Lat Inauspicious. Applied, in the Roman law, to a day on which it was unlawful to open the courts or admin-ister justice
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A denial; a proposition by whlch something is denled; a statement in the form of denial. Two negatives do not make a good issue. Steph. Pl. 386, 387
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In a statute against “need-less” kllling or mutilation of any animaL this term denotes an act done without any useful motive, in a spirit of wanton cruelty,, or for the mere pleasure of destruction. Grise v. State, 37 Ark. 460
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Lat That which is against, right or the divine law. A wicked or impious thing or act Calvin
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An autopsy, or post-mortem examination of a human body
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Controlling force; irresistible compulsion; a power or impulse so great that it admits no choice of conduct, when it is said that an aet is done “under necessity,” it may he. in law. either of three kinds of necessity: (1) The necessity of pre-serving one’s own life, which will excuse a homicide; (2) the necessity of obedience, as to the laws, or the obedience of one not sui juris to his superior; (3) the necessity caus
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The Latin sentence, “Miserere mei, Deus,” was so called, because the reading of it was made a test for those who claimed benefit of clergy
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Lat. Necessity; a force, power, or influence which compels one to act agninst hls will. Calvin
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Lat. In the civil law. An obligation; a close connection; relation-ship by blood. Calvin
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Lat Necessary; nn-a void able; Indispensable; not admitting of choice or the action of the will; needful
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As used in jurisprudence^ the word “necessary” does not always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to wbich another may be termed “necessary,” cannot exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or esseutial to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means without which the end would be entirely un-attainable. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 wheat 316, 413, 4 L. Ed. 579
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Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition of the person referred to. Megraw v. woods, 93 Mo. App. 647, 67 S. W. 709; warner v. Hefden, 28 wis. 517, 9 Am. Rep. 515; Artz v. Robertson, 50 111. App. 27; Conant v. Burnham, 133 Mass. 505, 43 Am. Rep. 532
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In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lawes, Pl. 62
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The clear weight or quan-tity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped
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oxen or heifers. “Beeves” may include neat stock, but all neat stock are not beeves. Castello v. State, 36 Tez. 324; Hubotter v. State, 32 Tex. 479
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Those tides whieh hap-pen between the full and change of the moon, twice in every twenty-four hours. Tesche-macher v. Thompson, 18 Cal. 21, 79 Am. Dec. 151
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This word, as applied to space, can have no positive or precise meaning. It is a relative term, depending for its signifi-catiou on the subject-matter in relation to which it is used and the circumstances under which it becomes necessary to apply it to surrounding objects. Barrett v. Schuyler County Cdurt, 44 Mo. 197; People v. Collins, 19 wend. (N. Y.) 60; Boston & P. R. Corp. v. Mldland R. Co., 1 Gray (Mass.) 367; Indianapolis & V. R. Co. v. Newsom, 54 Ind. 125; Holcomb v. Danby, 51 Vt. 428
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Lat. It must not be altered. A phrase sometimes written by a notary upon a bill or note, for the purpose of establishing its identity, which, however
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AS. L. Fr. Did not re-lease. where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse
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