TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Things movable; movable or personal chattels, which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 Bl. Comm. 387. Movables consistFirst, of inanimate things, as goods, plate, money, jewels, implements of war, garments, and the like, or vegetable productions, as the fruit or other parts of a plant … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. … [Read more...]
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The party making a motion. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
L. Fr. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
1. To make an application to a court for a rule or order 2. To propose a resolution, or recommend action in a deliberative body. 3. To pass over; to be transferred; as when the consideration of a contract is said to "move" from one party to the other. 4. To occasion; to contribute to; to tend or lead to. The forewheel of a wagon was said "to move to the death of a man." Sayer, … [Read more...]