Law Dictionary

Current treasury notes of the United States. See 17 Minn. 241.

The legal title must rest upon entry, survey, registry and patent; and it will be admitted that a legal title cannot be in any one until a patent has been issued; and further, that

a vote recorded on a ballot that clearly reflects what the voter intended.

the characterization of that state-created claim as legal or equitable for purposes of whether a right to jury trial is indicated must be made by recourse to federal law

In Virginia, the moneys arising from the sale of personal property are called legal assets, in the hands of an executor or administrator; and those which arise from the sale of rea

Services rendered under the requirements of law or of contract, for which a compensation is fixed, constitute a legal demand. Services rendered under an authority which is casual,

such a wrong as is specified in section 10(e).

The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Popes Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Hen. III., about the years 1220 an

The alloy of money. Spelman.

To leave by legacy.

(Lat.) In the civil law. One to whom a thing is bequeathed; a lega-, tee, or legatary. Bract, fol. 40. In old European law. A legate, messenger, or envoy. Spelman.

A legatee to whom the testator has in his will instructed his heir to give a definite share of his universal succession. This kind of legacy was called a legacy of partition (legat

One to whom anything Is bequeathed; a legatee. This word is sometimes, though seldom, used to designate a legate or nuncio.

See Minister, 3.

The person to whom a legacy is given. See "Legacy."

Legates are extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to Catholic countries to represent him, and to exercise his jurisdiction. Thfey are distinguished from the ambassadors of the

In English law. Ecclesiastical laws enacted in national synods held under the cardinals Otho and Othobon, in the reign of Henry III., about 1320 and 1268.

An embassy.

I. A legate; an ambassador, envoy or nuncio. Legates violare contra jus gentium est: to offer violence to ambassadors is against the law of nations.

One who niakes a will, and leaves legacies

The third part of a freeman's personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and children, the freeman might always have disposed of by will. Bac. Abr. "Cust

To violate ambassadors is against the law of nations.

In Civil Law. A legacy; a gift left by will. Dig. 3136. A gift left by a deceased person to be executed by the heir. Inst. 2. 20. 1. In Common Law. A legacy. In Old Ecclesiastical

A legacy is confirmed by the death of the testator, just as a gift between living persons is confirmed by delivery alone.

In Roman law. A legacy to A. B. of any article or articles that A. B. liked to choose or select out of the testator's estate. If A. B. died after the testator, but before making th

REGIS VICE FUNGITUR A quo destinatur, et honorandus est sicut ille to be honored as he is whose place he fills. 12 Coke, 17.

An ambassador officiates in the place of the king by whom he is sent, and should be honored as much as he whose place he holds.

To lose one's law; to become infamous or outlaw.

Lat. Accusative of lex, law. Occurring in various legal phrases, as follows: —Legem amittere. To lose one's law; that is, to lose one's privilege of being admitted to take an oath.

To lose one’s law, i. e., to lose the right to make oath.

The contract makes the law. 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 215, 233. LEGEM FACERE (Law Lat.) In old English law. To make law, or oath. Legem vadiare, to wage law. Legem habere, to have law; to b

To make an oath; to wage one’s law. See Wager of law .

(Roman Law) To submit a law to the people.

To have one's law; to be a legal person. LEGEM JUBERE (or SCISCERE). In the Roman law. To give consent and authority to a proposed law; to make or pass it. Tayl. Civ. Law, 9. LEGEM

To be capable of giving evidence upon oath. Witnesses who had been convicted of crime were incapable of giving evidence, until 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85.

To ratify a proposed law.

To propound or lay down the law. By an extremely obscure derivation or analogy, this term was formerly used as a slang equivalent for payment in cash or m ready money.

To give consent and authority to a proposed law; applied to the consent of the people.

Those who lose the law of the land thereby justly incur the everlasting mark of disgrace.

Those who lose the law of the land, then justly incur the ineffaceable brand of Infamy. 3 Inst. 221.

To wage one's law. LEGES (Lat.) I In Civil Law. Laws proposed by a magistrate of the senate, and adopted by the whole people in comitia centuriata. See "Populiscitum"; "Lex." In En

To wage law. See Wager of law .

Same as Laireswite.

Laws, plural of Lex.

SCBRIPTA. Lat. In English law. Written laws; statute laws, or acts of parliament which are originally reduced into writing before they wre enacted, or receive any binding power. Ha

The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems

Lat. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems. Leges Anglis sunt tripartite,—jus commune, consuetudines, ac decreta comitiorum. The laws o

The laws of England are threefold,—common law, customs, and decrees of parliament.

The laws of England are threefold, the common law, the customs and the resolutions of parliament.

A class name for the codes of medlteval European law. For a list, see Jenks, 2 Sel. Essays in Anglo- Amer. Leg. Hist. 154.

A name used for a legal treatise written from 1130 to 1135, which presents the law in force toward the end of Henry I. Its authority is said to be undeserved. 2 Sel. Essays in Angl

The accepted name for the common law from an early time; Green, in 9 L. Q. R. 153; since the latter half of the 12th century at least; Pollock, First Book of Jurispr. 249.

The practice of fixing and refixing [making and remaking] the laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Coke, pref.

The custom of making and repealing laws is very dangerous. See 1 Bl. Comm. 89.

A book written between 1114 and 1118 containing Anglo-Saxon and Norman law. It is said to be an invaluable source of knowledge of the period preceding the full development of the N

Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. B. 767; 1 Bl. Comm. 89.

VIvunt, et moriuntur. Human laws are bom, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. B. 767; 1 Bl. Comm. 89. LEGES NATURAE PERFECTISSIMAE sunt et immutabiles; human! vero juris c

Human laws are born, live and die.

Leges hnmanæ nascuntur, vivunt, morinntur. The laws of nature are most perfect and immutable; but the condition of human law is an unending succession, and there is nothing in it w

The laws of nature are the most perfect and immutable, but the condition of human law always fails endlessly and there is nothing in it which can stand permanently.

In English law. Unwritten or customary laws, including those ancient acts of parliament which were made before time of memory. Hale, Com. Law, 5. See 1 Bl. Comm. 63, 64.

Unwritten laws.

Laws are imposed not upon words but upon things.

More recent laws repeal prior conflicting ones. See 12 Allen (Mass.), 434.

Later laws abrogate prior laws that are contrary to them. Broom, Max. 27, 29

In English law. Written laws ; statute laws, or acts of parliament which are originally reduced into writing before they are enacted. or receive any binding power. Hale, Com. Law,

Written laws, i. e., statutes.

Laws under a weightier law. Hale, Com. Law, 46, 44.

Laws subject to a higher law.

Laws should bind the proposers of them. Pleta, bk. 1, c 17, § 11. LEGES TABELLARIAE (Lat.) Roman laws regulating the mode of voting by ballot (tabella). 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note.

Laws should bind their own maker. Flete, llb. 1, c. 17, § 1L

Laws of the ballot, i. e.y election laws.

NON DORMIENtibus subveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent. Fanning; Dunham; 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 122, 145; Toole; Cook; 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142, 144. LEGIBUS SOLUTU

The laws aid the vigilant, not those who slumber. See 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142.

L In the Roman law. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. Applied to the emperor.

(Civil Law) Immune from the laws, i. e., the emperor.

lege naturae utendum est. When laws Imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Rolle, 298. ' LEGIS CONSTRUCTIO NON FACIT IN- Juriam. The construction of law doe

When artificial laws fail, the law of nature must be invoked.

Subjected to a course of the law. Cowell. LEGIS ACTl Oe Actio represented a right of the plaintiff not only as against the defendant, but also against the magistrate — a light to h

The construction of the law does not work injury.

The custom of making and repealing the law is a very dangerous one.

The interpretation of the law obtains the force of law.

^ To make a law or laws; to exercise sovereignty, q. v. Legislation. The enactment of a law or laws. General legislation. Legislation for all the people of a State or union of Stat

initiatives are plainly 'legislation' within the meaning of these Regulations. Had the measures involved in these cases been passed by the people of Washington and Arkansas they wo

The mere enactment of legislation which authorizes condemnation of property cannot be a taking. Such legislation may be repealed or modified, or appropriations may fail.

Legislation is presumptively territorial and confined to limits over which the law-making power has jurisdiction.

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. E. 267, 4 L. R. A. 93. —Legisla

One which predetermines what the law shall be for the regulation of future cases falling within its provisions. See 101 Cal. 15, 40 Am. St. Rep. 17, 35 Pac. 353.

The oft-repeated statement that administrative construction receives legislative approval by reenactment of a statutory provision, without material change, covers the situation whe

The term “legislative branch” includes— (A) the Architect of the Capitol; (B) the Botanic Gardens; (C) the Congressional Budget Office; (D) the Government Accountability Office; (E

If the legislature shares the now prevailing belief as to what is public policy, and finds that a particular instrument of trade war is being used against that policy in certain ca

The legislature is not debarred from classifying according to general considerations and with regard to prevailing conditions; otherwise, there could be no legislative power to cla

If there could be any doubt as to the meaning of the statute, it disappears in the light of congressional construction which may properly be examined as an aid in its interpretatio

The legislative contempt power should be limited to 'the least possible power adequate to the end proposed

a bank, in which stock is held by individuals, is a private corporation, and its charter is a legislative contract, which cannot be changed without its consent

the legislature of a state may, in the absence of special restrictions in its Constitution, make a valid contract with a corporation in respect to taxation, and that such contract

The Court of Claims is a legislative, not a constitutional court. Its judicial power is derived not from the Judiciary Article of the Constitution, article 3, but from the Congress

Those created by Congress in the exertion of other powers are called legislative courts. Their functions always are directed to the execution of one or more of such powers, and are

The courts are the legislative courts of the Territory, created in virtue of the clause which authorizes Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territori

For purposes of this subsection, the term “legislative day” means, with respect to statements transmitted to the Senate, any calendar day on which the Senate is in session, and wit