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Canons of descent or canons of inheritance
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Canons of descent or canons of inheritanceThe rules which regulate the descent of inheritances; the rules according to which estates are transmitted from ancestor to heir.
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Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
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Canon
Ecclesiastical law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons.
Canon
Canon means a rule or particularily a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a certain field, here referred to the law field.
Canon law
The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have the proper jurisdiction over:
Canonist
One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
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Cancellation of removal
A discretionary benefit adjusting an alien’s status from that of deportable alien to one lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Application for cancellation of removal is made during the course of a hearing before an immigration judge
Candidate
One who offers himself or is offered by others for an office.
Canon
Ecclesiastical law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons.
Canon law
The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have the proper jurisdiction over:
Canonist
One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.
Canons of descent or canons of inheritance
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Capax
Latin. Receiving or containing: able, fit for; having capacity.
Capax doli
Capable of committing crime. This is said of one who has sufficient mind and understanding to be made responsible for his actions.
Cape
English law. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements.
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Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
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Canon
Ecclesiastical law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons.
Canon
Canon means a rule or particularily a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a certain field, here referred to the law field.
Canon law
The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have the proper jurisdiction over:
Canonist
One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
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Cancellation of removal
A discretionary benefit adjusting an alien’s status from that of deportable alien to one lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Application for cancellation of removal is made during the course of a hearing before an immigration judge
Candidate
One who offers himself or is offered by others for an office.
Canon
Ecclesiastical law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons.
Canon law
The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have the proper jurisdiction over:
Canonist
One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.
Canons of descent or canons of inheritance
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Capax
Latin. Receiving or containing: able, fit for; having capacity.
Capax doli
Capable of committing crime. This is said of one who has sufficient mind and understanding to be made responsible for his actions.
Cape
English law. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements.
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