Under statutes granting the right of appeal to the party aggrieved by an order or judgment the party aggrieved is one whose pecuniary interest is directly Affected by the adjudication; one whose right of property may be established or divested thereby. Or one against whom error has been committed. … [Read more...]

In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used In the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, (q. v.) Ersk. Inst. b. 1, tit 7, … [Read more...]

The party who first offers violence or offense. He who begins a quarrel or dispute, either by threatening or striking another. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. The term included "all the cognates who trace their connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates is formed by taking each lineal ancestor in turn and including all his descendants of both sexes in the tabular view. If, then, in tracing the various branches of such a genealogical table or tree, we stop whenever we come to the name of a female, and … [Read more...]

Having suffered loss or injury; damnified; injured. … [Read more...]