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Annotation
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AnnotationCivil law. The designation of a place of deportation.
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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.
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.
Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Deportation
Civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation and exile.
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Anno domini
The computation of time from the incarnation of our Saviour which is used as the date of all public deeds in the United tites and Christian countries, on which account it is called the "vulgar vera."
Annonae civiles
Civil law. A species of rent issuing out of certain lands, which were paid to Rome monasteries.
Annotations
Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
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Annexation
Property. The union of one thing to another. In the law relating to fixtures, annexation is actual or constructive. By actual annexation is understood every movement by which a chattel can be joined or united to the freehold. By constructive annexation is understood the union of such things as have been holden parcel of the realty, but which are not actually annexed, fixed, or fastened to the freehold; for example, deeds, or chattels, which relate to the title of the inheritance.
Anni nubiles
The age at which a girl becomes by law fit for marriage, which is twelve years.
Anniented
From the French aneantir; abrogated or made null.
Anno domini
The computation of time from the incarnation of our Saviour which is used as the date of all public deeds in the United tites and Christian countries, on which account it is called the "vulgar vera."
Annonae civiles
Civil law. A species of rent issuing out of certain lands, which were paid to Rome monasteries.
Annotation
Annotations
Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
Annual general meeting
Under the Companies Act 1985 a company must hold a meeting of shareholders in each calendar year to deal with matters such as the adoption of the previous year's financial statements, rotation of directors and the appointment of auditors. Shareholders may also use the opportunity to ask questions of the Board at the Annual General Meeting.
Annual pension
Scotch law. Annual rent. A yearly profit due to a creditor by way of interest for a given sum of money. Right of annual rent, the original right of burdening land with payment yearly for the payment of money.
Annulment
To make void; to cancel an event or judicial proceeding both retroactively and for the future. Where, for example, a marriage is annulled, it is struck from all records and stands as having never transpired in law. This differs from a divorce which merely cancels a valid marriage only from the date of the divorce. A marriage annulled stands, in law, as if never performed.
Annum diem et vastum
English law. The title which the king acquires in land, when a party, who held not of the king, is attainted of felony. He acquires the power not only to take the profits for a full year, but to waste and demolish houses, and to extirpate woods and trees.
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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.
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.
Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Deportation
Civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation and exile.
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Anno domini
The computation of time from the incarnation of our Saviour which is used as the date of all public deeds in the United tites and Christian countries, on which account it is called the "vulgar vera."
Annonae civiles
Civil law. A species of rent issuing out of certain lands, which were paid to Rome monasteries.
Annotations
Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
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Annexation
Property. The union of one thing to another. In the law relating to fixtures, annexation is actual or constructive. By actual annexation is understood every movement by which a chattel can be joined or united to the freehold. By constructive annexation is understood the union of such things as have been holden parcel of the realty, but which are not actually annexed, fixed, or fastened to the freehold; for example, deeds, or chattels, which relate to the title of the inheritance.
Anni nubiles
The age at which a girl becomes by law fit for marriage, which is twelve years.
Anniented
From the French aneantir; abrogated or made null.
Anno domini
The computation of time from the incarnation of our Saviour which is used as the date of all public deeds in the United tites and Christian countries, on which account it is called the "vulgar vera."
Annonae civiles
Civil law. A species of rent issuing out of certain lands, which were paid to Rome monasteries.
Annotation
Annotations
Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
Annual general meeting
Under the Companies Act 1985 a company must hold a meeting of shareholders in each calendar year to deal with matters such as the adoption of the previous year's financial statements, rotation of directors and the appointment of auditors. Shareholders may also use the opportunity to ask questions of the Board at the Annual General Meeting.
Annual pension
Scotch law. Annual rent. A yearly profit due to a creditor by way of interest for a given sum of money. Right of annual rent, the original right of burdening land with payment yearly for the payment of money.
Annulment
To make void; to cancel an event or judicial proceeding both retroactively and for the future. Where, for example, a marriage is annulled, it is struck from all records and stands as having never transpired in law. This differs from a divorce which merely cancels a valid marriage only from the date of the divorce. A marriage annulled stands, in law, as if never performed.
Annum diem et vastum
English law. The title which the king acquires in land, when a party, who held not of the king, is attainted of felony. He acquires the power not only to take the profits for a full year, but to waste and demolish houses, and to extirpate woods and trees.
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