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Vagrants

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the...

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or...

Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude...

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal...

Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition....

Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable...

Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976...

Equity [fr. 'quitas, Lat.] There is some confusion as to the meaning of Equity; as a scheme of jurispru-dence distinct...

Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt. --A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or...

Bond [fr. binda, band, bunden, A. S., to bind], a written acknowledgement or binding of a debt under seal. See...