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Apostacy
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ApostacyEnglish law. A total renunciation of the Christian religion, and differs from heresy.
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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.
Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Renunciation
The act of giving up a right.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Religion
Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.
Heresy
1) English law. The adoption of any erroneous religious tenet, not warranted by the established church. 2) In other countries than England, by heresy is meant the profession, by Christians, of religious opinions contrary to the dogmas approved by the established church of the respective countries. For an account of the origin and progress of the laws against heresy.
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Apostles
In the British courts of admiralty, when a party appeals from a decision made against him, he prays apostles from the judge, which are brief letters of dismission, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted.
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Antithetarius
Old English law. The name given to a man who endeavors to discharge himself of the crime of which he is accused, by retorting the charge on the accuser.
Anti-trust
(USA) "Anti-trust" legislation is designed to prevent businesses from price-setting or other secret collaboration which circumvents the natural forces of a free market economy and gives those engaging in the anti-trust conduct, a covert competitive edge. Also known as "anti-combines" or "competition" legislation.
Antitrust acts
Federal and state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints, price discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies.
Anton piller order
An ex parte injunction used in U.K. and British Commonwealth jurisdictions, whereby the court authorizes a party to a civil action to enter and search premises and to inspect, photograph and/or remove property specified in the order which may be the subject-matter of, or be evidence in, the action. The order is only granted in exceptional circumstances.
Apartments
A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others.
Apostacy
Apostles
In the British courts of admiralty, when a party appeals from a decision made against him, he prays apostles from the judge, which are brief letters of dismission, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted.
Apparator
Apparator or apparitor. Ecclesiastical. law. An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England.
Apparent
That which is manifest what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass, should be made to appear, if matter in pays, under oath if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those things which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing de non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio.
Apparlement
Resemblance. It is said to be derived from pareillement, French, in like manner.
Appeal
1) English Criminal law. The accusation of a person, in a legal form, for a crime committed by him; or, it is the lawful declaration of another man's crime, before a competent judge, by one who sets his name to the declaration, and undertakes to prove it, upon the penalty which may ensue thereon. 2)Practice. The act by which a party submits to the decision of a superior court, a cause which has been tried in an inferior tribunal.
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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.
Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Renunciation
The act of giving up a right.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Religion
Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.
Heresy
1) English law. The adoption of any erroneous religious tenet, not warranted by the established church. 2) In other countries than England, by heresy is meant the profession, by Christians, of religious opinions contrary to the dogmas approved by the established church of the respective countries. For an account of the origin and progress of the laws against heresy.
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Apostles
In the British courts of admiralty, when a party appeals from a decision made against him, he prays apostles from the judge, which are brief letters of dismission, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Antithetarius
Old English law. The name given to a man who endeavors to discharge himself of the crime of which he is accused, by retorting the charge on the accuser.
Anti-trust
(USA) "Anti-trust" legislation is designed to prevent businesses from price-setting or other secret collaboration which circumvents the natural forces of a free market economy and gives those engaging in the anti-trust conduct, a covert competitive edge. Also known as "anti-combines" or "competition" legislation.
Antitrust acts
Federal and state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints, price discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies.
Anton piller order
An ex parte injunction used in U.K. and British Commonwealth jurisdictions, whereby the court authorizes a party to a civil action to enter and search premises and to inspect, photograph and/or remove property specified in the order which may be the subject-matter of, or be evidence in, the action. The order is only granted in exceptional circumstances.
Apartments
A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others.
Apostacy
Apostles
In the British courts of admiralty, when a party appeals from a decision made against him, he prays apostles from the judge, which are brief letters of dismission, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted.
Apparator
Apparator or apparitor. Ecclesiastical. law. An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England.
Apparent
That which is manifest what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass, should be made to appear, if matter in pays, under oath if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those things which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing de non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio.
Apparlement
Resemblance. It is said to be derived from pareillement, French, in like manner.
Appeal
1) English Criminal law. The accusation of a person, in a legal form, for a crime committed by him; or, it is the lawful declaration of another man's crime, before a competent judge, by one who sets his name to the declaration, and undertakes to prove it, upon the penalty which may ensue thereon. 2)Practice. The act by which a party submits to the decision of a superior court, a cause which has been tried in an inferior tribunal.
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