Ward - Law Dictionary Search Results
Infant
to be responsible for acts not his own.' As to the criminal liability of infants, see AGE; CHILDREN. Ward of Court.--The general superintendence and protective jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery over the persons and property of
Quare intrusit
Quare intrusit, a writ that formerly lay where the Lord proffered a suitable marriage to his ward, who rejected it, and entered into the land, and married another, for the value of his marriage not
Family
roof, constituted a 'family' (pp. 303-04). The word 'family' in statute authorizing use of income for support of ward and 'family' is not restricted to those individuals to whom ward owes a legal duty of support, but
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Agillarius
Agillarius, a hey-ward, a heard-ward, or keeper of cattle in a common field, solemnly sworn at the lord's court. There were two sorts, one of the town or village, another of the lord of the manor,...
H'rede deliberando alteri habet custodiam terr'
ancient writ directed to the sheriff to require one that had the body of an heir being in ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land, Reg. Brev. 161.
Magna Carta
the vigorous administration of Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second
Maritagium
Maritagium, 1. A lord's right to arrange a married for his infant ward 2. Dower 3. Dowry; a marriage gift, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 980. Maritagium, the portion which
Revishment de gard
Revishment de gard (ravishment of ward), an abolished writ which lay for a guardian, by knight's service or in socage, against a person who
Barrio
In Spain and countries colonized by Spain a village ward or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs in Spanish speaking areas of cities
Bungalow
enclosing that floor, either with or without gables, but the space under the roof may be utilised; see Ward v. Paterson, (1929) 2 Ch 396 (restrictive covenant). Bungalow, is a building of which the walls, with the
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