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Abduction
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AbductionCriminal law. The carrying away of any person by force or fraud.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Fraud
Contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misrepresentation, or, secondly, in the concealment of a material fact. Fraud, force and vexation, are odious in law.
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Abbey, abbatia
Is a society of religious persons, having an abbot or abbessto preside over them.
Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Abbreviators
Ecclesiastical law Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bulls.
Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
Abdication
Government. 1) A simple renunciation of an office, generally understood of a supreme office. 2)When inferior magistrates decline or surrender their offices, they are said to make a resignation.
Abduction
Abearance
Behaviour; as, a recognizance to be of good abearance, signifiesto be of good behaviour.
Aberemurder
Obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter.
Abet
The act of encouraging or inciting another to do a certain thing, such as a crime. For example, many countries will equally punish a person who aids or abets another to commit a crime.
Abettor
Criminal law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets anotheron to commit a crime.
Abiding by plea
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order to afford time for notice of trial, the motion may be made in court for rule to abide or plead instanter.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Fraud
Contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misrepresentation, or, secondly, in the concealment of a material fact. Fraud, force and vexation, are odious in law.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Abbey, abbatia
Is a society of religious persons, having an abbot or abbessto preside over them.
Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Abbreviators
Ecclesiastical law Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bulls.
Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
Abdication
Government. 1) A simple renunciation of an office, generally understood of a supreme office. 2)When inferior magistrates decline or surrender their offices, they are said to make a resignation.
Abduction
Abearance
Behaviour; as, a recognizance to be of good abearance, signifiesto be of good behaviour.
Aberemurder
Obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter.
Abet
The act of encouraging or inciting another to do a certain thing, such as a crime. For example, many countries will equally punish a person who aids or abets another to commit a crime.
Abettor
Criminal law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets anotheron to commit a crime.
Abiding by plea
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order to afford time for notice of trial, the motion may be made in court for rule to abide or plead instanter.
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