A law French term, meaning “thus,” “so,” giving its name to part .of a plea in debt
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Lat. The cog-nizor in a flne. is cui cognoscitur, the cognizee
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In Scotch law. A provision by which certain prohibited acts
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Lat in the civil law. To impose or set upon, as a fine. Calvin. To inflict, as a punishment.’ To make or ordain, as a law
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In Scotch law. The hap-pening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void
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In Scotch law. Avoiding or making void; as an irritant clause. See Irritancy.
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The operation of water-lng lands for agricultural purposes by arti-ficial means
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A term ap-plied to such an Interposition of human agency as is, from Its nature and power, absolutely uncontrollable; as tbe inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm. § 25
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Used chief-ly in criminal law, this term means an im-pulse to commit an unlawful or crimlnal act which cannot be resisted or overcome by the patient because Insanity or mental disease has destroyed the freedom of hls will and hls power of self-control and of choice as to his actions. See McCarty v. Com., 114 Ky. 620, 71 S. W. 058; State v. Knight, 95 Me. 467, 60 Atl. 276, 55 L. R. A. 373; Leache v. State, 22 Tex. App. 279, 3 S. W. 539, 58 Am. Rep. 638; State v. Peel, 23 Mont. 358, 59 Pac. 169, 75 Am. St. Rep. 529. And see IN-sANITY
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That cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties. Spelled, also, “irreplevisable.” Co. Litt. 145
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In tiie law of evidence. Not relevant; not relating or applicable to the matter in Issue; not supporting the issue
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The status of a pauper in England, who cannot be legally removed from the parish or union in whicb
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The absence of tbe quality of relevancy in evidence or pleadings
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levancy, in an answer, consists in state-ments which are not material to the decision of the case; such as do not form’or tender any material issue. People v. McCumber, 18 N. Y. 321, 72 Am. Dec. 515; walker v. Hewitt, 11 How. Prac. (N. ¥.) 398; Carpenter v. BeU 1 Rob. (N. Y.) 715; Smith v. Smith, 50 8. C. 54, 27 S. B. 545
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Not according to rule; Improper or insufficient, by reason of depart-ure from the prescribed course
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Violation or nonobservance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either in omitting to do something that is necessary for the due aud orderly conductiug of a suit, or doing it in an unseasonable time or Improper manner. 1 Tidd, Pr. 512. And see McCain v. Des Moines, 174 U. S. 168, 19 Sup. Ct 644, 43 L. Ed. 936; Emeric v. Al-varado, d4 Cal. 529, 2 Pac. 418; Hall v. Mun-ger, 5 Lans. (N. Y.) 113; Corn Exch. Bank
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In Roman law. An officer whose duties are described in Dig. 5, 4, 18, 7. See Id. 48, 8, 6; Cod. 10, 75. Lit-erally, a peace-officer or magistrate
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By the law ltself; by the mere operation of law. Calvin
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Lat Moved or excited by anger or passion. A term sometimes former-ly used in the plea of son assault demesne
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In the Identical words; opposed to “substantially.” Town-Bend v. Jemison, 7 How. 719, 12 L. Ed. 880; Summons v. State, 5 ohio St. 346
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By the fact Itself; by the mere fact. By the mere effect of an act or a fact
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