To cause harm or damage upon. … [Read more...]

One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 8. … [Read more...]

Authority, credit, ascendance. 2. Influence is proper or improper. Proper influence is that which one person gains over another by acts of kindness and, attention, and by correct conduct. 3 Serg. & Rawle, 269. Improper influence is that dominion acquired by any person over a mind of sanity for general purposes, and of sufficient soundness and discretion to regulate his … [Read more...]

This term may denote any court subordinate to the chief appellate tribunal in the particular judicial system; but it is commonly used as the designation of a court of special, limited, or statutory jurisdiction, whose record must show the existence and attaching of jurisdiction in any given case, in order to give presumptive validity to its judgment See Ex parte Cuddy, 131 U. … [Read more...]

Lacking formality, casual, not drafted or executed in a manner that complies with accepted legal form. Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up. … [Read more...]