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Acquittal
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Acquittal1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
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Release
1) Estates. The "conveyance of a man's interest or right, which he hath unto a thing, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some estate therein." 2) Contracts. A release is the giving or discharging of a right of action which a man has or may claim against another, or that which is his. 3) Releases are of two kinds: 1) Such as give up, discharge, or abandon a right of action. 2) Such as convey a man's interest or right to another, who has possession of it, or some estate in the same.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Obligation
In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synony- mous with duty. In a more technical meaning, it is a tie which binds us to pay or to do something agreeably to the laws and customs of the country in which the obligation is made.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Absolution
A definite sentence whereby a man accused of any crime is acquitted.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
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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.
Acquired citizenship
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
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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
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittal
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.
Act in pais
An act performed out of court, and not a matter of record. A deed or an assurance transacted between two or more private persons in the country is matter in pais.
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Release
1) Estates. The "conveyance of a man's interest or right, which he hath unto a thing, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some estate therein." 2) Contracts. A release is the giving or discharging of a right of action which a man has or may claim against another, or that which is his. 3) Releases are of two kinds: 1) Such as give up, discharge, or abandon a right of action. 2) Such as convey a man's interest or right to another, who has possession of it, or some estate in the same.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Obligation
In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synony- mous with duty. In a more technical meaning, it is a tie which binds us to pay or to do something agreeably to the laws and customs of the country in which the obligation is made.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Absolution
A definite sentence whereby a man accused of any crime is acquitted.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
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.
Acquired citizenship
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittal
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.
Act in pais
An act performed out of court, and not a matter of record. A deed or an assurance transacted between two or more private persons in the country is matter in pais.
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