Search for: legalism
501 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ATTACHABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
ATTACHABLE, a. That may be legally attached; liable to be taken by writ or precept.
502 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ATTAINDER.4 (Noah Webster)
Upon the thorough demonstration of which guilt by legal attainder, the feudal covenant is broken.
503 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ATTORNEY.2 (Noah Webster)
… which legal rights are involved. The word answers to the procurator, (proctor,) of the civilians.
504 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUDIT.4 (Noah Webster)
AUDIT, v.t. To examine and adjust an account or accounts, by proper officers, or by persons legally authorized for the purpose; as, to audit the accounts of a treasurer, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.
505 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children. Power; rule; sway.
506 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZATION.1 (Noah Webster)
AUTHORIZATION, n. The act of giving authority, or legal power; establishment by authority.
507 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To give authority, warrant or legal power to; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle the boundary of the state.
508 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To make legal; as, to authorize a marriage.
509 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZED.1 (Noah Webster)
AUTHORIZED, pp. Warranted by right; supported by authority; derived from legal or proper authority; having power or authority.
510 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZING.1 (Noah Webster)
AUTHORIZING, ppr. Giving authority to, or legal power, credit, or permission.
511 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AVAILABLENESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Competent power; legal force; validity; as the availableness of a title.
512 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AVOW.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, to acknowledge and justify; as when the distrainer of goods defends in an action of replevin, and avows the taking, but insists that such taking was legal.
513 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BANKRUPT-SYSTEM.1 (Noah Webster)
BANKRUPT-SYSTEM, n. A system of laws and legal proceedings in regard to bankrupts and their property.
514 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BASTARDIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to convict of being a bastard; to declare legally, or decide a person to be illegitimate.
515 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONG.15 (Noah Webster)
9. To have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
516 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONGING.1 (Noah Webster)
BELONGING, ppr. Pertaining; appertaining; being the property of; being a quality of; being the concern of; being appendant to; being a native of, or having a legal or permanent settlement in.
517 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BIPARTITE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party.
518 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BLANK.13 (Noah Webster)
3. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
519 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOTTOMRY.1 (Noah Webster)
… the legal rate of interest. The tackle of the ship also is answerable for the debt, as well as the person of the borrower. When a loan is made upon the goods shipped …
520 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAMP-FIGHT.1 (Noah Webster)
CAMP-FIGHT, n. In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions, for the decision of a controversy. [Camp in W. Is a game, and campiaw is to contend.]