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In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 1, c. 1, i 3, note. … [Read more...] about LETRADO

The old English and Scotch translation of "Iaesa majestas," or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6. … [Read more...] about LESE MAJESTY

1. One of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet and used in written language as the representatives of sounds or articulations of the human organs of speech. Several of the letters of the English alphabet have a special significance in Jurisprudence, as abbreviations and otherwise, or are employed as numerals. 2. A dispatch or epistle; a written or printed … [Read more...] about LETTER

contracts. In the civil law this term is used to signify the injury suffered. Fr. Damage; Injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in contracts. Poth. Obi., no. 33. In medical jurisprudence. Any change … [Read more...] about LESION

commerce. A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader to his correspondents. 2. After notice to the plaintiff to produce a letter which he admitted to have received from the defendant, it was held that an entry by a deceased clerk, in a letter book professing to be a copy of a letter from the defendant to the plaintiff of the same date, was … [Read more...] about LETTER BOOK