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521 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CANONICAL.3 (Noah Webster)
… be legally performed in the church.
522 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPABLE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Qualified for, in a moral sense; having legal power or capacity; as, a bastard is not capable of inheriting an estate.
523 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPACITATE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To endue with moral qualifications; to qualify; to furnish with legal powers; as, to capacitate one for an office.
524 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPACITY.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Ability, in a moral or legal sense; qualification; legal power or right; as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate.
525 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAUSE.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; any legal process which a party institutes to obtain his demand, or by which he seeks his right or his supposed right. This is a legal, scriptural and popular …
526 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CESS.2 (Noah Webster)
CESS, v.i. To neglect a legal duty.
527 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHANCERY.2 (Noah Webster)
… ordinary legal court holds pleas of recognizance acknowledged in the chancery, writs of scire facias, for repeal of letters patent, writs of partition, and …
528 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CITE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To call upon officially, or authoritatively; to summon; to give legal or official notice, as to a defendant to appear in court, to answer or defend.
529 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIVIL.16 (Noah Webster)
12. Civil year, the legal year, or annual account of time which a government appoints to be used in its own dominions, as distinguished from the natural year, which is measured by the revolution of the heavenly bodies.
530 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEAR.41 (Noah Webster)
10. In a legal sense, to acquit on trial, by verdict; as, the prisoner has been tried and cleared.
531 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COGNIZANCE.7 (Noah Webster)
… it legally as the bailiff of another person who had a right to distrain.
532 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COHABIT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife; usually or often applied to persons not legally married.
533 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COHABITATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The state of living together as man and wife, without being legally married.
534 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COIN.8 (Noah Webster)
Current coin is coin legally stamped and circulating in trade.
535 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COINER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A counterfeiter of the legal coin; a maker of base money.
536 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMON.17 (Noah Webster)
Common recovery, a legal process for recovering an estate or barring entails.
537 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPETENCE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as the competence of a witness, which consists in his having the qualifications required by law, as age, soundness of mind, impartiality, etc.
538 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPETENCE.7 (Noah Webster)
4. Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as the competence of a judge or court to examine and decide.
539 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPETENCE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Fitness; adequacy; suitableness; legal sufficiency; as the competency of evidence.
540 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPETENT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Qualified; fit; having legal capacity or power; as a competent judge or court; a competent witness. In a judge or court, it implies right or authority to hear and determine; in a witness, it implies a legal right or capacity to testify.