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Convict boss
Convict bossIn the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner given authority in a prison system. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Penitentiary A prison for the punishment of convicts. Prisoner One held in confinement against his will. Authority Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands. Prison A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- Convene Civil law. This is a technical term, signifying to bring an action. Conventio Canon law. The act of convening or calling together the parties, by summoning the defendant. Conventio vincit legem Agreement takes the place of the law: the express understanding of parties supersedes such understanding of parties supersedes such understanding as the law would imply. Parties are permitted to make law for themselves where their agreements do not violate the express provisions of any municipal law nor injuriously affect the interests of the public. 22 N.Y. 219. Convention 1) Contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. 2) , legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other purposes than usual legislation. It is mostly used to denote all assembly to make or amend the constitution of, a state, but it sometimes indicates an assembly of the delegates of the people to nominate officers to be supported at an election. Conventional heir Civil law. A conventional heir is one who takes a succession by virtue of a contract; for example, a marriage contract, which entitles the heir to the succession. Conversant One who is in the habit of being in a particular place, is said to be conversant there. Conversion The uulawful turning or applying the personal goods of another to the use of the taker, or of some other person than the, owner; or the unlawful destroying or altering their nature. Convey To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means. Conveyance A written document which transfers property from one person to another. In real-estate law, the conveyance usually refers to the actual document which transfers ownership, between persons living (i.e. other than by will), or which charges the land with another's interest, such as a mortgage. Conveyancer One who makes it his business to draw deeds of conveyance of lands for others Conveyances at common law Some of these may be called original or primary, those by means whereof the benefit or estate is created or first arises.; others, derivative or secondary, those whereby the benefit or estate originally created is enlarged, restrained, transferred, or estinguished. Original are: feoffment, gift, grant, lease, exchange, partition. Derivative are: release, confirmation, surrender, assignment, defeasance- each of which pre-supposes some other conveyance precedent. 2 Bl. Com. 309, 324. At common law, words of conveyance were give, grant, bargain and sell, alien, enfeoff, release, confirm, quitclaim. Convicium Civil law. The name of a species of slander, or, in the meaning of the civil law, injury, uttered in pubic, and which charged some one with some act contra bonos mores. Convict One who has been condemned by a competent court. This term is wore commonly applied to one who has been convicted of a crime or misdemeanor. Convict (prison) In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner with traditional values. One who has pride and respect, who maintains integrity, who is not an informant, whose word is good. A convict is different from an inmate. Conviction The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty. It is the finding of a judge or jury, on behalf of the state, that a person has, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime for which he, or she, has been accused. It is the ultimate goal of the prosecution and the result resisted by the defense. Once convicted, an accused may then be sentenced. Convocation Ecclesiastical law. This word literally signifies called together. The assembly of the representatives of the clergy. Convoy Maritime law. A naval force under the command of an officer appointed by government, for the protection of merchant ships and others, during the whole voyage, or such part of it as is known to require such protection. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Click In the US penitentiary slang, a group of prisoners who use their combined strength, a clique. When two or more prisoners attack one prisoner. Click up In the US penitentiary slang, to join a gang. Clipper pass In the US penitentiary slang, a special shaving pass that allows prisoners with medical conditions to shave only once a week or to wear short beards. Commandos (prison) In the US penitentiary slang, prisoners who go to another prisoners bunk or cell, after lights out, for sexual reasons. Convict (prison) In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner with traditional values. One who has pride and respect, who maintains integrity, who is not an informant, whose word is good. A convict is different from an inmate. Convict boss Code 21 In the US penitentiary slang, masturbation. Corner (prison) In the US penitentiary slang, a corner is defined by who a man hangs out with. That's his corner. Count (prison) In the US penitentiary slang, the institutional count, repeated at different times in the day. Everything stops while prison staff make sure no one is missing. Cowboy (prison) "In the US penitentiary slang, a new officer. Spelled backwards, its ""yobwoc:"" young, obnoxious, bastard we often con." Crime of passion (jail) In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner serving time on a sex crime. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Convict boss. If you have a better definition for Convict boss than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. 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