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propter affectum [Medieval Latin] : because of partiality [challenge a juror propter affectum] ...
Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...
Affectum, challenge propter
Affectum, challenge propter, See JURY...
Maleficia non debent remanere impunita; et impunitas continuum affectum tribuit deinquenti
Maleficia non debent remanere impunita; et impunitas continuum affectum tribuit deinquenti [Lat.], evil deeds ought not to remain unpunished; and impunity affords continual incitement to the delinquent....
propter defectum
propter defectum [Medieval Latin] : because of a defect (as residence or relationship) [the disqualification of a juror propter defectum] ...
Benigne faciend' sunt interpretationes, propter simplicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et verba intentioni non ' contra debent inservire
Benigne faciend' sunt interpretationes, propter simplicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et verba intentioni non ' contra debent inservire. Co. Litt. 36.-(Constructions are to be made liberally, on account of the simplicity of the laity, that the thing may rather avail than perish; and words ought to serve the intention, not contrariwise.) These maxims relate to the mode of interpreting written instruments. The judges will rather apply the words of a document to fulfil its lawful intent, than destroy such intent because of insufficient language, for to the intention, when once discovered, all technical forms of expression must give way.See the maxims very fully illustrated in Broom's Legal Maxims, it being said that, notwithstanding qualifications and restrictions, the maxims 'are undoubtedly the most important and comprehensive which can be used for determining the true construction of written instruments.'...
Impotentiam, Propter, Property
Impotentiam, Propter, Property, a qualified pro-perty, which may subsist in animals fer' natur', on account of their inability when they are young: the landowner has a qualified property in them till they can fly or run away, and then such property expires, 2 Steph. Com., bk. Ii., ch. 1....
Ordinarius Income-tax Act dicitu quia habet ordinariam jurisdictionem, in jure proprio, et non propter deputationem
Ordinarius Income-tax Act dicitu quia habet ordinariam jurisdictionem, in jure proprio, et non propter deputationem. Co. Litt. 96, (The ordinary is so called because he has an ordinary jurisdiction in his own right, and not a deputed one.)...
Plures coh'redes sunt quasi unum corpus propter unitatem juris quod habent
Plures coh'redes sunt quasi unum corpus propter unitatem juris quod habent. Co. Litt. 163, (Several co-heirs are, as it were, one body, by reason of the unity of right which they possess.)...
Privilegium, property propter
Privilegium, property propter, a qualified property in animals fer' natur', i.e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others, 2 Bl. Com. 394; 2 Steph. Com....
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