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Point reserved
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Point reservedA point or question of law which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the hurried trial of a cause, rules in favor of the party offering it, but subject to revision on a motion for a new trial. If, after argument, it be found to have been ruled correctly, the verdict is supported; if otherwise, it is set aside .
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Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Trial
Practice., The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws, of the land, of the facts put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Favor
Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Subject
1) Contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. 2) Persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.
Motion
Practice. An application to a court by one of the parties in a cause, or his counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order of court
Argument
Practice.1) Cicero defines it ii probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. 2) The logicians define it more scientifically to be a means, which by its connexion between two extremes establishes a relation between them.
Verdict
The decision of a jury. In criminal cases, this is usually expressed as "guilty" or "not guilty".In a civil case, the verdict would be a finding for the plaintiff or for the defendant.
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Poinding
Scotch. law. That diligence, affecting movable subjects, by which their property is carried directly to, the creditor. Poinding is real or personal.
Poinding, personal
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Poinding, real
Poinding, real or poinding of the ground. Scotch law. Though it be properly a diligence, this is generally considered by lawyers as a species of real action, and is so called to distinguish it from personal poinding, which is founded merely on an obligation to pay.
Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
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Pocket parts
Supplements to law books in pamphlet form which are inserted in a pocket inside the back cover of the books to keep them current.
Poinding
Scotch. law. That diligence, affecting movable subjects, by which their property is carried directly to, the creditor. Poinding is real or personal.
Poinding, personal
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Poinding, real
Poinding, real or poinding of the ground. Scotch law. Though it be properly a diligence, this is generally considered by lawyers as a species of real action, and is so called to distinguish it from personal poinding, which is founded merely on an obligation to pay.
Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Point reserved
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
Poison
Criminal law. Those substances which, when applied to the organs of the body, are capable of altering or destroying, in a majority of cases, some or all of the functions necessary to life, are called poisons
Pole
A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half.
Police
That species of superintendence by magistrates which has principally for its object the maintenance of public tranquillity among the citizens. The officers who are appointed for this purpose are also called the police.
Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
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Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Trial
Practice., The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws, of the land, of the facts put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Favor
Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Subject
1) Contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. 2) Persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.
Motion
Practice. An application to a court by one of the parties in a cause, or his counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order of court
Argument
Practice.1) Cicero defines it ii probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. 2) The logicians define it more scientifically to be a means, which by its connexion between two extremes establishes a relation between them.
Verdict
The decision of a jury. In criminal cases, this is usually expressed as "guilty" or "not guilty".In a civil case, the verdict would be a finding for the plaintiff or for the defendant.
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Poinding
Scotch. law. That diligence, affecting movable subjects, by which their property is carried directly to, the creditor. Poinding is real or personal.
Poinding, personal
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Poinding, real
Poinding, real or poinding of the ground. Scotch law. Though it be properly a diligence, this is generally considered by lawyers as a species of real action, and is so called to distinguish it from personal poinding, which is founded merely on an obligation to pay.
Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Pocket parts
Supplements to law books in pamphlet form which are inserted in a pocket inside the back cover of the books to keep them current.
Poinding
Scotch. law. That diligence, affecting movable subjects, by which their property is carried directly to, the creditor. Poinding is real or personal.
Poinding, personal
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Poinding, real
Poinding, real or poinding of the ground. Scotch law. Though it be properly a diligence, this is generally considered by lawyers as a species of real action, and is so called to distinguish it from personal poinding, which is founded merely on an obligation to pay.
Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Point reserved
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
Poison
Criminal law. Those substances which, when applied to the organs of the body, are capable of altering or destroying, in a majority of cases, some or all of the functions necessary to life, are called poisons
Pole
A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half.
Police
That species of superintendence by magistrates which has principally for its object the maintenance of public tranquillity among the citizens. The officers who are appointed for this purpose are also called the police.
Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
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