Aiding; auxiliary; attendant npon; subordinate; a proceeding at-tendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal. Steele v. Insurance Oo., 31 App. Div. 389, 52 N. Y. Supp. 373
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In English law. A pres-tatlon or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 2. c. 6. See 1 W. Bl. 413 et seq.; 4 Term. 262
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In Engllsh law. Gentle-men of the Inns of court and chancery. In Gray’s Inn the society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar: and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple, those who had passed their readings used to be termed “ancients.” The Inns of Chancery consist of ancients and students or clerks; from the ancients a principal or treasurer is chosen yearly, wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
A watch, conslst-ing of a small number of men. (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables, and buoy-ropes are ready for immediate use. The Lady Franklin, 2 Lowell, 220, Fed. Cas. No. 7.984
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
one who has preceded another in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage anecstrel
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
To pronounce an-atheina upon; to pronounce accursed by ec-ciesiastical authority; to excommunicate
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In the civil law. Re-peated or doubled interest; compound Inter-est; usury. Cod. 4, 32, 1, 30
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
The destruction of govern-ment; lawlessness; the absence of all pollt-Ical government; b.v extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 III. 1, 253, 12 N. E. 865, 3 Am. St. Rep. 320; Lewis AvPaily News Co., 81 Md. 406, 32 Atl. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59; People v. Most. 36 Misc. Rep. 139, 73 N. Y. Supp. 220; Von Gerichten v. Seitz, 94 App. Dlv, 130, 87 N. Y. Supp. 968
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
An ecclesiastical punish-ment by which a person is separated from the body of the church, aud forbidden all intercourse with the members of the same
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In medical jurispru-dence. Impotentia cceundi; frigidity; ln-capacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called "dyspareunla.”
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Qne who professes and advocates the doctrines of anarchy, q. v. And see Cerveny v. Chicago Dally News Co., 139 111. 345, 28 N. E. 692, 13 L. R. A. 864; United States v. williams, 194 U. S. 279, 24 Sup. Ct. 719, 48 L. Ed. 979
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In logic. Identity or similarity of proportion, where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same sub-ject, lawyers have recourse to cases ou a different subject-matter, but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by analogy, wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In the civil law. An in-vestlgatlon of truth, interrogation of witnesses, and lnquiry made into any fact, especially by torture
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In medical jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensatlon, or insensibility to paln, general or local, induced by the ad-ministration or application of certaiu drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas. or cocalue. (2) Defect of sensation, or more or less com-plete insensibility to pain, existing In various parts of the hotly as a result of certain diseases of the nervous system
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In feudal law. Year, day, and waste. A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land escheats to the lord. Termes de la Ley, 40
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In the Roman law. More; farther; more time. A word which the prse-tor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in a cause, and the judices were uncertain whether to condemn or acquit; by which the case was deferred to a day nam-ed. Adam, Rom. Ant. 287
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the court.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can be ordered, and the title of possession issued by an authorized commissioner. Trlmble v. Smither’s Adm’r, 1 Tex. 790
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hllburn v. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51. 40 S. E. 618, 56 L. R. A. 663, 93 Am. St. Rep. 919
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
Lat. That you remove your hands. After office found, the king was entitled to the things forfeited, either lands or personal property; the rem-edy for a person aggrieved was by “petl
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)