abolition. 1. The act of abolishing. 2. The state of being annulled or abrogated. 3. (usu. cap.) The legal termination of slavery in the United States. [Cases: Slaves 24. C.J.S. Peonage §§ 3–5.] 4. Civil law. Withdrawal of a criminal accusation; a sovereign’s remission of punishment for a crime. 5. Hist. Permission granted to the […]
Forfeitures Abolition Act 〈英〉《废除没收法》 即1870年《重罪法》〔Felony Act〕，它废除对重罪犯没收财产的做法。
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Hist. A court created in 1540 to assert the Crown’s right to income from a variety of feudal tenures. • The Court’s unpopularity led to its abolition in 1660.
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felony-murder rule. The doctrine holding that any death resulting from the commission or attempted commission of a felony is murder. • Most states restrict this rule to inherently dangerous felonies such as rape, arson, robbery, and burglary. Cf. MISDEMEANOR-MANSLAUGHTER RULE. [Cases: Homicide 575.] “[I]t seems fair to suggest that the future of felony murder is
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Court of the Marshalsea (mahr-sh[schwa]l-see). Hist. A court that moved about with the king, and had jurisdiction over certain cases arising within 12 miles of the king’s residence (an area known as the verge). • The Court’s steward and marshal acted as judges of the Court, and heard criminal cases and the common pleas of
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quare intrusit (kwair-ee in-troo-sit), n. [Law Latin “why he thrust in”] Hist. A writ allowing a lord to recover the value of a marriage, when the lord offered a suitable marriage to a ward but the ward rejected it and married someone else. • It was abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act, 1660, ch. 24.
A state law that abolishes the rights of action for monetary damages as solace for the emotional trauma occasioned by a loss of love and relationship. • The abolished rights of action include alienation of affections, breach of promise to marry, criminal conversation, and seduction of a person over the legal age of consent. Many
communism. 1. A political doctrine, based on Marxism, advocating the abolition of capitalism by ground-roots revolution; specif., a social and political doctrine advocating the abolition of private ownership in favor of common ownership of the means of production and the goods produced, each person contributing as able and receiving as needed. Cf. CAPITALISM. 2. Totalitarian
locality rule. 1. The doctrine that, in a professional-malpractice suit, the standard of care to be applied to the professional’s conduct is the reasonable care exercised by similar professionals in the same vicinity and professional community. [Cases: Health 620.] “With respect to medical doctors (and sometimes dentists and others), the standard of care has been