Compasses - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dharma
Dharma or righteousness is elemental and fundamental in all nations, periods and times. For example, truth, love and compassion are human virtues. This is what Hindus Call sanatan dharma meaning religion which is immutable, constant, living, permanent
Hors de son fee
Hors de son fee (out of his fee), where land is without the compass of a person's fee, 9 Rep. 30; 2 Mod. 104.
Land boundary
means the limit of a landholding, usu. described by linear measurements of the borders, by points of the compass or by stationary markers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 882.
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Magna Carta
be unanimous in their verdict, the reason for which would appear on criminal trials to be out of compassion to the prisoner, by giving him the benefit of every doubt, in accordance with the benignant quality of
Maintenance
or contingent; and also a suit of his near kinsman, servant, or poor neighbour, out of charity and compassion, with impunity, Bac. Abr., tit. 'Maintenance.' Further, any legitimate common interest will justify a person or persons jointly
Occupancy
the owner. The right of occupancy has been confined by the laws of England within a very narrow compass, e.g., where a person was tenant pur autre vie, or had an estate granted to himself only (without
Piedpoudre, Court of
in any preceding one; so that the injury must be done, complained of, heard and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer. The court had cognizance of all matters
Purprise
Purprise [fr. purprisum, law Lat.], a close or in-closure; as also the whole compass of a manor.
Religious practice
of charity and com-passion is to be found in all religions without any exception. Only because charity and compassion are preached in every religion, the same by itself would not be a part of the 'religious practice'
NNW
north northwest the compass point that is midway between north and northwest
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