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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Litigious. upon matters disputed voluntary jurisdiction, pute. Contestatio litis, I. Contingency with a of fortunes; marriage, v. Per quod. combining together of two or more perunlawful act, or a lawful act by unlawful e-rident. Cpnstat de persona: there is ordinance, statute; a constitution, v. facit injuriam. The construction of the made as to' work] no wrong. Made out; deduced by construction; interpreted by law. and apply, even to vary the sense; a Interpret: to explain or render intelconsuetudines, I. Custom, customs; usage, et servitiis: t. De. Consuecerta; nam incerta pro nullis habenbe certain; for uncertain things are Consuetude est altera lex: custom is est eptimus interpres legum: interpreter of laws. Consuetude ex usitata privat communem lecustom with a certain reasonable cause law. Consuetude loci, manerii, custom of the place, the manor, is to be semel reprebata non potest amonce disallowed cannot again be set up. plea. Center: to count. Contamus, /.,• fertissima in lege, I. A contemin law the strongest. The proceedings in ecclesiastical courts are so called, as distinguished from its probate, etc., where there is no dis- Pleading; joinder of issue; v. Litis. double A remainder