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King's Bench

King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso...

Writ

Writ [breve, Lat.], a judicial process, by which any one is summoned as an offender; a legal instrument to enforce obedience to the orders and sentences of the courts. For the particular writs, see their distinctive...

officer

officer 1 : one charged with administering or enforcing the law [a police ] 2 : one who holds an office of trust, authority, or command [the directors, s, employees, and shareholders of a corporation] 3...

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Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...

Admiral

Admiral, [derived through the Fr. amiral, from Amir al Bahir, Arab., commander of the sea or fleet], an officer having high command in the Royal Navy. An admiral has two subordinate commanders under him, a vice-admiral...

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him...

Serjeant

Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:- A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter,...

Sanction of a law

Sanction of a law, the provision for enforcing or promoting its observance. 'The evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed, or (to use an equivalent expression) in case a duty be...

Repugnant

Repugnant, really means inconsistent with and when they cannot stand together at the same time and one law is inconsistent with another law when the command or power or provision in the one law conflicted directly...

Quare impedit

Quare impedit (wherefore he hindered), a real possessory action, which could formerly be brought only in the court of Common Pleas, and lies to recover a presentation, when the patron's right is disturbed, or to try...

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King's Bench

King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso...

Writ

Writ [breve, Lat.], a judicial process, by which any one is summoned as an offender; a legal instrument to enforce obedience to the orders and sentences of the courts. For the particular writs, see their distinctive...

officer

officer 1 : one charged with administering or enforcing the law [a police ] 2 : one who holds an office of trust, authority, or command [the directors, s, employees, and shareholders of a corporation] 3...

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Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...

Admiral

Admiral, [derived through the Fr. amiral, from Amir al Bahir, Arab., commander of the sea or fleet], an officer having high command in the Royal Navy. An admiral has two subordinate commanders under him, a vice-admiral...

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him...

Serjeant

Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:- A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter,...

Sanction of a law

Sanction of a law, the provision for enforcing or promoting its observance. 'The evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed, or (to use an equivalent expression) in case a duty be...

Repugnant

Repugnant, really means inconsistent with and when they cannot stand together at the same time and one law is inconsistent with another law when the command or power or provision in the one law conflicted directly...

Quare impedit

Quare impedit (wherefore he hindered), a real possessory action, which could formerly be brought only in the court of Common Pleas, and lies to recover a presentation, when the patron's right is disturbed, or to try...

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