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Limited jurisdiction
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Limited jurisdictionRefers to courts that are limited in the types of criminal and civil cases they may hear. For example, traffic violations generally are heard by limited jurisdiction courts.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Traffic
Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
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Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
Limited liability
Shareholders in a limited company are only liable to third parties to the limit of their shareholding. Other participants would not normally have any personal liability except with respect to creditors where there has been wrongful or fraudulent trading or when personal guarantees or other such undertakings have been given by directors or others.
Limited partner
A unique colleague in a partnership relationship who has agreed to be liable only to the extent of his (or her) investment. Limited partners, though, have no right to manage the partnership. Limited partners are usually just investors or promoters who seek the tax benefits of a partnership
Limitrophe
Adjacent, bordering or contiguous.
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Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
Limbs
Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law.
Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
Limited jurisdiction
Limited liability
Shareholders in a limited company are only liable to third parties to the limit of their shareholding. Other participants would not normally have any personal liability except with respect to creditors where there has been wrongful or fraudulent trading or when personal guarantees or other such undertakings have been given by directors or others.
Limited partner
A unique colleague in a partnership relationship who has agreed to be liable only to the extent of his (or her) investment. Limited partners, though, have no right to manage the partnership. Limited partners are usually just investors or promoters who seek the tax benefits of a partnership
Limitrophe
Adjacent, bordering or contiguous.
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Lineage
Properly speaking lineage is the relationship of persons in a direct line; as the grandfather, the father, the son, the grandson, &c.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Traffic
Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
Limited liability
Shareholders in a limited company are only liable to third parties to the limit of their shareholding. Other participants would not normally have any personal liability except with respect to creditors where there has been wrongful or fraudulent trading or when personal guarantees or other such undertakings have been given by directors or others.
Limited partner
A unique colleague in a partnership relationship who has agreed to be liable only to the extent of his (or her) investment. Limited partners, though, have no right to manage the partnership. Limited partners are usually just investors or promoters who seek the tax benefits of a partnership
Limitrophe
Adjacent, bordering or contiguous.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
Limbs
Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law.
Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
Limited jurisdiction
Limited liability
Shareholders in a limited company are only liable to third parties to the limit of their shareholding. Other participants would not normally have any personal liability except with respect to creditors where there has been wrongful or fraudulent trading or when personal guarantees or other such undertakings have been given by directors or others.
Limited partner
A unique colleague in a partnership relationship who has agreed to be liable only to the extent of his (or her) investment. Limited partners, though, have no right to manage the partnership. Limited partners are usually just investors or promoters who seek the tax benefits of a partnership
Limitrophe
Adjacent, bordering or contiguous.
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Lineage
Properly speaking lineage is the relationship of persons in a direct line; as the grandfather, the father, the son, the grandson, &c.
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