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Advocation
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AdvocationScotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing out of a superior court for the removal of a cause from an inferior.
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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.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Bill
1) Legislation. An instrument drawn or presented by a member or committee to a legislative body for its approbation and enactment. After it has gone through both houses and received the constitutional sanction of the chief magistrate, where such approbation is requisite, it becomes a law. 2) Merchant law. An account containing the items of goods sold, or of work done by one person against another. 3) Contracts. A bill or obligation, is a deed whereby the obligor acknowledges himself to owe unto the obligee a certain sum of money or some other thing, in which, besides the names of the parties, are to be considered the sum or thing due, the time, place, and manner of payment or delivery thereof. It may be indented, or poll, and with or without a penalty.
Advocation
Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing out of a superior court for the removal of a cause from an inferior.
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.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Supreme
That which is superior to all other things; as the supreme power of the state, which is an authority over all others. The supreme court, which is superior to all other courts.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Decree
1) Legislation. In some countries as in France, some acts of the legislature, or of the sovereign, which have the force of law, are called decrees. 2) Practice. The judgment or sentence of a court of equity.
Warrant
Most commonly, a court order authorizing law enforcement officers to make an arrest or conduct a search. An application seeking a warrant must be accompanied by an affidavit which establishes probable cause by detailing the facts upon which the request is based.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
Certiorari
(United Kingdom) A writ from a High Court to a lower Court.
Superior
One who has a right to command; one who holds a superior rank; as, a soldier is bound to obey his superior. 2. In estates, some are superior to others; an estate entitled to a servitude or easement over another estate, is called the superior or dominant, and the other the inferior or servient estate.
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
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Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
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Advertisement
1) A 'notice' published either in handbills or in a newspaper. 2) The law in many instances requires parties to advertise in order to give notice of acts which are to be done; in these cases, the advertisement is in general equivalent to notice.
Advice
1) Com. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; when goods are forwarded by sea or land, the letter transmited to inform the consignee of the fact, is termed advice of goods, or letter of advice. When one merchant draws upon another, he generally advises him of the fact. These letters are intended to give notice of the facts they contain. 2) Practice. The opinion given by counsel to their clients; this should never be done but upon mature deliberation to the best of the counsel's ability; and without regard to the consideration whether it will affect the client favorably or unfavorably.
Advisement
Consideration, deliberation, consultation; as the court holds the case under advisement.
Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocation
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
Affection
Contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service.
Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
Affiance
Contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Bill
1) Legislation. An instrument drawn or presented by a member or committee to a legislative body for its approbation and enactment. After it has gone through both houses and received the constitutional sanction of the chief magistrate, where such approbation is requisite, it becomes a law. 2) Merchant law. An account containing the items of goods sold, or of work done by one person against another. 3) Contracts. A bill or obligation, is a deed whereby the obligor acknowledges himself to owe unto the obligee a certain sum of money or some other thing, in which, besides the names of the parties, are to be considered the sum or thing due, the time, place, and manner of payment or delivery thereof. It may be indented, or poll, and with or without a penalty.
Advocation
Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing out of a superior court for the removal of a cause from an inferior.
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.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Supreme
That which is superior to all other things; as the supreme power of the state, which is an authority over all others. The supreme court, which is superior to all other courts.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Decree
1) Legislation. In some countries as in France, some acts of the legislature, or of the sovereign, which have the force of law, are called decrees. 2) Practice. The judgment or sentence of a court of equity.
Warrant
Most commonly, a court order authorizing law enforcement officers to make an arrest or conduct a search. An application seeking a warrant must be accompanied by an affidavit which establishes probable cause by detailing the facts upon which the request is based.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
Certiorari
(United Kingdom) A writ from a High Court to a lower Court.
Superior
One who has a right to command; one who holds a superior rank; as, a soldier is bound to obey his superior. 2. In estates, some are superior to others; an estate entitled to a servitude or easement over another estate, is called the superior or dominant, and the other the inferior or servient estate.
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Advertisement
1) A 'notice' published either in handbills or in a newspaper. 2) The law in many instances requires parties to advertise in order to give notice of acts which are to be done; in these cases, the advertisement is in general equivalent to notice.
Advice
1) Com. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; when goods are forwarded by sea or land, the letter transmited to inform the consignee of the fact, is termed advice of goods, or letter of advice. When one merchant draws upon another, he generally advises him of the fact. These letters are intended to give notice of the facts they contain. 2) Practice. The opinion given by counsel to their clients; this should never be done but upon mature deliberation to the best of the counsel's ability; and without regard to the consideration whether it will affect the client favorably or unfavorably.
Advisement
Consideration, deliberation, consultation; as the court holds the case under advisement.
Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocation
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
Affection
Contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service.
Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
Affiance
Contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman.
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