neighborhood
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
Definitions from Case Law
From 413 U.S. 189 - Keyes v. School District No 1 Denver Colorado · 1973Most cited · 1,532 citing opinions
relative proximity, to a preference for a school nearer to, rather than more distant from, home.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The immediately adjacent locality. See 27 Mo. App. 584; 63 N. H. 246; as applied to place, signifies nearness, as opposed to remoteness, 63 N. H. 246. Vicinity does not denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediate vicinity. 27 Mo. App. 584, 190 111. 625. NEMBA (Teut.)
In Swedish and Gothic law. A jury. 3 Bl. Comm. 349, 359; Barr. Obs. St. 18, note (z). NEMINE CONTRADICENTE (usually abbreviated nem. con.) Words used to signify the unanimous consent of the house to which they are applied. In England, they are used in the house of commons; in the house of lords, the words used to convey the same idea are nemine dissentiente.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A surrounding or adjoining district. It depends upon no arbitrary rule of distance or topography. The neighborhood of a person will cover a larger space in a sparsely settled country than in a city; State v. J tingling, 116 Mo. 1G2, 22 S. W. 688. See Peters v. Bourneau, 22 111. App. 179; Langley v. Barnstead, 63 N. H. 246. It is not synonymous with territory or district, but is a collective noun, with the suggestion of proximity, and refers to the units which make up its whole, as well as to the region which comprehends those units. A interests. Lindsay Irr. Co. v. Mehrtens, 97 Cal. 676, 32 Pac. 803. NEMINE CONTRA DICENTE (usually abbreviated ncm. con.). Words used to signify the unanimous consent of the house to which they are applied. In England, they are used in the house of commons; in the house of lords, the words used to convey the same idea are nomine disaentiente.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A place near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more im- Mediate vicinity; vicinage. See 63 N. H. 247; 3N. Y. 502; 88 Iowa, 484.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Under Iowa Eev., § 3362, requiring for an appraisement of laud at judicial sale two householders " of the neighborhood," one residing thirty-five miles from the land is not prima facie " of the neighborhood; " the sparsely settled condition of the county in the vicinity must be shown affirmatively to establish his competency to serve. Woods V. Cochrane, 38 Iowa, 484.