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Casus foedoris






Casus foedoris

When two nations have formed a treaty of alliance, in anticipation of a war or other difficulty with another, and it is required to determine the case in which the parties must act in consequence of the alliance, this is called the casus foederis, or case of alliance.

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When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.

Nations
Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength.

Treaty
International law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity, or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act, and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.

Alliance
A military treaty between two or more states, providing for a mutually-planned offensive, or for assistance in the case of attack on any member.

Anticipation
The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time.

Case
1) 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

Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.



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Casual
What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue's of the government, are those which are contingeut or uncertain.

Casual ejector
Pratice, ejectment. A person, supposed to come upon-land casually, who turns out the lessee of the person claiming the possession against the actual tenant or occupier of the land.

Casuproviso
Practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life.

Casus belli
Casus belli is a Latin expression from the international law theory of Jus Ad Bellum. Formally, the expression (which can be translated as "risk of war" or "occasion for war") is the grievances section of a formal public declaration of war by a state.

Casus fortuitus
A fortuitous case; an uncontrollable accident an act of God.

Casus omissus
An omitted case.



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Castigatory
Punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool.

Casting vote
Legislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the casting vote then decides the question.

Casual
What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue's of the government, are those which are contingeut or uncertain.

Casual ejector
Pratice, ejectment. A person, supposed to come upon-land casually, who turns out the lessee of the person claiming the possession against the actual tenant or occupier of the land.

Casuproviso
Practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life.

Casus foedoris

Casus fortuitus
A fortuitous case; an uncontrollable accident an act of God.

Casus omissus
An omitted case.

Catchpole
Officer. A name formerly given to a sheriff's deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons.

Causa
Latin. That which operates to produce an effect; that on account of which a thing is done; that which supplies a motice, or constitutes a reason.

Causa matrimonii praelocuti
English law. An obsolete writ, which lies when a woman gives land to a man in fee simple, or for a less estate, to the intent that he should marry her and he refuses upon request.

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