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Approver
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ApproverEnglish Criminal law. One confessing himself guilty of felony, and approving others of the same crime to save himself.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
Felony
In some US states, any serious crime for which the possible maximum sentence is more than one year in prison. (Probation can be an alternative to prison in most felony crimes.)
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.
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Appraisal
The procedure for determining the fair market value of an asset for equitable distribution in divorce.
Appraisal report
A report of the results of an appraisal which begins with the definition of an appraisal problem and leads to a specific conclusion using reasoning and relevant descriptive data.
Appraisement
A just valuation of property.
Appraiser
Practice. A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods; as in case of the death of a person, an appraisement and inventory must be made of the goods of which he died possessed, or was entitled to. Appraisers are sometimes appointed to assess the damage done to property, by some public work, or to estimate its value when taken for public use.
Apprehension
Practice. The capture or arrest of a person.
Apprentice
Person, contracts. A person bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship.
Apprizing
A name for an action in the Scotch law, by which a creditor formerly carried off the estates of his debtor in payment of debts due to him in lieu of which, adjudications are now resorted to.
Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)
Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.
Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.
Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.
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Apprizing
A name for an action in the Scotch law, by which a creditor formerly carried off the estates of his debtor in payment of debts due to him in lieu of which, adjudications are now resorted to.
Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)
Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.
Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.
Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.
Approver
Appurtenance
Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing. An attachment or appendage to something else. Used often in a real estate context where an "appurtenance" may be, for example, a right-of-way over water, which, although physically detached, is part of the legal rights of the owner of another property.
Appurtenances
In common parlance and legal acceptation, is used to signify something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to the principal thing.
Appurtenant
Belonging to; pertaining to of right.
Aqua
Water. It is a rule that water belongs to the land which it covers, when it is stationary: aqua cedit solo. But the owner of running water, or of a water course, cannot stop it the inferior inheritance having a right to the flow.
Aquae ductus
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
Felony
In some US states, any serious crime for which the possible maximum sentence is more than one year in prison. (Probation can be an alternative to prison in most felony crimes.)
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Appraisal
The procedure for determining the fair market value of an asset for equitable distribution in divorce.
Appraisal report
A report of the results of an appraisal which begins with the definition of an appraisal problem and leads to a specific conclusion using reasoning and relevant descriptive data.
Appraisement
A just valuation of property.
Appraiser
Practice. A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods; as in case of the death of a person, an appraisement and inventory must be made of the goods of which he died possessed, or was entitled to. Appraisers are sometimes appointed to assess the damage done to property, by some public work, or to estimate its value when taken for public use.
Apprehension
Practice. The capture or arrest of a person.
Apprentice
Person, contracts. A person bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship.
Apprizing
A name for an action in the Scotch law, by which a creditor formerly carried off the estates of his debtor in payment of debts due to him in lieu of which, adjudications are now resorted to.
Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)
Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.
Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.
Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Apprizing
A name for an action in the Scotch law, by which a creditor formerly carried off the estates of his debtor in payment of debts due to him in lieu of which, adjudications are now resorted to.
Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)
Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.
Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.
Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.
Approver
Appurtenance
Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing. An attachment or appendage to something else. Used often in a real estate context where an "appurtenance" may be, for example, a right-of-way over water, which, although physically detached, is part of the legal rights of the owner of another property.
Appurtenances
In common parlance and legal acceptation, is used to signify something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to the principal thing.
Appurtenant
Belonging to; pertaining to of right.
Aqua
Water. It is a rule that water belongs to the land which it covers, when it is stationary: aqua cedit solo. But the owner of running water, or of a water course, cannot stop it the inferior inheritance having a right to the flow.
Aquae ductus
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another.
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