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Assassin
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AssassinCrim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number of persons who support him, and kills his victim.
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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.
Assassin
Crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number of persons who support him, and kills his victim.
Traitorously
Pleadings. This is a technical word, which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any other word, or any kind of circumlocution. Having been well laid in the statement of the treason itself, it is not necessary to state every overt act to have been traitorously committed.
Arms
1) Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. 2) Heraldry. Signs of arms, or drawings painted on shields, banners, and the like.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
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Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
Assay
A chemical examination of metals, by which the quantity of valuable or precious metal contained in any mineral or metallic mixture is ascertained.
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Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
Asportation
The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another.
Assassin
Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
Assay
A chemical examination of metals, by which the quantity of valuable or precious metal contained in any mineral or metallic mixture is ascertained.
Assembly
The union of a number of persons in the same place.
Assessment
The making out a list of property, and fixing its valuation or appraisement; it is also applied to making out a list of persons, and appraising their several occupations, chiefly with a view of taxing the said persons and their property.
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.
Assassin
Crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number of persons who support him, and kills his victim.
Traitorously
Pleadings. This is a technical word, which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any other word, or any kind of circumlocution. Having been well laid in the statement of the treason itself, it is not necessary to state every overt act to have been traitorously committed.
Arms
1) Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. 2) Heraldry. Signs of arms, or drawings painted on shields, banners, and the like.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
Assay
A chemical examination of metals, by which the quantity of valuable or precious metal contained in any mineral or metallic mixture is ascertained.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
Asportation
The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another.
Assassin
Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
Assay
A chemical examination of metals, by which the quantity of valuable or precious metal contained in any mineral or metallic mixture is ascertained.
Assembly
The union of a number of persons in the same place.
Assessment
The making out a list of property, and fixing its valuation or appraisement; it is also applied to making out a list of persons, and appraising their several occupations, chiefly with a view of taxing the said persons and their property.
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