Lat. In the civil law. To subscribe an accusation. To bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the same punishment which the accused would have suffered had he been proved guilty. Calvin. … [Read more...]

the name that is given to a person who inadvertently crosses onto another person … [Read more...]

In old English law. A customary payment of a penny on entering into and going out of a tenancy (pro exitu de tenura, et pro ingressu.) Spelman. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was appointed, but a general action on the case only. Dig. 2, 1, 4, 7, 2; Id. 19, 4, 5. Innominate contracts, literally, are the "unclassified" contracts of Roman law. They are contracts which are neither … [Read more...]

1. A body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters. The grand jury is sometimes called the "grand inquest." 2. The judicial inquiry made by a jury summoned for the purpose is called an "inquest." The finding of such men, upon an investigation, is also called an "inquest" People v. Coombs, 36 App. Div. 284, 55 N. Y. Supp. 276; Davis v. Bibb County, 116 Ga. 23, 42 … [Read more...]