lawful fence. A strong, substantial, and well-suited barrier that is sufficient to prevent animals from escaping property and to protect the property from trespassers. — Also termed legal fence; good and lawful fence. Cf. SPITE FENCE . [Cases: Animals 92; Fences 1, 19. C.J.S. Animals §§ 243–246, 248.]
fence-month. Hist. The summer fawning season when it was unlawful to hunt deer. — Also termed defense-month.
fence, n. 1. A person who receives stolen goods. — Also termed (historically) intaker. [Cases: Receiving Stolen Goods 4. C.J.S. Receiving or Transferring Stolen Goods and Related Offenses §§ 4, 6–7, 12.] “The receivers of stolen goods almost never ‘know’ that they have been stolen, in the sense that they could testify to it in
spite fence. A fence erected solely to annoy a neighbor, as by blocking the neighbor’s view or preventing the neighbor from acquiring an easement of light (the court temporarily enjoined the completion of the 25-foot spite fence). Cf. LAWFUL FENCE. [Cases: Adjoining Landowners 10; Fences 22; Nuisance 3(12). C.J.S. Adjoining Landowners §§ 68–69, 71, 74;
sedition, n. 1. An agreement, communication, or other preliminary activity aimed at inciting treason or some lesser commotion against public authority. 2. Advocacy aimed at inciting or producing — and likely to incite or produce — imminent lawless action. • At common law, sedition included defaming a member of the royal family or the government.
simony (sim-[schwa]-nee orsI-m[schwa]-nee), n. [fr. Latin simonia “payment for things spiritual,” fr. the proper name Simon Magus (see below)] Hist. Eccles. law. The unlawful practice of giving or receiving money or gifts in exchange for spiritual promotion; esp., the unlawful buying or selling of a benefice or the right to present clergy to a vacant
danger. 1. Peril; exposure to harm, loss, pain, or other negative result. 2. A cause of peril; a menace. apparent danger. 1. Obvious danger; real danger. — Also termed patent danger. 2. Criminal law. The perceived danger in one person’s actions toward another, as a result of which it seems necessary for the threatened person
corrupt, adj. 1. Archaic. (Of a person) subject to corruption of blood. “[T]here are divers offences made Treason by Act of Parliament, whereof, though a Man be Attaint, yet his Blood, by Provisoes therein, is not corrupt, nor shall he forfeit any thing….” Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670). 2. Having an unlawful or depraved
rescue, n. 1. The act or an instance of saving or freeing someone from danger or captivity. 2. The forcible and unlawful freeing of a person from arrest or imprisonment. — Also termed rescous. [Cases: Rescue 1. C.J.S. Escape §§ 28–31, 33.] “A rescue signifies a forcible setting at liberty, against law, of a person