practice. In cases where a statute gives a party double or treble damages, the jury are to find single damages, and the court to enhance them, according to the statute Bro. Ab. Damages, pl. 70; 2 Inst. 416; 1 Wils. 126; 1 Mass. 155. In Sayer on Damages, p. 244, it is said, the jury may assess the statute damages and it would seem from some of the modern cases, that either the … [Read more...]

The alleging, for one single purpose, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all. Vide Duplicity. … [Read more...]

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. 2. To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process, the process must be of a criminal nature; and even then a demand of admittance must first have been refused. The outer door may also be broken open for the purpose of executing a writ of habere facias. 3. An outer door cannot in general be … [Read more...]

Literally, sleeping; hence inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed. Dormant claim. One which is in abeyance. Dormant execution. One which a creditor delivers to the sheriff with directions to levy only, and not to sell until further orders, or until a junior execution is received. Dormant judgment. One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which … [Read more...]

One which is in abeyance. A claim that is not live or being acted upon. … [Read more...]