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Dedimus
A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge as to examine a witness etc...
Idio
A combining form from the Greek idios meaning private personal peculiar distinct...
Lynch law
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses without due process of law...
Peculiar
Ones own belonging solely or especially to an individual not possessed by others of private personal or characteristic possession and use not owned in common or in participation...
A fortiori
A fortiori. [By so much stronger reason]. It is thus applied:-A private person, and a fortiori a peace officer (it being his special duty), who is present at the commission of a felony, is bound by the law to arrest the felon, on pain of fine and imprisonment....
Ancient demesne
Ancient demesne, a tenure now abolished by s. 128 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16), see COPYHOLDS, but formerly existing in certain manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession of the Crown in the times of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, and appear to have been so by the great survey in the Exchequer called Domesday Book, and, therefore, whether lands are ancient demesne or not, is to be tried only by this book, called in consequence Liber Judicatorius; but the question must be tried by a jury whether lands be parcel of a manor which is ancient demesne, being a question of fact. There is great confusion in the books respecting this tenure. It is only the freeholders of the manor who are truly tenants in ancient demesne, and land held in ancient demesne, passes by common law conveyance without the instrumentality of the lord. The copyholders is an ancient demesne manor are merely to be considered as occupying...
Brevet
Brevet, a commission conferring on an officer a degree of rank immediately above that which he holds in his particular regiment; without, however, conveying a power to receive the corresponding pay. Brevet rank does not exist in the royal navy, and in the army it neither descends lower than that of captain, nor ascends above that of lieutenant-colonel.French Law. A privilege or warrant granted by the Government to a private person, authorising a special benefit or the exercise of an exclusive privilege; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Conventio in unum
Conventio in unum, the agreement between the two parties to a contract upon the sense of the contract proposed. It is an essential part of the contract, following the pollicitation or proposal emanating from the one, and followed by the agreement of the other, Civil Law. If the second party does not assent to the proposal in the sense in which it is made, he is not bound by his assent unless his mistake (q.v.) is unreasonable.Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare. Wing. 746, (A agreement of private persons cannot affect public right.)...
Civil remedy
Civil remedy, one open to a private person as opposed to a criminal prosecution....
Dedimus potstatem
Dedimus potstatem (we have given the power), a writ or commission to one or more private persons for the speeding of some act appertaining to a judge or a Court. it is granted most commonly upon a suggestion that the party who is to do something before a judge, or in a Court ,is so weak that he cannot travel.On renewing the commission of the peace there cometh a writ of dedimus potestatem out of Chancery, directed to some ancient justice, to take the oath of him which is newly inserted.Formerly the judges would not suffer litigants to appoint attorneys in any action or suit without this writ; but it has since been provided by statute that the plaintiff or defendant may appoint attorneys without such process, Jac. Law Dict....
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