Category: dictionaries

In old pleading. An advantage. Co. Ent. 484; Townsh. Pl. 50 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Adul-terous bastards are’ those produced by an unlawful connection between two persons, who, at the time when the child was con-ceived, were, […]

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a i>erson other than the -offender’s husband or wife. Clvll Code […]

Traders act-ing as a corporation, without a charter, and paying a fine annually s/or permission to ex-ercise their usurped privileges.; Smith, wealth […]

A ‘fine aneiently im-‘ posed as a punishment for the commission of adultery Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Let Jn the civil Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Begotten in an adulter-ous intercourse. In t^e. Roman, and canon law, adulterine bastards )vere distinguished from such as were the issue ot […]

In the civil law. An adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery. Dig. 48, 5, 4, pr.; Id. 48. 5, 15, 8 Source: […]

The act of corrupt-ing or debasing. The term is generally np-piied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended […]

In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of four-teen ; a female infant who has attained the […]

Lot. one who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorur/i. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin Source: Black’s Law […]

Side judges. Assist-ants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and conld equally receive […]

®. Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were an-nexed to the land, and passed wlth it when it was […]

In the civil law. Add-ed, annexed, or bound by or in writing; en-rolled. registered; united, Joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colon# […]

In the civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes; that is, lf a male, under fourteen years of age; if […]

bat. In the civil law. Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5. 6 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to mnke oath. Spelman Source: Black’s […]

Sea-weed, between high and low wnter-mnrk, which lias not been deposlt-ed on tbe shore, nnd which during flood-tide is moved by each […]

Payment. Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To set right, satisfy, or make amends Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the chlld adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14 Source: Black’s […]

In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or caution-er; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds hls own promise […]

The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating hlm as hls own, and giving hlm alL the […]

An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner pre-scribed therein, by the inhabitants […]