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Circuity of action
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Circuity of actionPractice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.
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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.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
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.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.
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Church-warden
An officer whose duties are, as the name implies, to take care of, or guard the church.
Cinque ports
English law. Literally, five ports. The name by which tho five ports of Hastings, Ramenhale, Hetha or Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich, are known.
Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
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.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Church-warden
An officer whose duties are, as the name implies, to take care of, or guard the church.
Cinque ports
English law. Literally, five ports. The name by which tho five ports of Hastings, Ramenhale, Hetha or Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich, are known.
Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
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