Search for: legalism

601 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOOD.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Valid; legally firm; not weak or defective; having strength adequate to its support; as a good title; a good deed; a good claim.

602 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HABITANCY.1 (Noah Webster)

HABITANCY, n. Legal settlement or inhabitancy. [See Inhabitancy.]

603 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIRE.2 (Noah Webster)

1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.

604 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOLD.24 (Noah Webster)

15. To confine; to bind; in a legal or moral sense. He is held to perform his covenants.

606 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. Il.1 (Noah Webster)

… , not legal; or it denotes to or on, and merely augments or enforces the sense, as in illuminate.

607 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ILLEGAL.1 (Noah Webster)

ILLEGAL, a. [See Legal.] Not legal; unlawful; contrary to law; illicit; as an illegal act; illegal trade.

608 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPRISONMENT.3 (Noah Webster)

… , without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant …

609 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPURE.7 (Noah Webster)

6. Unclean; in a legal sense; not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses.

610 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPURENESS.7 (Noah Webster)

5. Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.

611 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INALIENABLE.2 (Noah Webster)

… be legally or justly alienated or transferred to another. The dominions of a king are inalienable. All men have certain natural rights which are inalienable …

612 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPABILITY.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Want of legal qualifications or of legal power; as the incapability of holding an office.

613 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPABLE.8 (Noah Webster)

… a legal sense; not having the legal or constitutional qualifications. A man not thirty years of age is unqualified, and therefore incapable of holding the …

614 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPACITATE.6 (Noah Webster)

5. To disqualify; to deprive of legal or constitutional requisites; as, conviction of a crime incapacitates one to be a witness.

615 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPACITY.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.

616 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPATIBLE.4 (Noah Webster)

3. Legally or constitutionally inconsistent; that cannot be united in the same person, without violating the law or constitution. By our constitution, the …

617 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENCE.4 (Noah Webster)

3. Want of legal or constitutional qualifications; as the incompetency of a witness.

618 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENT.4 (Noah Webster)

3. Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications. A person convicted of a crime, is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity.

619 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENT.7 (Noah Webster)

6. Unfit; improper; legally unavailable.

620 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCORPORATE.11 (Noah Webster)

… a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals, with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited …