The fraternity of an abbey or priory, as societas is the number of fellows in a college. A religious house, now regarded as a merely voluntary association, not importing civil death. 33 Law J. Ch. 308. … [Read more...]

The transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition, as:' "Everything is good in its place." Converse, "Nothing is good which is not in its place." Wharton. … [Read more...]

A private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion. The word was first an appellation of reproach to the religious assemblies of Wycliffe in the reigns of pdward III. and Richard II., and was afterwards applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church. As this word In strict propriety denotes an unlawful assembly, It cannot be justly applied to the … [Read more...]

(A) torts. the unlawful turning or applying the personal goods of another to the use of the taker, or of some other person than the, owner; or the unlawful destroying or altering their nature. 2. When a party takes away or wrongfully assumes the right to goods which belong to another, it will in general be sufficient evidence of a conversion but when the original taking was, … [Read more...]

In canon law. The act of summoning or calling together the parties by summoning the defendant. La the civil law. A compact, agreement, or convention. An agreement between two or more persons respecting a legal relation between them. The term is one of very wide scope, and applies to all classes of subjects In which an engagement or business relation may be founded by agreement. … [Read more...]