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Causa matrimonii praelocuti
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Causa matrimonii praelocutiEnglish 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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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.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
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.
Simple
Not compounded, alone; as, simple interest, which is interest on the principal sum lent only and not interest on the interest; simple contract, &c.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Request
1) Contracts. A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it, that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract. 2) Pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought.
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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 sine qua non
A cause without which a thing cannot be or exist: as, a cause without which an injury could not have occurred.
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.
Cause of action
The fact or facts which give a person a right to relief in court.
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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.
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
Causa sine qua non
A cause without which a thing cannot be or exist: as, a cause without which an injury could not have occurred.
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.
Cause of action
The fact or facts which give a person a right to relief in court.
Cautio pro expensis
Security for costs or expenses.
Caution
1) It signifies, sometimes, security, or security promised. Generally every writing is called cautio, a caution by which any object is provided for. 2) Turatory, Scotch law. Juratory caution is that which a suspender swears is the best he can offer in order to obtain a suspension. Where the suspender cannot, from his low or suspected circumstances, procure unquestionable security, juratory caution is admitted.
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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.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
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.
Simple
Not compounded, alone; as, simple interest, which is interest on the principal sum lent only and not interest on the interest; simple contract, &c.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Request
1) Contracts. A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it, that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract. 2) Pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought.
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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 sine qua non
A cause without which a thing cannot be or exist: as, a cause without which an injury could not have occurred.
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.
Cause of action
The fact or facts which give a person a right to relief in court.
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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.
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
Causa sine qua non
A cause without which a thing cannot be or exist: as, a cause without which an injury could not have occurred.
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.
Cause of action
The fact or facts which give a person a right to relief in court.
Cautio pro expensis
Security for costs or expenses.
Caution
1) It signifies, sometimes, security, or security promised. Generally every writing is called cautio, a caution by which any object is provided for. 2) Turatory, Scotch law. Juratory caution is that which a suspender swears is the best he can offer in order to obtain a suspension. Where the suspender cannot, from his low or suspected circumstances, procure unquestionable security, juratory caution is admitted.
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