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Case
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Case1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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Carrying away
Criminal law. To complete the crime of larceny, the thief must not only feloniously tale the thing stolen, but carry it away.
Cart bote
An allowance to the tenant of wood, sufficient for carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Carte blanche
The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing.
Cartel
War. An agreement between two belligerent powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters, and also a written challenge to a duel.
Cartmen
Persons who carry goods and merchandise in carts, either for great or short distances, for hire.
Case
Case method
In fraud Investigation, a six-step process of gathering evidence in order to identify a Suspect.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
Cash-book
Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same thing ought to be made under the proper dates, in the journal. The object of the cash-book is to afford a constant facility to ascertain the true state of a man's cash.
Cassation
French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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Carrying away
Criminal law. To complete the crime of larceny, the thief must not only feloniously tale the thing stolen, but carry it away.
Cart bote
An allowance to the tenant of wood, sufficient for carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Carte blanche
The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing.
Cartel
War. An agreement between two belligerent powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters, and also a written challenge to a duel.
Cartmen
Persons who carry goods and merchandise in carts, either for great or short distances, for hire.
Case
Case method
In fraud Investigation, a six-step process of gathering evidence in order to identify a Suspect.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
Cash-book
Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same thing ought to be made under the proper dates, in the journal. The object of the cash-book is to afford a constant facility to ascertain the true state of a man's cash.
Cassation
French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled.
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