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Captator
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CaptatorFrench law. The name which is sometimes given, to him who by flattery and artifice endeavors to surprise testators, and induce them to. give legacies or devices, or to make him some other gift.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Surprise
This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into a contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised.
Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
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Captation
French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it.
Caption
Practice. That part of a legal instrument which shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found or executed.
Captor
War. One who has talken property from an enemy; this term is also employed to designate one who has taken an enemy.
Capture
A taking, seizure.Technically, a taking by military power; a seizure, a taking by civil authority.
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Capitation
A poll tax; an imposition which is yearly laid on each person according to his estate and ability.
Capite
Descents. By the head. Distribution or succession per capita, is said to take place when every one of the kindred in equal degree, and not jure representationis, receive an equal part of an estate.
Capitularies
The Capitularia or Capitularies, was a code of laws promulgated by Childebert, Clotaire, Carloman, Pepin, Charlemague, and other kings. It was so called from the small chapters or heads into which they were divided.
Capitulation
1) War. The treaty which determines the conditions under which a fortified place is abandoned to the commanding officer of the army which besieges it. 2) Civ.law. An agreement by which the prince and the people, or those who have the right of. the people, regulate the manner in which the government is to be administered.
Captation
French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it.
Captator
Caption
Practice. That part of a legal instrument which shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found or executed.
Captor
War. One who has talken property from an enemy; this term is also employed to designate one who has taken an enemy.
Capture
A taking, seizure.Technically, a taking by military power; a seizure, a taking by civil authority.
Caput lupinum
English law. Having the head of a wolf. An outlawed felon was said to have the head of a wolf, and might have been killed by any one legally.
Caput mortuum
A dead head: a matter of no legal validity; a thing void as to all persons and for all purposes.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Surprise
This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into a contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised.
Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
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Captation
French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it.
Caption
Practice. That part of a legal instrument which shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found or executed.
Captor
War. One who has talken property from an enemy; this term is also employed to designate one who has taken an enemy.
Capture
A taking, seizure.Technically, a taking by military power; a seizure, a taking by civil authority.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Capitation
A poll tax; an imposition which is yearly laid on each person according to his estate and ability.
Capite
Descents. By the head. Distribution or succession per capita, is said to take place when every one of the kindred in equal degree, and not jure representationis, receive an equal part of an estate.
Capitularies
The Capitularia or Capitularies, was a code of laws promulgated by Childebert, Clotaire, Carloman, Pepin, Charlemague, and other kings. It was so called from the small chapters or heads into which they were divided.
Capitulation
1) War. The treaty which determines the conditions under which a fortified place is abandoned to the commanding officer of the army which besieges it. 2) Civ.law. An agreement by which the prince and the people, or those who have the right of. the people, regulate the manner in which the government is to be administered.
Captation
French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it.
Captator
Caption
Practice. That part of a legal instrument which shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found or executed.
Captor
War. One who has talken property from an enemy; this term is also employed to designate one who has taken an enemy.
Capture
A taking, seizure.Technically, a taking by military power; a seizure, a taking by civil authority.
Caput lupinum
English law. Having the head of a wolf. An outlawed felon was said to have the head of a wolf, and might have been killed by any one legally.
Caput mortuum
A dead head: a matter of no legal validity; a thing void as to all persons and for all purposes.
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