|
 |
||
 |
| This dictionary contains: 8526 juridical terms |
 |
Escape, warrant of
|
|
Escape, warrant ofA warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Warrant
Most commonly, a court order authorizing law enforcement officers to make an arrest or conduct a search. An application seeking a warrant must be accompanied by an affidavit which establishes probable cause by detailing the facts upon which the request is based.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.
Bench
The large, usually long and wide desk raised above the level of the rest of the courtroom, at which the judge or panel of judges sit.
Fleet
Punishment. English law. Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or ditch which was formerly there, on the side of which it stood.
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.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Mesne
The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Eregimus
We have erected.
Erie doctrine
The American rule that a U.S. federal district court exercising "diversity jurisdiction" (i.e. jurisdiction in a case in which the parties are from different U.S. states or where a foreigner sues an American citizen), must apply the law of the U.S. state in which it is sitting.
Erotic mania
Medical jurisprudence. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers.
Error, writ
A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record and correcting an alleged error committed in the trial in the court below. But it cannot deliver the body from prison.
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
Escape, warrant of
Escheat
Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. Escheat is based on the Latin principle of dominion directum as was often used in the feudal system when a tenant died without heirs or if the tenant was convicted of a felony.
Escheator
The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosecute the claim of the commonwealth for the purpose of recovering the escheated property.
Escrow
When the performance of something is outstanding and a third party holds onto money or a written document (such as shares or a deed) until a certain condition is met between the two contracting parties.
Escuage
Old English law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service.
Esnecy
Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to choose one of the parts of the estate after it has been divided.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Warrant
Most commonly, a court order authorizing law enforcement officers to make an arrest or conduct a search. An application seeking a warrant must be accompanied by an affidavit which establishes probable cause by detailing the facts upon which the request is based.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.
Bench
The large, usually long and wide desk raised above the level of the rest of the courtroom, at which the judge or panel of judges sit.
Fleet
Punishment. English law. Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or ditch which was formerly there, on the side of which it stood.
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.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Mesne
The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Eregimus
We have erected.
Erie doctrine
The American rule that a U.S. federal district court exercising "diversity jurisdiction" (i.e. jurisdiction in a case in which the parties are from different U.S. states or where a foreigner sues an American citizen), must apply the law of the U.S. state in which it is sitting.
Erotic mania
Medical jurisprudence. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers.
Error, writ
A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record and correcting an alleged error committed in the trial in the court below. But it cannot deliver the body from prison.
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
Escape, warrant of
Escheat
Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. Escheat is based on the Latin principle of dominion directum as was often used in the feudal system when a tenant died without heirs or if the tenant was convicted of a felony.
Escheator
The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosecute the claim of the commonwealth for the purpose of recovering the escheated property.
Escrow
When the performance of something is outstanding and a third party holds onto money or a written document (such as shares or a deed) until a certain condition is met between the two contracting parties.
Escuage
Old English law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service.
Esnecy
Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to choose one of the parts of the estate after it has been divided.
We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Escape, warrant of. If you have a better definition for Escape, warrant of than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Escape, warrant of may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Escape, warrant of and any other medical topic for the public at large.
This dictionary contains 8526 terms.
|
|