To annul; cancel; make void; to destroy the efficacy of anything. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition 1. To annul or to cancel. To void. 2. To sidestep. … [Read more...]

A making void, or of no effect; annulling, cancelling; escaping or evading. In English ecclesiastical law. The term describes the condition of a benefice when it has no incumbent. In parliamentary language, avoidance of a decision signifies evading or superseding a question, or escaping the coming to a decision upon a pending question. Holthouse. In pleading. The allegation or … [Read more...]

crim. law, pleading. A plea made by a defendant, indicted for a crime or misdemeanor, that he has formerly been tried and acquitted of the same offence. 2. To be a bar, the acquittal must have been by trial, and by the verdict of a jury on a valid indictment. There must be an acquittal of the offence charged in law and in fact. 3. The Constitution of the U. S., Amend. Art. 5, … [Read more...]

Fr. To have. Aver et tener. In old conveyancing. To have and to hold. AVER, v. In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt. … [Read more...]

crim. law. Formerly attainted. 2. This is a good plea in bar, where a second trial would be quite superfluous. Where, therefore, any advantage either to public justice, or private individuals, would arise from a second prosecution, the plea will not prevent it; as where the criminal is indicted for treason after an attainder of felony, in which case the punishment will be more … [Read more...]