Law Dictionary

Abbreviation for “judge.”

Now; yet.

Judge advocate.

James, King of England.

Lying down; in abeyance.

An inheritance which is in abeyance.

An inherit- down of astone. One of the modes, under ance in abeyance, See H®repi TaAs J ACENS. SS the civil law, of interrupting prescription.

/. To lie. Jacens: lying, Jacet in ore: it lies in the mouth.

It lies in the mouth.

A kind of defensive coat-armor worn by horsemen in war; not made of solid iron, but of many plates fastened together. Some tenants were bound by their tenure to find it upon invasi

See title Horse.

An English hangman or executioner.

An effigy personifying Lent.

although the judge need not make formal findings of fact or write an opinion, his conclusion that the confession is voluntary must appear from the record with unmistakable clarity

Figuratively it signifies the records of a court or office. In Pennsylvania the master of the rolls was aa officer in whose office were recorded the acts of the legislature. 1 Smit

A gold coin an inch and thr^ eighths in diameter, in value about twentyfive shillings, so called from James I., in whose reign it was first coined. It was also called broad, laurel

Throwing out; a false boasting.

In English ecclesiastical law. The boasting by an individual that he or she has married another, from which it may happen that they will acquire the reputation of being married to

The boasting by a man that he is entitled to certain tithes, to which he has legally no title.

One who is in default, or loses by default. Spelman. JACTURA (Lat. jaeeo, to throw). A jettison. JACTUS (Lat.) A throwing goods overboard to lighten or save the vessel, in which ca

I. In old English law. Thrown In the civil law. The throwing of jettison; the thing thrown overboard.

Jettison; loss thereby. See Jettison .

Jettison, which see. See, also, 51 U. S. 270, 13 L. Ed. 417.

In the civil law. The throwing down of a stone (of a structure being erected on land). One of the means whereby the true ovroer might assert his title, and interrupt the running of

jademeins, jadnmeins, 2. Jail. V. Gaol

In old English law. The remuneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods, #AGROTO. Lat. Being sick or indispose

A term generally substituted in modern usage for "gaol" (q. v.).

See "Gaol Delivery."

A keeper or warden of a prison or jail.

See "Gaol Liberties."

Same as Gaol liberties.

jalemeyns, ja le ineyns, nevertheless; sometimes; moreover;

The wings or side aisles of a church. Blount.

Leg-arnior. Blount. janu) a remedy for this injuryis provided under the name of an “action of jactitation.” JAMMA, JUMMA. In Hindu law. Total amount; collection; assembly, The JACT

In old English and feudal law. Leg-armor. Blount.

King of England, 16031625.

King of England, 16851689.

In Hindu law. A written schedule of the whole of an assessment.

In Hindu law. Total amount; collection; assembly. The total of a territorial assignment.

J AM U N D I LI N G I. Freemen who delivered themselves and property to the protection of a more powerful person, in order to avoid military service and other burdens. Spelman, Glo

Furze or grass or ground where furze grows; as distinguished from "arable," "pasture," or the like. Co. Litt. 5a.

or JAMUNDILINGI. Freemen who delivered themselves and property to the protection of a more powerful person, among the Germans. Du Cange. The same as commendati. JANITOR (Lat.) In o

Freemen who delivered themselves and property to the protection of a more powerful person, in order to avoid military service and other burdens. Spelman. Also a species of serfs am

Freemen who subjected themselves and their property to service for protection.

I. In old English law. putting together, or including of Judicial discretion: a discretion by the law; a perceiving by, of what would be just. Judicial will take of a fact without

A doorkeeper.

In old English law. Small money.

Authority to judge, or administer justice; power to act judicially; power or right to pronounce judgment In a more general sense, power to make law, to legislate or govern; right o

the consignees agree that, if the shipowner has used due diligence to make the ship seaworthy, the cargo is to be liable in general average when the sacrifice or expense results fr

justities, I I. In English law. That you justice; a writ, sometimes called breve de justiciando, giving the sheriff authority

Yeomen retained by the sheriff to escort the .judge of assize.

In Scotch law. Jailer or gaoler. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33.

Fr. I have failed; I am in error. An error or oversight in plead- Certain statutes are called “statutes of amendments aud jeofailes” because, where a pleader perceives any slip in

In the civil law. The age next to infancy; the first half of the period of childhood, (puerttia,) extending from seven years to ten and ahalf. Inst. 3, 20, 9; 4 Bl. Comm. 22. #TAS

To judgment; to court. um provecare,; to summon to court; ence an action; a term of the Roman Dig. 5, 1, 18, 14.

In the civil law. Against the will, (testament.) Dig. 37, 4.

The aggregate of of procedure or practice. As opposed £ body of law which the courts are established to administer, (called “substantive law,”) it means the rules according te whic

Lynch law. Rapalje^& L.

Same as Jedburgh justice.

Same as Jedburgh justice.

In old records. Yeoman. Cowell ; Blount.

the field in which a state may not validly provide for compensation must be taken, for the purposes of the Act, as the same field which the Jensen line of decision excluded from st

(Law Ft.) I give; I do. JEOFAILE (Law Fr.) I have failed; I am in error. Certain statutes are called statutes of amendments and jeofailes, because, where a pleader perceives any sl

An oversight or mistake in ment of an oversight Jeofails, to amend, to cure errors in pleading, Edw. IIL, St 3, c. 6.

In Fr. I have failed; I am in error. An error or oversight in pleading. Certain statutes are called "statutes of amendments and Jeofailes" because, where a pleader perceives any sl

A mistake or error in a pleading.

' Hazard; danger; peril.* 1. The act of March 3, 1825, § 22, prescribes additional punishment for any person who, in robbing the mail, puts the life of the carrier in jeopardy by t

Peril; danger. See Baldw. (U. S.) 93. The usual technical use of the term is in connection with the rule of criminal law, that no person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same

a defendant is placed in jeopardy in a criminal proceeding once the defendant is put to trial before the trier of the facts, whether the trier be a jury or a judge

It is an established rule that one is not put in jeopardy if the indictment under which he is tried is so radically defective that it would not support a judgment of conviction, an

the line between civil, remedial actions brought primarily to protect the government from financial loss and actions intended to authorize criminal punishment to vindicate public j

Before a person can be said to have been put in jeopardy of life or limb the court in which he was acquitted or convicted must have had jurisdiction to try him for the offense char

Same as Jeopardy.

Inthe civil law. Eguity, as opposed to strictum or summum jus, (g. bv.) Otherwise called aquum, aquum bonum, equim et bonum, equum et justum. Calvin. Aigquites agit in personam. Eq

I. In the Roman law. The treasury. Ms, I In the civil law. Money (literally, brass); any metallic money. Ms alienum: a debt; that which is due to another, ^s snnm: a debt; that whi

In English law. An ofl Scer ol the custom house, who oversees the> waiters. Tech. Diet. JET (Fr.) In French law. Jettison. Ord.

Jn old English law. Esnecy; the right or privilege of the eldest born. Spelman; Glany. lib. 7, ¢. 3; Fleta, lib. 2, ¢. 66, §§ 5, 6.

A large brass candlestick, usually hung in the middle of a church or choir. Cowell.

Lat. [from cestimare, to value; L. Fr. cestims.^ Valuation, rating, consideration. Cerpo* hamanaai, [libernnt cerp«tt,l nea reciplt Kstimatieaeai. The human body, [the body of a fr

Jettison, which see.

Goods cast out from a ship by way of jettison, and which sink, being thus distinguished from flotsam, jettisoned goods which float, and ligan, jettisoned goods, bound to some buoya

Same as Jettison.

Same as Jettison.

A tax laid on incoming ships.

The throwing overboard of part of the cargo, or any article on board a ship, or the cutting and casting away of masts, spars, rigging, sails, or other furniture, for the purpose of

A sort of dam intended to deflect the current of a stream, so as to deepen the channel or form an eddy below, thereby extending the bank. See 48 Or. 444, 120 Am. St. Rep. 827, 7 L.

In French Law. A kind of gambling or speculation, which consists of sales and purchases which bind neither of the parties to deliver the things which are the object of the sale, an

In French law. A kind of gambling or speculation, which consists of sales and purchases which bind neither of the parties to deliver the things which are the object of the sale, an

A precious stone; a gem; a personal ornament, consisting more or less of precious Stones. An ornament Intended to be worn on the person. The precise meaning of the word was discuss

I. In the Roman law. The ^dilitian edict, an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales the execution of which belonged to the curule cediles. ^ditus, editns, I In old English la

A street or railway car for exclusive accommodation of negroes.

A burglar’s prying-bar.

Abbreviation for “judges.”

Justice of the king’s bench.

A phrase used to indicate judicial decisions which construe away the meaning of statutes, or find meanings in them the legislature never intended. It is sometimes used as meaning,

1. In civil and old English law. To judge; to decide or determine judicially. Judicatio: judging. Judicatus, judicata, judicatum: adjudged. Jndlcatum solvere: to pay what was adjud

In old English and European law. The judgment of God; otherwise calied "divinum judicium," the "divine judgment." A term particularly applied to the ordeals by fire or hot iron and

Lat. In the civil and common law. An oath. Juramentum est affirmatio vel negatio de aliquo, attestatione sacrae rei firmata: an oath is an affirmation or denial respecting any matt

Z. In old English law. To swear; to make oath; to take an oath. Jnrare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cnltus: to swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of r

I. I. A jury, — so called because sworn well and truly to try the issue, etc.; the jurata, or common jury of the ancient law, otherwise called jurata patriae, a jury of the country