A person who informs or prefers au accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute
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TY. want of legal form. See State v. Galllmon, 24 N. C. 377; Franklin
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Deficient in legal form; inartificiaily drawn up
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RM, weak, feeble. The testimony of an “infirm” witness may be taken de bene ease In some ciroumstances. See 1- P. wms. 117
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In the law of evidence; Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render in-firm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres. § 217
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In feudal law. Infldel-ity: faithlessness to one’s feudal oath. Spel-man
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Sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling
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Lat. In the civil law. Denial; the denial of a debt or liability; the denial of the claim or allegation of a party plaintiff. Calvin
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This term may denote any court subordinate to the chief ap-peliate tribunal in the particular judicial system; hut it is commonly used as the designs-tion of a court of special, limited, or statuto-ry jurisdiction, whose record must show the existence and attaching of jurisdiction in any given cuse, in order to give presumptive va-lidity to its judgment Bee Ex parte Cuddy, 131 U. S. 280, 9 Sup. Ct 703, 33 L. Ed. 154; Kempe v. Kennedy, 5 Cranch, 185, 3 L. Ed. TO; Grignon v. Astor, 2 Uow. 341, 11 L. Ed. 283; Swift v. wayne Circuit Judges, 64 Mich. 479, 31 N. W. 434; Kirkwood v. washington County, 32 or. 568, 52 Pac. 568
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The placing in posses-sion of a freehold estate; also the granting of tithes to laymen
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In the iaw of evi-dence. operating in the way of Inference
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one who, in relation to on-other, has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who-makes the law is the superior; he who is’ bound to obey it, the Inferior. 1 Bouv. Inst, no. 8
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The act or instra-* ment of feoffment. In Scotland it is synony-rnous with “aaisinc,” meaning the instru-ment of possession.- Formerly it was synon-ymous with “investiture.” Bell
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In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established Ib deduced as a logical consequence from other facts, or a state of facts, already proved or admitted. Gates v. Hughes, 44 wis. 336; Whitehouse v. Bolster, 95 Me. 458, 50 Ati. 240; Joske v. Irvine, 91 Tex. 574, 44 S. W. 1059
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In medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly l»y contact with morbidly affected surfaces
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In Scotch law. To give seisin or possession of lands; to invest or enfeoff., 1 Kames, Eq. 215
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The murder or killing of an infant soon after Its birth. The fact of the birth distinguishes this act from “foeticide” or “procuring abortion,” which terms denote the destruction of the foetus in tbe womb
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In Spanish law. A person of noble birth, who exercises within his domains and inheritance no other rights and privileges than those conceded to him. Es-criche
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A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co?Litt. 171 b; 1 Bl. Comm. 463-466 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 233
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LaL In the civil law. The period of Infancy between birth -and t he age of seven years. Calvin
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