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In Scotch law. These are either (1) actions of proper improbatiou for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions of reductlon-improbation […]

That is in action; that demands action; actually subsisting; the oppo-site of passive. An active debt is one which draws interest An […]

In the Eng Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. All actions which are not rescissory. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 18 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A foreign commercial term for the proprietor of an action or share of a public company’s stock; a stockholder Source: Black’s Law […]

In the Roman law. Legal or lawful action; actions of or at law, (legitim# actiones.) Dig. 1, 2, 2, 6 Source: Black’s […]

That for which an action wlll lie; furnlshing legal ground for an actlon Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Lat. (From actio, an action.) In old records. To bring an action; to prosecute, or sue. Thorn’s Chron.; whls-haw Source: Black’s […]

A form of action for the recovery of claims, such as are usually evidenced by a book-account; this action is principally used […]

A species of personal action of very extensive application, otherwise called “trespass on the case,” or simply “case,” from the circumstance of […]

Conduct; behavior; something done; the condition of acting; an act or series of acts Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A phrase used when a defendant pleads some matter by which he shows that the plaintiff had no cause to have the […]

In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause In the plea to the further mainte Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In the civil and common law. A personal action. The ordi-nary term for this kind of action in the civil law is […]

In pleading. The Latin name of that part of a special plea which follows next .after the statement of appearance and defense, […]

The name of the plea of the stat* ute of limitations, when the defendant alleges that the plaintiff’s action has not accrued […]

In tbe civil taw. An action against the person, founded on a personal liability; an action seeking re-dress, for the vlolatlon of […]

In the civil and com-mon law. An- action for a thing; an action for the recovery of a thing possessed by an-other, […]

In the civil and common law. An action of contract; an action arising out of, or founded on, con-tract Inst. 4, 6, […]

In the civil and cominon law. An action of tort; an action arising out of fault, misconduct, or malfeasance. Inst 4, 6, […]

Lat in the civil law. An action or suit; a right or cause of action. It should be noted that this term […]

In the common law. A clvll action, ns distinguished from a crimi-nal action. Bracton dlvides personal actions Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In French law, denotes a docu* ment, or formal, solemn writing, embodying a legal attestation that something has been done, corresponding to […]

A term employed to designate a locum tenens who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself […]

Lat. In the Roman law. Dally acts; the public registers or journals of the daily proceedings of the senate, assemblies of the […]