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A person who is indicted for a criminal offense, but not yet convicted. It is not, however, a technical term of the law; and in its vernacular usage it seems to imply only a light degree of censure or moral reprobation. Blackstone believes it an abbreviation of the old forms of arraignment, whereby, on the prisoner's pleading not guilty, the clerk would respond, "culpabilis, … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
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TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In old Scotch law. A species of pledge or cautioner, (Scottice, back horghy) used in cases of the replevin of persons from one man's court to another's. Skene. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a "common seller" of intoxicating liquors is an example. Wells v. Com.12 Gray (Mass.) 328. … [Read more...]
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A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, although not a stroke of labor may have been done in it since the seed was put in the ground, and it is a cultivated field after the crop is removed. It is, strictly, a cultivated piece of ground.. State v. Allen, 35 N. C. 30. … [Read more...]