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Color of title
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Color of titleThat which in appearance is title, but which in reality is no title. Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56-59 (1855), cases. The resemblance or appearance of title. Whenever an instrument, by apt words of transfer from grantor to grantee, in form passes what purports to be the title, it gives color of title. Hall v. Law, 102 U.S. 466 (1880), Field, J.
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Appearance
The act of showing up in court as either plaintiff, defendant, accused or any other party to a civil or criminal suit. It implies that you accept the power of the court to try the matter (i.e. "jurisdiction"). Appearances are most often made by lawyers on their clients behalf and any appearance by a lawyer binds the client. You can make a limited appearance called a "special appearance" in which your presence is not to imply acceptance of the court's jurisdiction but, rather, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court. An example of the usefulness of a "special appearance" would be where you want to raise the fact that you were never properly served with the court papers.
Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.
Grantor
He by whom a grant is made.
Grantee
He to whom a grant is made.
Hall
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
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.
Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
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Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Pretense or semblance of legal right or authority
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
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Collude
In the context of Fraud, to act together for a fraudulent purpose.
Collusion
Fraud. An agreement between two or more persons, to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Pretense or semblance of legal right or authority
Color of title
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
Colt
An animal of the horse species, whether male or female, not more than four years old.
Combat
English law. The form of a forcible encounter between two or more persons or bodies of men; an engagement or battle. A duel.
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Appearance
The act of showing up in court as either plaintiff, defendant, accused or any other party to a civil or criminal suit. It implies that you accept the power of the court to try the matter (i.e. "jurisdiction"). Appearances are most often made by lawyers on their clients behalf and any appearance by a lawyer binds the client. You can make a limited appearance called a "special appearance" in which your presence is not to imply acceptance of the court's jurisdiction but, rather, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court. An example of the usefulness of a "special appearance" would be where you want to raise the fact that you were never properly served with the court papers.
Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.
Grantor
He by whom a grant is made.
Grantee
He to whom a grant is made.
Hall
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
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.
Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
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Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Pretense or semblance of legal right or authority
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
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Collude
In the context of Fraud, to act together for a fraudulent purpose.
Collusion
Fraud. An agreement between two or more persons, to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Pretense or semblance of legal right or authority
Color of title
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
Colt
An animal of the horse species, whether male or female, not more than four years old.
Combat
English law. The form of a forcible encounter between two or more persons or bodies of men; an engagement or battle. A duel.
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