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To quarter
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To quarterA barbarous punishment formerly inflicted on criminals by tearing them to pieces by means of four horses, one attached to each limb.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
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To quash
Practice. To overthrow or annul.
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To open a credit
When a banker accepts or pays a bill of exchange drawn on him by a correspondent, who has not furnished him with funds, he is said to open a credit with the drawer.
To pack
1) To deceive by false appearance; to counterfeit; to delude; as packing a jury. 2) Civil law. An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify, one already made, conventio est duorum in idem placitum consensus de re solvenda, id. est facienda vel praestanda.
To pass
To accomplish, to complete, to decide.
To plunder
The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder.
To put
Pleading. To select, to demand; as, the said C D puts himself upon the country; that is, he selects the trial by jury, as the mode of settling the matter in dispute, and does not rely upon an issue in law.
To quarter
To quash
Practice. To overthrow or annul.
To set aside
To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award.
To utter
Criminal law. To offer, to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that it should be passed in order to complete the offence of uttering.
Toft
A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage.
Togati
Roman civil law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
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To quash
Practice. To overthrow or annul.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
To open a credit
When a banker accepts or pays a bill of exchange drawn on him by a correspondent, who has not furnished him with funds, he is said to open a credit with the drawer.
To pack
1) To deceive by false appearance; to counterfeit; to delude; as packing a jury. 2) Civil law. An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify, one already made, conventio est duorum in idem placitum consensus de re solvenda, id. est facienda vel praestanda.
To pass
To accomplish, to complete, to decide.
To plunder
The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder.
To put
Pleading. To select, to demand; as, the said C D puts himself upon the country; that is, he selects the trial by jury, as the mode of settling the matter in dispute, and does not rely upon an issue in law.
To quarter
To quash
Practice. To overthrow or annul.
To set aside
To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award.
To utter
Criminal law. To offer, to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that it should be passed in order to complete the offence of uttering.
Toft
A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage.
Togati
Roman civil law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts.
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