Lat in the civlI law. The ordinary judices appointed by the prtetor to try causes
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1. The state or profes-sion of those officers who are employed in administering justice; the judiciary
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Lat in the clvll and old English law. To judge; to decide or de-termine Judiclally; to give judgment or sentence
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Lat. In the civil law. judging; the pronouncing of sentence, after hearing a cause. Hallifax, Clvll Law, b. 3, c. 8, no. 7
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A Judg-ment against a particular person, as distin-guished from a judgment against a thing or a right or status. The former class of judg-ments are conclusive only upon parties and privies; the latter upon all the world. See next title
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The official and authentic decision of a court of justice upon the respective rights nnd claims of the parties to an action or suit therein litigated and sub-mltted to its determination. People v. He-bel. 19 Colo. App. 523, 76 Pac. 550; Bullock v. Bullock, 52 N. J. Eq. 561, 30 AU. 676, 27 L. It. A. 213, 46 Am. St. Rep. 528; Eppright v. Kauffman, 90 Mo. 25, 1 S. W. 736; State
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Lat. In Roman law. A private person appointed by the prtetor, with the consent of the parties, to try and decide a cause or action commenced before him. He received from the praetor a written for-mula instructing him as to.the legal prln-clples recording to which the action was to be judged. Calvin. Hence the proceedings before him were said to be in judicio, as those before the- prsetor were said to be in jure
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A public ofiicer, appointed to preside and to administer the law in a court of justice; the chief member of a court, and
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The religion and rites of the Jews. Dn Cange. A quarter set apart for residence of Jews. A usurious rate of interest. 1 Mon. Angl. 839 ; 2 Mon. Angl. 10,665. Sex marcus sterlingorum ad ac-quietandam terrain proedictum de Judaismo, in quo fuit impignorata. Du Cange. An Income anciently accruing to the king from the Jews. Blount
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Lat in the civll law. To order, dlrect, or command. Calvin. The word jubeo, (I order,) in a wlll, was called a “word of direction,” as distinguished from “precatory words.” Cod. 6, 43, 2
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In Spanish law. The privilege of a public officer to be retired, on account of infirmity or disability, retaining the rank and pay of his office (or part of the same) after twenty years of public service, and on reaching the age of fifty
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A workman hired by the -day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald-rldge, 1 Cowp. 56; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 468
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In English practice. The name of a writ (now obsolete) whlch might be sued out where a former writ had abated without the plaintiff’s fault. The length of time allowed for taking it out depended on the length of the journey the party must make to reach the court; whence the name
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The original signification of this word was a day’s travel. It is now ap-plied to a travel by land from place to place, without restriction of time. But, when thus applied, it is employed to designate a travel whlch is without the ordinary habits, busi-ness, or duties of the person, to a distance
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In English law. Regrators of yam. 8 Hen. VI. c. 5
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A French word, signifying “day.” It is used in our old law-books; as “tout jours,” forever
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A daily book; a book in whlch entries are made or events recorded from day to day. In maritime law, the jour-nal (otherwise called “log” or “log-book”) is a book kept on every vessel, which contains a brief record of the events and occurrences of each day of a voyage, with the nautical observations, course of the ship, account of the weather, etc. In the system of double-entry book-keeping, the journal is an ac-count-book into which are transcribed, daily or at other intervals, the items entered up-on the day-book, for more convenient posting into the ledger. In the usage of leglsla-tive todies, the journal is a dally record of the proceedings of either house. It is kept by the clerk, and in it are entered the ap-pointments and actions of committees, ln-troduction of bills, motions, votes, resolu-tlons, etc., in the order of their occurrence. See oakland Pav. Co. v. Hilton, 69 Cal. 479, 11 Pac. 3; Montgomery Beer Bottling works v. Gaston, 126 Ala. 425, 28 South, 497, 51 L. R. A. 396. 85 Am. St. Rep. 42; Martin v. Com., 107 Pa. 190
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A freehold estate in lands or tenements secured to the wife, and to take effect on the decease of the husband, and to continue during her life at the least, unless she be herself the cause of Its de4 termination. Vance v. Vance, 21 Me. 860
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In old English law. As much land as could be plowed in one day. Spelman
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Acting together or in concert or co-operation; holding in common or interdependently, not separately. Redama-tlon Dist. ▼. Parvin, 67 Cal. 501, 8 Pac. 43 ; Gold & Stock Tel. Co. v. Commercial TeI. Co. (C. O.) 23 Fed. 342; Case v. Owen, 139 Ind. 22, 38 N. B. 395, 47 Am. St Rep. 253. Persons are “jointly hound” in a bond or note when both or all must be sued in one actlon for its enforcement, not either one at the election of the creditor
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