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Home Dictionary Name: deprived from Page: 3Coke, Sir Edward
Coke, Sir Edward, often, but incorrectly, styled Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself ' Chief Justice of England,''was deprived of office and committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I. referred the whole matter to Bacon, the Attorney-General, and others learned in the law. Acting upon the recommendations of this committee of counsel, James I. decided the matter in favour of Chancery. It should be menti...
Capias ad satisfaciendum
Capias ad satisfaciendum (that you take to satisfy); called in practice a ca. sa. A writ of execution of the highest nature, inasmuch as it deprived a person of liberty, till the satisfaction awarded be made. The writ was addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to take the body of the defendant and have him at Westminster on a day therein named, or immediately after the execution of the writ, to make the plaintiff satisfaction for his demand, or remain in custody till he did. The general rule was that any person might be arrested under this writ who was not privileged from being held to bail under a capias ad respondendum. By 7 & 8 Vict. c. 96, s. 57, this kind of execution was abolished 'in any action for the recovery of any debt wherein the sum recovered shall not exceed 20l. exclusive of the costs recovered by such judgment,' and by the (English) Debtors Act, 1869, (32 & 33 Vict c. 62), in any action whatever, unless the defendant could, but would not, pay. See IMPRISONMENT FOR DEB...
Adoption
Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil law (as to which, see Sand. Just.) prevails to any great extent. In 1889 and 1890, Lord Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption.By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in the Chancery Division) may authorize the adoption of an infant who is under twenty-one years of age, a British subject, and resident in England and Wales, by an applicant who is more than twenty-five years of age, and also twenty-one years older than the infant, unless closely related, and a British subject, resident and domiciled in England or Wales, but a single adopter, only, will be authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reason...
Smallage
A biennial umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation it becomes celery...
VerbarSans
Without deprived or destitute of Rarely used as an English word...
Reim
A strip of oxhide deprived of hair and rendered pliable used for twisting into ropes etc...
Polled
Deprived of a poll or of something belonging to the poll Specifically a Lopped said of trees having their tops cut off b Cropped hence bald said of a person ldquoThe polled bachelorrdquo Beau amp Fl c Having cast the antlers said of a stag d Without horns as polled cattle polled sheep...
Outlawry
The act of outlawing the putting a man out of the protection of law or the process by which a man as an absconding criminal is deprived of that protection...
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
Orphan
Orphan, a fatherless child or minor, or one deprived of both father and mother.The Lord Chancellor is the general guardian of all orphans and minors throughout the realm. See GUARDIANSHIP; WARD OF COURT.By the (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17), local county or borough councils may assist the emigration of poor orphans (see s. 68, ibid.).The (English) Windows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts, 1925-1935, provide for pensions for orphans of persons insured under the (English) National Health Insurance Acts under these Acts, 'orphan' means a child, both of whose parents are dead (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 70, s. 44).In London the Lord Mayor and Aldermen have in their Court of Orphans the custody of the orphans of deceased freemen, and also the keeping of their land and goods; accordingly the executors and administrators of freemen leaving such orphans are to exhibit inventories of the estate of the deceased, and give security to the Chamberlain for the orphan's p...
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