An adverse event, calamity, or evil fortune, arising by accident, (or without the will or concurrence of him who suffers from it,) and not to be foreseen or guarded against by care or prudence. See 20 Q. B. Div. 816. In its application to the law of homicide, this term always involves the further idea that the person causing the death is not at the time engaged in any unlawful … [Read more...]

In practice. An improper continuance; want of proper form in a continuance; the same with "discontinuance." Cowell. … [Read more...]

Hebrew term for a lesson that is repeated and refers to the basic Jewish Rabbinical commentary on the Torah (the Old Testament) and is the first part of the Talmud. It was codified and completed circa 500 CE … [Read more...]

In modern law and parlance: a person who behaves in a way that is morally wrong, badly, viciously or in a criminal manner. "That group of miscreants vandalized that old woman's car and enjoy scaring children that play in the playground." In old English law. An apostate; an unbeliever; one who totally renounced Christianity. … [Read more...]

(A) Refers to a wrongful joinder, such as joining parties who have adverse positions or joining in a case other parties whose case in issue deals with a completely different transaction or event than the case at bar. (B) pleading. Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts, consists in joining, in different counts in one declaration, several demands, which the law does not … [Read more...]