castle-guard, n. Hist. 1. The protection of a castle. 2. A form of knight-service in which a tenant must protect the lord’s castle. 3. The tenure giving rise to this knight-service. 4. A tax once imposed in lieu of this knight-service. 5. The territory that is chargeable with the tax imposed in lieu of the […]
adulterine ([schwa]-d[schwa]l-t[schwa]-rin), adj. 1. Characterized by adulteration. 2. Illegal; unli-censed. 3. Born of adultery. 4. Of or involving adultery. adulterine, n. Archaic. An illegitimate child.
pandect (pan-dekt). 1. A complete legal code, esp. of a nation or a system of law, together with commentary. 2. (cap. & pl.) The 50 books constituting Justinian’s Digest (one of the four works making up the Corpus Juris Civilis), first published in A.D. 533. • The substance of 2,000 treatises was distilled into this
A special election, available to certain shareholders, that determines how the distributions received in liquidation by electing shareholders will be treated for federal income-tax purposes. • To qualify for the election, the corporation must be completely liquidated within one month. IRC § 333.
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residuary clause. Wills & estates. A testamentary clause that disposes of any estate property remaining after the satisfaction of all other gifts. [Cases: Wills 586. C.J.S. Wills §§ 1176–1179, 1184.]
summoner. Hist. A petty officer charged with summoning parties to appear in court. See NUNTIUS(3). “But process, as we are now to consider it, is the method taken by the law to compel a compliance with the original writ, of which the primary step is by giving the party notice to obey it. This notice
An equitable plea consisting in both affirmative and negative matter. • That is, it is partly confession and avoidance and partly traverse. The plea is appropriate when the plaintiff, in the bill, has anticipated the plea, and the defendant then traverses the anticipatory matters. — Also termed plea not pure. Cf. pure plea.
joyriding, n. The illegal driving of someone else’s automobile without permission, but with no intent to deprive the owner of it permanently. • Under the Model Penal Code, the offender’s reasonable belief that the owner would have consented is an affirmative defense. See Model Penal Code § 223. 9. — Also termed unauthorized use of
converter, n. One who wrongfully possesses or disposes of another’s property; esp., one who engages in a series of acts of willful interference, without lawful justification, with an item of property in a manner inconsistent with another’s right, whereby that other person is deprived of the use and possession of the property. innocent converter. A
wear, n. [fr. Saxon were “a taking”] Hist. A dam made of stakes interlaced by twigs of willows that are placed across a river to more easily accommodate the netting of fish. — Also termed weir.