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Contra formam statuti, contrary to the form of the statute [in such case made and provided]. The usual conclusion of every indictment, etc., brought for an offence created by statute prior to the Indictments Act, 1915. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (repealed by the Act of 1915), provided that no indictment be had for the insertion of the words 'against the form of the statute' instead of the words 'against the form of the statutes.' See Sch. I. of the (English) Indictments Act, 1915, for examples of indictments now in use....
incorporate
incorporate -rat·ed -rat·ing vt 1 : to unite with something else to form a whole [ the agreement into the divorce] 2 : to form (as a business) into a legal corporation 3 : to include (rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights) within the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment see also selective incorporation, total incorporation vi : to form a legal corporation in·cor·po·ra·tion [in-kȯr-pə-rā-shən] n incorporate by reference : to make (the terms of a contemporaneous or earlier document) part of another document (as a codicil) by specific reference in that document see also republish ...
jurisdiction
jurisdiction [Latin jurisdictio, from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. Constitution art. IV"] [a court of competent ] see also situs International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary jurisdiction : jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court allowing it to adjudicate claims that are based on state law but that form part of a case...
trespass
trespass [Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass] : wrongful conduct causing harm to another: as a : a willful act or active negligence as distinguished from a mere omission of a duty that causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another ;also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the case in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed criminal trespass : trespass to property that is forbidden by statute and punishable as a crime as distinguished from trespass that creates a cause o...
F
F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet and a nonvocal consonant Its form and sound are from the Latin The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma unr which probably had the value of English w consonant The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoelignician the ultimate source being probably Egyptian Etymologically f is most closely related to p k v and b as in E five Gr pente E wolf L lupus Gr lykos E fox vixen fragile break fruit brook v t E bear L ferre See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 178 179 188 198 230...
Heteromorphic
Deviating from the normal perfect or mature form having different forms at different stages of existence or in different individuals of the same species applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult and to plants having more than one form of flower...
lemmatize
To convert into a lemma2 to normalize the form of a word to that form used as the headword in a dictionary glossary or index as ldquoriderdquo is the lemmatized form for ldquoridingrdquo and ldquoriddenrdquo...
Leucine
a naturally occurring alpha amino acid CH32CHCH2CHNH2 COOH one of the building units of almost all proteins of living organisms both animal and vegetable It is one of the essential amino acids not synthesized by the human body a required component for proper nutrition and is hydrophobic in character when bound in proteins In isolated form it is a white crystalline zwitterionic substance formed e g by the decomposition of proteins by pancreatic digestion by the action of boiling dilute mineral acid or by putrefaction Chemically it is to be considered as amido caproic acid It occurs as two optical isomers the L and D forms The L form L leucine is the natural form present in most proteins...
Modal
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood consisting in mode or form only relating to form having the form without the essence or reality...
monomer
The basic conceptual building unit of a polymer a molecule of low molecular weight which may combine with other molecules to form a molecule in a chain or branched form having high molecular weight as amino acids are the monomer units which are combined to form proteins vinylic plastics are formed from monomers having a vinyl group...
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