Warrant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Del credere
additional premium or commission called a del credere commission engages when he sells goods on credit to insure warrant or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser the engagement of the factor being to pay
Ignoramus
formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill The phrase now used is ldquoNo billrdquo ldquoNo true billrdquo or
Obtrude
To thrust impertinently to present to a person without warrant or solicitation as to obtrude ones self upon a company to obtrude ones opinion on another
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Quo warranto
A writ brought before a proper tribunal to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts or exercises certain powers
Scurrilous
and indecent language of the meaner sort of people or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant as a scurrilous fellow
Abet
is said to instigate the doing of that thing. Illustration A, a public officer, is authorized by a warrant from a Court of Justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not
High bailiffs
by themselves, or the bailiffs appointed to assist them, to serve all summonses and orders, and execute all warrants, precepts, and writs of the Court except as in the Act provided. By the County Courts Act, 1934,
Messenger
to be sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under
Hypo-respect
Hypo-respect, an amount of respect lesser than that which is warranted. 'the law in the area of contempt of court must avoid the xtremes of hyper-reactivity to marginal indifference
Indecent prints or books
summary powers to metropolitan or other stipendiary magistrates, or any two justices of the peace, to issue special warrants to constables for the searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be
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