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A plea in abatement is one mode
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A plea in abatement is one modeSometimes it is the duty of the court to abate a writ ex oficio. Where the writ is a nullity, so that judgment thereon would be incurably erroneous, it is de facto abated.
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Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Nullity
A decree indicating that a marriage is null and void.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Facto
In fact, in contradistinction to the lawfulness of the thing; it is applied to anything actually done.
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Ad Seg
Administrative segregation (prison jargon).
Aguas
In the US penitentiary slang, a Spanish word used to warn other prisoners thant an officer is making the rounds.
Ass betting
In the US penitentiary slang, gambling without any funds or means of paying back one's loses.
A fortiori
A Fortiori or fortiori. An epithet for any conclusion or inference, which is much stronger than another. "If it be so, in a feoffment passing a new right, a fortiori, much more is it for the restitution of an ancient right."
A mensa et thoro
From bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, is rather a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage. It may be granted for the causes of extreme cruelty or desertion of the wife by the hushand. This kind of divorce does not affect the legitimacy of children, nor authorize a second marriage.
A plea in abatement is one mode
A prendre
French.To take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a prendre or a right to take something out of the soil.
A quo
A Latin phrases which signifies from which; example, in the computation of time, the day a quo is not to be counted, but the day ad quem is always included.
A rendre
French. To render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre; under this term are comprehended rents and services.
A verbis legis non est recedendum
From the words of the law let there be no departing.
A vinculo matrimonii
From the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.
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Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Abate
To quash, beat down, destroy. That of abating a writ or action - its overthrow or defeat by some fatal exception to it.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Nullity
A decree indicating that a marriage is null and void.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Facto
In fact, in contradistinction to the lawfulness of the thing; it is applied to anything actually done.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Ad Seg
Administrative segregation (prison jargon).
Aguas
In the US penitentiary slang, a Spanish word used to warn other prisoners thant an officer is making the rounds.
Ass betting
In the US penitentiary slang, gambling without any funds or means of paying back one's loses.
A fortiori
A Fortiori or fortiori. An epithet for any conclusion or inference, which is much stronger than another. "If it be so, in a feoffment passing a new right, a fortiori, much more is it for the restitution of an ancient right."
A mensa et thoro
From bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, is rather a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage. It may be granted for the causes of extreme cruelty or desertion of the wife by the hushand. This kind of divorce does not affect the legitimacy of children, nor authorize a second marriage.
A plea in abatement is one mode
A prendre
French.To take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a prendre or a right to take something out of the soil.
A quo
A Latin phrases which signifies from which; example, in the computation of time, the day a quo is not to be counted, but the day ad quem is always included.
A rendre
French. To render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre; under this term are comprehended rents and services.
A verbis legis non est recedendum
From the words of the law let there be no departing.
A vinculo matrimonii
From the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.
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