In international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of circumvallation round a place by which all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far as human power can effect it, to be cut off. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 151. It is not necessary, however, that the place should be invested by land, as well as by sea, in order to constitute a legal blockade; … [Read more...]

A statute (usually attributed to being created as a result of influence of the church) that prohibits a certain activity, most common is the prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays or Sunday mornings. … [Read more...]

Common short form of web blog which usually refers to a journal of regular articles that is published on the Internet. The content may be person in nature or may cover other business, news and political subjects. Much debate has been made over whether blogs are to be given the rights granted to the press. … [Read more...]

A supposititious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal conduct in the colonies of Connecticut' and New Haven; hence any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The assertion by some writers of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption, by the first authorities of the New Haven colony, of the Scriptures as their code of … [Read more...]

Kindred; consanguinity; family relationship; relation by descent from a common ancestor. One person Is "of the blood" of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Miller v. Speer, 38 N. J. Eq. 572; Delaplaine v. Jones, 8 N. J. Law, 346; Leigh v. Leigh, 15 Ves. 108; Cummings v. Cummings, 146 Mass. 501, 16 N. EL 401; Swasey v. Jaques, 144 Mass. 135, … [Read more...]