Nineteenth - Law Dictionary Search Results
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abduction 1 a : the action of abducting [ of a robbery victim] b : the tort or felony of abducting a person 2 : the unlawful carrying away of a wife or female child or ward for the purpose of marriage or sexual intercourse NOTE: Sense 2 has its roots in common law. As statutorily defined, mainly in the nineteenth century, abduction is generally stated to include taking away or detention of a woman under a certain age, usually 16 or 18, with or without her consent or knowledge of her age. ...
attainder
attainder [Anglo-French atteinder, from ateindre to convict, sentence, literally, to reach, attain, ultimately from Latin attingere to reach, from ad to + tangere to touch] : the termination of the civil rights of a person upon a sentence of death or outlawry for treason or a felony see also bill of attainder at bill, corruption of blood NOTE: In English law up to the nineteenth century, attainder was the harsh consequence of conviction for treason or a felony. It resulted in the forfeiture of the convicted person's property. It also involved corruption of blood, which barred the person from inheriting, retaining, or passing title, rank, or property. A person outlawed lost the right to seek protection under the law. Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits corruption of blood or forfeiture upon a conviction for treason “except during the life of the person attainted,” and Article I, Section 9 prohibits bills of attainder. Attainder was abolished in Engl...
Carbonaro
A member of a secret political association in Italy organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic...
Mondays Child
A child who is fair of face a reference to a nineteenth century poem See below...
Nineteenth
Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth coming after eighteen others...
S
the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet is a consonant and is often called a sibilant in allusion to its hissing sound It has two principal sounds one a mere hissing as in sack this the other a vocal hissing the same as that of z as in is wise Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh as in sure measure It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage In a few words it is silent as in isle deacutebris With the letter h it forms the digraph sh See Guide to pronunciation sectsect 255 261...
VerbarScampavia
A long low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century...
Barber-chirurgeons
Barber-chirurgeons, a corporation of London instituted by Edward IV. The barbers were separated from the surgeons by 18 Geo. 2, c. 15, and the latter were erected into a Royal College of Surgeons at the commencement of the nineteenth century....
Commander-in-Chief
Commander-in-Chief. The army was originally under the personal command of the sovereign, but in 1793 this command was delegated to a Commander-in-Chief appointed by patent. The command was divided in the middle of the nineteenth century between the Commander-in-Chief and a Secretary of State for War. The latter gradually became predominant, which held to the abolition of the former office in 1904, the Commander-in-Chief's duties being divided between the Army Council and the Inspector-General, the Secretary of State for War being responsible for the Army as a whole....
Duel
Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused.In modern times a duel is a combat with weapons between two persons upon some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47.Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.'It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an ...
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