Anoabia; Anoabt, Right or.

The right to exact service of a vassal.

The laws and customs of the West Saxons, in the time of the Heptarchy, by which the people were for a long time governed, and which were preferred before all others. Wharton. JUS A

The servitude of conducting water over another’s land.

Same as Jus aquaeductus.

In the civil law. The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another.

In old English law. The right of bench; the right or privilege of having an elevated and separate seat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king's judges, who hence were said

The right of bench, an elevated judge's seat.

The law of war; the law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The righ

The right to declare war.

The right to declare war.

The canon law. JUS CIVILE (Lat.) In Roman law. The private law, in contradistinction to the JUS CIVILE EST QUOD SIBI POPULUS constituit. The civil law is what a people establishes

The civil law.

The civil law is that which a people establishes for itself. See 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 424.

The right of citizenship.

The right of citizenship; the freedom of the city of Rome. It differs from jus quiritium, which comprehended all the privileges of a free native of Rome. The difference is much the

In the civll law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground of o

(Lat.) In civil law. The name of a servitude which requires the party who is subject to it to permit his neighbor to conduct the waters which fall on his grounds over those of the

In Civil Law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singular e (q. v.). Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 196. In English Law. The common law, answering to the S

Law ought to be established in respect to those matters which occur most often, not those which occur unexpectedly.

Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence. Dig. 1, 3, 3; Broom, Max. 43.

In English law. The right of the crown or to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comin. 434.

The right of succession to the throne of Great Britain. JUS CURIALITATiS ANGLIiC. The right of curtesy. See Curtesy. JUS DARE (Lat). To enact or to make the law. Jus dare belongs t

In English law. The right of the crown, or, rather, to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comm. 434.

In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. St. Tr. 118.

In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. State Tr. 118.

In English law. The right of curtesy. Spelman. JUS DARE (Lat.) To give or to make the law. Jus dare belongs to the legislature; jus dicere, to the judge. JUS DELIBERANDI (Lat.) The

To make law.

The right of deliberating.

ET NON TERRA. A right descends, not the land. Co. Litt. 345. JUS DICERE (Lat.) To declare the law. It is the province of the court jus dicere, to declare what the law is.

The right descends, not the land.

A phrase formerly used in Scotch ecclesiastical law to “designate the right which devolved on the presbytery to present a minister to a vacant parish or beneflee, in case the patro

NON JUS DARE. To declare the law, not to make it. 7 Term R. 561; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 140. JUS DISPONENDI (Lat.) The right to dispose of a thing.

To declare the law, not to make the law. See 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 566.