Juridical Dictionary

This dictionary contains:
8526
juridical terms

Locator






Locator

Civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2nd. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3rd. To keep the thing hired in good order in such manner that the hirer may enjoy it. 4th. To warrant that the thing hired has not such defects as to destroy its use.

RELATED TERMS
--------------------------------------

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.

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.

Hire
"Contracts. A bailment, where a compensation is to be given for the use of a thing, or for labor or services about it. The contract of letting and hiring is usually divided into two kinds; first, Locatio, or Locatio conductio rei, the bailment of a thing to be used by the hirer, for a compensation to be paid by him. Secondly, Locatio operis, or the hire of the labor and services of the hirer, for a compensation to be paid by the letter.

Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.

Are
A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet.

Hirer
Contracts. Called, in the civil law, conductor, and, in the French law conducteur, procureur, locataire, is he who takes a thing from another, to use it, and pays a compensation therefor.

Free
"1) Not bound to servitude; at liberty to act as one pleases. This word is put in opposition to slave. 2) Ships. By this is understood neutral vessels. Free ships are sometimes considered as making free goods.

Enjoyment
The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his pleasure.

Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.

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.

Use
1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy.



SIMILAR TERMS
--------------------------------------

Local
Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular place; local allegiance, or allegiance due while you are in a particular place or country; local taxes, or those which are collected for particular districts.

Local action
Practice, pleadings. An action is local when the venue must be laid in the county where the cause of action arose.

Locality
Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life rent of terce.

Locatio
Hire; a letting out.

Locatio conductio
Civil law. Location conduction is a consensual contract, by which a person becomes bound to deliver to another the use of a thing for a certain time, or to do work at. a certain price.

Locatio mercium vehendarum
Contracts. A term used in the civil law to signify the carriage of goods for hire.

Locatio operis
Contracts. A term used in the civil law, to signify the hiring of labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be performed by the other, who binds himself to do it for the price agreed between them, which he who gives the work to be done promises to pay to the other for doing it. This is divided into two branches, first, Locatio operis faciendi; and, secondly, Locatio mercium vehendarum.

Locatio operis faciendi
Contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the hire of labor and services; such as the hire of tailors to make clothes, and of jewelers to set gems, and of watchmakers to repair watches.Secondly, Locatio custodiae, or the receiving of goods on deposit for a reward, which is properly the hire of care and attention about the goods.

Locatio rei
Contracts. A term used in the civil law, which signifies the hiring of a thing. It is a contract by which one of the parties obligates himself to, give to the other the use and enjoyment, of a certain thing for a period of time agreed upon between them, and in consideration of a price which the latter binds himself to pay in return.

Location
1) Contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 2) estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's office.



PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS
--------------------------------------

Locatio mercium vehendarum
Contracts. A term used in the civil law to signify the carriage of goods for hire.

Locatio operis
Contracts. A term used in the civil law, to signify the hiring of labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be performed by the other, who binds himself to do it for the price agreed between them, which he who gives the work to be done promises to pay to the other for doing it. This is divided into two branches, first, Locatio operis faciendi; and, secondly, Locatio mercium vehendarum.

Locatio operis faciendi
Contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the hire of labor and services; such as the hire of tailors to make clothes, and of jewelers to set gems, and of watchmakers to repair watches.Secondly, Locatio custodiae, or the receiving of goods on deposit for a reward, which is properly the hire of care and attention about the goods.

Locatio rei
Contracts. A term used in the civil law, which signifies the hiring of a thing. It is a contract by which one of the parties obligates himself to, give to the other the use and enjoyment, of a certain thing for a period of time agreed upon between them, and in consideration of a price which the latter binds himself to pay in return.

Location
1) Contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 2) estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's office.

Locator

Lock-up house
A place used, temporarily as a prison.

Loco parentis
In the place of a parent.

Locum tenens
He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia.

Locus
The place where a thing is done.

Locus contractus
The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract is made, governs in everything which relates to the mode of construing it.

We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Locator. If you have a better definition for Locator than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Locator may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Locator and any other medical topic for the public at large.
 


This dictionary contains 8526 terms.