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Areopagus
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AreopagusA tribunal established in ancient Athens, bore this name. It is variously represented; some considered as having been a model of justice and perfection, while others look upon it as an aristocratic court, which had a very extended jurisdiction over all crimes and offences, and which exercised an absolute power.
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Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Model
A machine made on a small scale to show the manner in which it is to be worked or employed.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Absolute
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond;
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
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Areopagite
A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus.
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Archives
Ancient cbarters or titles, which concern a nation, state, or community, in their rights or privileges. The place where the archives are kept bears the same name.
Archivist
One to whose care the archives have been confided.
Are
A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet.
Area
An enclosed yard or opening in a house; an open place adjoining to a house.
Areopagite
A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus.
Areopagus
Argentum album
White money; silver coin.
Argument
Practice.1) Cicero defines it ii probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. 2) The logicians define it more scientifically to be a means, which by its connexion between two extremes establishes a relation between them.
Argument list
A list of cases put down for the argument of some point of law.
Argumentativeness
What is used by way of reasoning in pleading is so called.
Argumentum ab inconvenienti
An argument arising from the inconvenience which the construction of the law would create, is to have effect only in a case where the law is doubtful where the law is certain, such an argument is of no force.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Model
A machine made on a small scale to show the manner in which it is to be worked or employed.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Absolute
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond;
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Areopagite
A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Archives
Ancient cbarters or titles, which concern a nation, state, or community, in their rights or privileges. The place where the archives are kept bears the same name.
Archivist
One to whose care the archives have been confided.
Are
A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet.
Area
An enclosed yard or opening in a house; an open place adjoining to a house.
Areopagite
A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus.
Areopagus
Argentum album
White money; silver coin.
Argument
Practice.1) Cicero defines it ii probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. 2) The logicians define it more scientifically to be a means, which by its connexion between two extremes establishes a relation between them.
Argument list
A list of cases put down for the argument of some point of law.
Argumentativeness
What is used by way of reasoning in pleading is so called.
Argumentum ab inconvenienti
An argument arising from the inconvenience which the construction of the law would create, is to have effect only in a case where the law is doubtful where the law is certain, such an argument is of no force.
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