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Act of grace
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Act of graceScotch law. The name by which the statute which provides for the aliment of prisoners confined for civil debts, is usually known.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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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.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of law
An event which occurs in consequence of some principle of law.
Act of man
Every man of sound mind and discretion is bound by his own acts,and the law does not permit him to do any thing against it; and all acts are construed most strongly against him who does them
Act of war
The grievances section of a formal public declaration of war by a state.
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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.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of grace
Act of law
An event which occurs in consequence of some principle of law.
Act of man
Every man of sound mind and discretion is bound by his own acts,and the law does not permit him to do any thing against it; and all acts are construed most strongly against him who does them
Acta jure gestionis
Acts by right of management. Activities of a commercial nature carried out by a foreign State or one of its subdivisions or agencies, which acts are not immune from the jurisdiction and process of local courts under the modern doctrine of restrictive foreign sovereign immunity.
Acta jure imperii
Acts by right of dominion. Activities of a governmental or public nature carried out by a foreign State or one of its subdivisions, which qualify for State immunity under the modern doctrine of restrictive foreign sovereign immunity.
Actio
A doing, performing: an action, or right of action.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of law
An event which occurs in consequence of some principle of law.
Act of man
Every man of sound mind and discretion is bound by his own acts,and the law does not permit him to do any thing against it; and all acts are construed most strongly against him who does them
Act of war
The grievances section of a formal public declaration of war by a state.
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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.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of grace
Act of law
An event which occurs in consequence of some principle of law.
Act of man
Every man of sound mind and discretion is bound by his own acts,and the law does not permit him to do any thing against it; and all acts are construed most strongly against him who does them
Acta jure gestionis
Acts by right of management. Activities of a commercial nature carried out by a foreign State or one of its subdivisions or agencies, which acts are not immune from the jurisdiction and process of local courts under the modern doctrine of restrictive foreign sovereign immunity.
Acta jure imperii
Acts by right of dominion. Activities of a governmental or public nature carried out by a foreign State or one of its subdivisions, which qualify for State immunity under the modern doctrine of restrictive foreign sovereign immunity.
Actio
A doing, performing: an action, or right of action.
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