TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Trash or garbage or other solid waste that has been disposed of improperly and usually carelessly within a public area, for example, an empty cigarette box on the street. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corresponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But "riparian" is also used co extensively with "littoral." Commonwealth r. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 94. See Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 426, 15 L. Ed. 118. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Latin meaning To litigate; to carry on a suit either as plaintiff or defendant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Lat. In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1. … [Read more...]