Confederate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: confederateConfederation
The act of confederating a league a compact for mutual support alliance particularly of princes nations or states...
Confederator
A confederate...
Confederation
Confederation, a league or compact for mutual support, particularly of princes, nations, or states....
Collusion
Collusion [fr. collusio, Lat., fr. colludo, to unite in the same play or game, and thus to unite for the purposes of fraud or deception], an agreement or compact between two or more persons to do some act in order to prejudice a third person, or for some improper purpose. Collusion in judicial proceedings is a secret agreement between two persons that the one should institute a suit against the other, in order to obtain the decision of a judicial tribunal for some sinister purpose, and appears to be of two kinds: (1) When the facts put forward as the foundation of the sentence of the Court do not exist; (2) When they exist, but have been corruptly preconcerted for the express purpose of obtaining the sentence. In either case the judgment obtained by such collusion is a nullity. See Duchess of Kingston's case, (1776) 2 Sm. L.C. Collusion between the petitioner and either of the respondents in presenting or prosecuting a suit for dissolution of marriage is a bar to such suit by the Judic...
accomplice
accomplice [alteration (from incorrect division of a complice) of complice, from Middle French, associate, from Late Latin complic- complex partner, confederate] : one who intentionally and voluntarily participates with another in a crime by encouraging or assisting in the commission of the crime or by failing to prevent it though under a duty to do so [the of the burglar] [an in a robbery] ...
enter
enter : to go or come in ;specif : to go upon real property by right of entry esp. to take possession [lessor shall have the right to and take possession] often used in deeds and leases vt 1 : to come or go into [he breaks into and s a vehicle "Code of Alabama"] see also break, breaking and entering 2 : record register 3 : to put in correct form before a court or on a record [ed judgment against the defendant] [ing a plea] compare render 4 : to go upon (real property) by right of entry esp. to take possession [if the lessee defaults, the lessor may the premises] compare distrain en·ter·able adj enter into : to make oneself a party to or in [no State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [entered into a lease] ...
union
union 1 : an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one ;esp : the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and individual units 2 : something that is made one : something formed by a combining or coalition of its members: as a : a confederation of independent individuals (as nations or persons) for some common purpose b : a political unit constituting an organic whole formed usually from previously independent units (as England and Scotland in 1707) which have surrendered their principal powers to the government of the whole or to a newly created government (as the U.S. in 1789) c : labor union ...
Bund
League confederacy esp the confederation of German states...
Combined
United closely confederated chemically united...
Communalism
A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state and the national government a confederation of such states having only limited powers It is advocated by advanced French republicans but it should not be confounded with communism...
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