One who commits embezzlement. … [Read more...]

Also known as a domestic relations protective order, this is a court order to protect a person from harm or harassment, usually issued by police to prevent domestic violence when court is not in session. It only lasts a short period of time, after which the victim must request form a court a TRO or temporary restraining order to obtain extended protection. … [Read more...]

In the Roman law. Alterations, modifications, and additions to the writings of the older jurists, selected to make up the body of the Pandects, introduced by Tribonian and his associates who constituted the commission appointed for that purpose, with a view to harmonize contradictions, exscind obsolete matter, and make the whole conform to the law as understood in Justinian's … [Read more...]

The epoch or date whence any people begin to compute their time. … [Read more...]

The vegetable chattels called "emblements" are the corn and other growth of the earth which are produced annually, not spontaneously, but by labor and industry, and thence are called "fructus industriales" Reiff v. Reiff, 64 Pa. 137. The growing crops of those vegetable productions of the soil which are annually produced by the labor of the cultivator. They are deemed personal … [Read more...]