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Acquired citizenship
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Acquired citizenshipCitizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
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Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
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Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
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Achat
French. Signifies a purchase. It is used in some of our law books, as well as achetor, a purchaser, which in some ancient statutes means purveyor.
Acherset
Obsolete. An ancient English measure of grain, supposed to be the same with their quarter or eight bushels.
Acknowledgment
A formal declaration before an authorized official by the person who executed an instrument that it is his free act and deed; the certificate of the official on such instrument attesting that it was so acknowledged.
Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquired citizenship
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
Acre
Measures. A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, andfour in breadth, or one hundred and sixty square perches, of whatever shapemay be the land.
Acredulitare
Obsolete. To purge one's self of an offence by oath. It frequently happens that when a person has been arrested for a contempt, he comes into court and purges himself, on oath, of having intended any contempt.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
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Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
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Achat
French. Signifies a purchase. It is used in some of our law books, as well as achetor, a purchaser, which in some ancient statutes means purveyor.
Acherset
Obsolete. An ancient English measure of grain, supposed to be the same with their quarter or eight bushels.
Acknowledgment
A formal declaration before an authorized official by the person who executed an instrument that it is his free act and deed; the certificate of the official on such instrument attesting that it was so acknowledged.
Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquired citizenship
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
Acre
Measures. A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, andfour in breadth, or one hundred and sixty square perches, of whatever shapemay be the land.
Acredulitare
Obsolete. To purge one's self of an offence by oath. It frequently happens that when a person has been arrested for a contempt, he comes into court and purges himself, on oath, of having intended any contempt.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
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