Privilege - Law Dictionary Search Results
Distress
to be repaired; (4) Things in the custody of the law; (5) An ambassador's goods, by the Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), s. 3; (6) The goods of an under-tenant, lodger, or other person
Alsatia
Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which, possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the
Monopoly
The exclusive power or privilege of selling a commodity the exclusive power right or privilege of dealing in some article or of trading
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break
(a will) by a court proceeding 2 a : to open (another's real property) by force or without privilege (as consent) for entry often used in the phrase break and enter [one who s and enters a
laches
ultimately from Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1 : undue delay in asserting a right or privilege compare statute of limitations 2 a : a doctrine permitting dismissal of a suit because a plaintiff's unreasonable
self-incrimination
self-incrimination : incrimination of and by oneself esp. through testimony see also privilege against self-incrimination at privilege
Brevet
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
Coparceners or parceners
coparcener, according to seniority of age, or as should be agreed between them, selected her own portion. The privilege of seniority was in this case personal; for if the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not
Way
are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a
Warren
798; Fitzhardinge(Lord) v. Purcell, (1908) 2 Ch 139. 1. A place for preservation of certain wildlife. 2. A privilege to keep wildlife as game. 3. The area to which privilege extends, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.
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