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Culprit
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CulpritCriminal law. When a prisoner is arraigned, and he pleads not guilty, in the English practice, the clerk, who arraigns him on behalf of the crown, replies that the prisoner is guilty, and that he is ready to prove the accusation.
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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.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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.
Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Accusation
Criminal law. A charge made to a competent officer against one who has committed a crime or misdemeanor, so that he may be brought to justice and punishment.
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Culpa
A fault committed without fraud, and this distinguishes it from dolus, which is a trick to deceive.
Culpa lata
Latin for gross negligence. It is more than just simple negligence and includes any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
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Cui ante divortium
The name of an ancient writ, which was issued in favor of a woman divorced from her hushand, to recover the lands and tenements which she had in fee simple, or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her hushand alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay it.
Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos
Latin: who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the heavens. This principle of land ownership has been greatly tempered by case law which has limited ownership upwards to the extent necessary to maintain structures. Otherwise, airplanes would trespass incessantly.
Cul de sac
This is a French phrase, which signifies, literally, the bottom of a bag, and, figuratively, a street not open at both ends. It seems not to be settled whether a cul de sac is to be considered a highway.
Culpa
A fault committed without fraud, and this distinguishes it from dolus, which is a trick to deceive.
Culpa lata
Latin for gross negligence. It is more than just simple negligence and includes any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
Culprit
Cum onere
This term is usually employed to show that something is taken, subject to a charge or burden.
Cum pertinentis
With the appurtenances.
Cumul
The combination of contractual and extra-contractual recourses in a single claim or suit. “Cumul” is acceptable in common law jurisdictions. Civil law on the other hand usually resolves the tort/contract problems by prohibiting the “cumul” and usually imposing the contractual relationship.
Cumulative
Forming a heap
Cumulative legacy
Accumulative legacy. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thing, as money, or whether it be of different things, as, one hundred dollars, in one legacy, and a thousand dollars in another, or whether the sums are equal or whether the legacies are of a different naturer.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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.
Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Accusation
Criminal law. A charge made to a competent officer against one who has committed a crime or misdemeanor, so that he may be brought to justice and punishment.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Culpa
A fault committed without fraud, and this distinguishes it from dolus, which is a trick to deceive.
Culpa lata
Latin for gross negligence. It is more than just simple negligence and includes any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Cui ante divortium
The name of an ancient writ, which was issued in favor of a woman divorced from her hushand, to recover the lands and tenements which she had in fee simple, or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her hushand alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay it.
Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos
Latin: who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the heavens. This principle of land ownership has been greatly tempered by case law which has limited ownership upwards to the extent necessary to maintain structures. Otherwise, airplanes would trespass incessantly.
Cul de sac
This is a French phrase, which signifies, literally, the bottom of a bag, and, figuratively, a street not open at both ends. It seems not to be settled whether a cul de sac is to be considered a highway.
Culpa
A fault committed without fraud, and this distinguishes it from dolus, which is a trick to deceive.
Culpa lata
Latin for gross negligence. It is more than just simple negligence and includes any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
Culprit
Cum onere
This term is usually employed to show that something is taken, subject to a charge or burden.
Cum pertinentis
With the appurtenances.
Cumul
The combination of contractual and extra-contractual recourses in a single claim or suit. “Cumul” is acceptable in common law jurisdictions. Civil law on the other hand usually resolves the tort/contract problems by prohibiting the “cumul” and usually imposing the contractual relationship.
Cumulative
Forming a heap
Cumulative legacy
Accumulative legacy. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thing, as money, or whether it be of different things, as, one hundred dollars, in one legacy, and a thousand dollars in another, or whether the sums are equal or whether the legacies are of a different naturer.
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