negligent, adj. Characterized by a person’s failure to exercise the degree of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised in the same circumstance (the negligent driver went through the stop sign) (negligent construction caused the bridge to collapse). [Cases: Automobiles 146; Negligence 200, 232. C.J.S. Motor Vehicles §§ 18, 41, 500–503, 506–510, 545–546, […]
emendatio (ee-men-day-shee-oh), n. [Latin] Hist. The power of amending and correcting abuses, according to certain rules and measures. emendatio panis et cerevisiae (ee-men-day-shee-oh pan-is et ser-[schwa]-vizh-ee-ee). [Latin “the correction of bread and ale”] The power of supervising and correcting (assizing) the weights and measures of bread and ale.
ex provisione mariti (eks pr[schwa]-vizh-ee-oh-nee m[schwa]-rI-tIormar-[ schwa]-tI). [Latin] From the provision of the husband.
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Lex Romana Visigothorum (leks r[schwa]-may-n[schwa] viz-[schwa]-gah-thor-[schwa]m). See BREVIARIUM ALARICIANUM.
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beneficium abstinendi (ben-[schwa]-fish-ee-[schwa]m ab-sti-nen-dI). [Latin “privilege of abstaining”] Roman law. The right of an heir to refuse an inheritance and thus avoid liability for the testator’s debts. “[T]hese heirs came also to be protected by the praetor, viz. by the jus or beneficium abstinendi. Provided they took care not to act as heir in any
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provisione tenus (pr[schwa]-vizh-ee-oh-nee ten-[schwa]s). [Law Latin] Hist. To the extent of the provision.
dediticii (ded-i-tish-ee-Ior dee-di-tI-shee-I), n. pl.[Latin “those who have surrendered”] Roman law. The lowest class of freemen whose members were ineligible for Roman citizenship, including enemies granted freedom in exchange for surrender, or, under the Lex Aelia Sentia, manumitted slaves convicted of a crime in a court, or branded or put in chains by their former
incivism (in-si-viz-[schwa]m). Unfriendliness toward one’s own country or its government; lack of good citizenship.
videlicet (vi-del-[schwa]-set or -sit). [Latin] To wit; that is to say; namely; SCILICET. • The term is used primarily to point out, particularize, or make more specific what has been previously stated in general (or occas. obscure) language. One common function is to state the time, place, or manner when that is the essence of
recidivism (ri-sid-[schwa]-viz-[schwa]m), n. A tendency to relapse into a habit of criminal activity or behavior. — Also termed (archaically) recidivation. — recidivous, recidivist, adj.