Illustriously - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: illustriouslyIllustriously
In a illustrious manner conspicuously eminently famously...
Illustrious
Illustrious, distinguished, the prefix to the title of a prince of the blood....
Gisle
Gisle, a pledge. Fredgisle, a pledge of peace. Gislebert, an illustrious pledge, Gibs. Camden...
Client
Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of a lawyer or commits his cause to the management of one, either in prosecuting a claim or defending a suit in a Court of justice; and for meaning, the word (except in relation to non-contentious business) includes any person who as principal or on behalf of another person retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor's costs (English) (Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 81). The relation between solicitor and client is a highly confidential one, and the power which his situation gives the former over the latter makes it impossible to be perfectly assured, in certain cases, whether in their transactions the client is a free agent, or under influence and imposition. A Court of Equity, therefore, ...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Obscure
To render obscure to darken to make dim to keep in the dark to hide to make less visible intelligible legible glorious beautiful or illustrious...
Medal
A piece of metal in the form of a coin struck with a device and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person or to serve as a reward...
Magnific
Grand splendid illustrious magnificent...
VerbarLitotes
A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression a form of understatement as ldquo a citizen of no mean cityrdquo that is of an illustrious city or ldquonot badrdquo meaning ldquogoodrdquo...
Illustriousness
The state or quality of being eminent greatness grandeur glory fame...
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