Search for: legalism
501 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALIENATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A transfer of title; or a legal conveyance of property to another.
502 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALIMONY.2 (Noah Webster)
An allowance made for the support of a woman, legally separated from her husband. The sum is fixed by the proper judge, and granted out of the husband’s estate.
503 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPREHEND.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To take or seize; to take hold of. In this literal sense, it is applied chiefly to taking or arresting persons by legal process, or with a view to trial; as to apprehend a thief.
504 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPURTENANT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, common appurtenant is that which is annexed to land, and can be claimed only by prescription or immemorial usage, or a legal presumption of a special grant.
505 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASSURANCE.12 (Noah Webster)
7. Any writing or legal evidence of the conveyance of property.
506 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ATTACH.2 (Noah Webster)
… by legal authority; to arrest the person by writ, to answer for a debt; applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being never used for the arrest of a …
507 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.
508 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.
509 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.
510 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.
511 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.
512 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZATION.1 (Noah Webster)
AUTHORIZATION, n. The act of giving authority, or legal power; establishment by authority.
513 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.
514 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To make legal; as, to authorize a marriage.
515 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.
516 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUTHORIZING.1 (Noah Webster)
AUTHORIZING, ppr. Giving authority to, or legal power, credit, or permission.
517 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AVAILABLENESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Competent power; legal force; validity; as the availableness of a title.
518 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.
519 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.
520 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.