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Corregidor
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CorregidorSpanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of 'various misdemeanors and of civil matters.
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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.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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Corrective justice
A doctrine, inherent to the U.S. legal system, especially U.S. tort law. The American legal system is corrective in principle rather than distributive, attempting to correct each case individually by claims which may end in suit.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
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Corpus cum causa
Practice. The writ of habeas corpus cum causa is a writ commanding -the person to whom it is directed, to have the body, together with the cause for which he is committed, before the court or judge issuing the same.
Corpus delicti
The body of the offence; the essence of the crime
Corpus juris canonici
The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law bears this name.
Corpus juris civilis
The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels.
Corrective justice
A doctrine, inherent to the U.S. legal system, especially U.S. tort law. The American legal system is corrective in principle rather than distributive, attempting to correct each case individually by claims which may end in suit.
Corregidor
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Corrective justice
A doctrine, inherent to the U.S. legal system, especially U.S. tort law. The American legal system is corrective in principle rather than distributive, attempting to correct each case individually by claims which may end in suit.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Corpus cum causa
Practice. The writ of habeas corpus cum causa is a writ commanding -the person to whom it is directed, to have the body, together with the cause for which he is committed, before the court or judge issuing the same.
Corpus delicti
The body of the offence; the essence of the crime
Corpus juris canonici
The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law bears this name.
Corpus juris civilis
The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels.
Corrective justice
A doctrine, inherent to the U.S. legal system, especially U.S. tort law. The American legal system is corrective in principle rather than distributive, attempting to correct each case individually by claims which may end in suit.
Corregidor
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
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