A kind of commission from a judge authorizing and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction to examine a witness. A letter rogatory is an instrument sent in the name and by the authority of a judge or court to another, requesting the latter to cause to be examined, upon interrogatories filed in a cause depending before the former, a witness who is within the jurisdiction of … [Read more...]

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. … [Read more...]

contracts. An open or sealed letter, from a merchant in one place, directed to another, in another place or country, requiring him that if a person therein named, or the bearer of the letter, shall have occasion to buy commodities, or to want money to any particular or unlimited amount, either to procure the same, or to pass his promise, bill, or other engagement for it, the … [Read more...]

This is an instrument in writing, granted by the judge or officer having jurisdiction of the probate of wills, under his hand and official seal, making known that on the day of the date of the said letters, the last will of the testator, (naming him,) was duly proved before him; that the testator left goods, by reason, whereof, and the probate of the said will, he certifies … [Read more...]

Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition(verb) - To raise; execute; exact; collect; gather; take up; seize. Thus, to levy (raise or collect) a tax; to levy (raise or set up) a nuisance; to levy (acknowledge) a fine; to. levy (inaugurate) war; to levy an execution, i.e., to levy or collect a sum of money on an execution. In reference to taxation, the word "levy" is used in … [Read more...]