Law Dictionary

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.

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