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Color or office
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Color or officeCriminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Wrong
An injury; a tort a violation of right. In its most usual sense, wrong signifies an injury committed to the person or property of another, or to his relative rights, unconnected with contract; and these wrongs are committed with or without force. But in a more extended signification, wrong includes the violation of a contract; a failure by a man to perform his undertaking or promise is a wrong or injury to him to whom it was made.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
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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 of title
That 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.
Color officii
By color of 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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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
That 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.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or 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.
Combination
1) A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machinery, or machines. 2) By combination is understood, in a bad sense, a union of men for the purpose of violating the law.
Combustio domorum
Burning of houses; arson.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Wrong
An injury; a tort a violation of right. In its most usual sense, wrong signifies an injury committed to the person or property of another, or to his relative rights, unconnected with contract; and these wrongs are committed with or without force. But in a more extended signification, wrong includes the violation of a contract; a failure by a man to perform his undertaking or promise is a wrong or injury to him to whom it was made.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
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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 of title
That 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.
Color officii
By color of 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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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
That 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.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or 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.
Combination
1) A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machinery, or machines. 2) By combination is understood, in a bad sense, a union of men for the purpose of violating the law.
Combustio domorum
Burning of houses; arson.
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