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A term descriptive of the result when a case has gone off, and no verdict has been pronounced, without the fault, contrivance, or management of the parties. Jebb & B. 51. … [Read more...] about ABORTIVE TRIAL

The state of being absent, removed, or away from one's domicile, or usual place of residence. Absence is of a fivefold kind: (1) A necessary absence, as in banished or transported persons ; this is entirely necessary. (2) Necessary and voluntary, as upon the account of the commonwealth, or in the service of the church. (3) A probable absence, according to the civilians, as that … [Read more...] about ABSENCE

One of the steps in the process of naturalizing an alien. It consists in a formal declaration, made by the party under oath before a competent authority, that he renounces and abjures all the allegiance and fidelity which he owes to the sovereign whose subject he has theretofore been. … [Read more...] about ABJURATION OF ALLEGIANCE

The fruit of an abortion; the child born before its time, incapable of life. See Abortion; Birth; Breath; Dead bord; Gestation; Life. ABOVE. Literally higher in place: But in law this word is sometimes used to designate the superior court, or one which may revise proceedings of an inferior court error, from such inferior jurisdiction. The court of error is called the court … [Read more...] about ABORTUS

Id ancient English law. A renunciation of one's country, a species of self imposed banishment, under an oath never to return to the kingdom unless by permission. This was formerly allowed to criminals, as a means of saving their lives, when -they had confessed their crimes, and fled to sanctuary. See 4 Bl. Comm. 332; Avery v. Everett, 110 N. Y. 317, 18 N. E. 148, 1 L B. A. 264, … [Read more...] about ABJURATION OF THE REALM