Caper - Law Dictionary Search Results
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To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner to cut capers to skip to spring to prance to dance...
Caperer
One who capers leaps and skips about or dances...
Nemo commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria
Nemo commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria [Lat.], no one can take an advantage from his own injury....
Non videtur quisquam id capere, quod ei necesse est alii restiture
Non videtur quisquam id capere, quod ei necesse est alii restiture [Lat.], no one is considered entitled to recover that which he must give up to another....
Nullus commodum capere potset de injuria sua propria
Nullus commodum capere potset de injuria sua propria. Co. Litt. 148 b, (No one can obtain an advantage by his own wrong.) See Broom's Leg. Maxims and the cases cited, e.g., Hooper v. Lane, (1857) 6 HLC 461, per Bramwell, B.; and Doe v. Bancks, (1821) 4 B&Ald 401,in which it has been held that a lessee cannot take advantage of his own wrongful act, and turea proviso for re-entry by the lessor thereupon, even though the proviso be that the term shall cease, or that the lease shall be utterly void for all purposes, only makes the lease voidable at the option of the lessor....
caption
caption [Medieval Latin captio act of taking, from Latin capere to take] : the part of a legal document that states the court, the names of the parties, the docket number, the title of the document, and sometimes the name of the judge ...
nuncupative
nuncupative [Medieval Latin nuncupativus, from Late Latin, so-called, from Latin nuncupatus, past participle of nuncupare to name, probably ultimately from nomen name + capere to take] : stated by spoken word ...
Bean caper
A deciduous plant of warm climates generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color of the genus Zygophyllum...
Caperberry
The small olive shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper said to be used in pickles and as a condiment...
Caper bush
See Capper a plant 2...
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