Excessively broad in scope and coverage, usually referring to a statute whose coverage in restricting something exceeds legal or constitutional limits. … [Read more...]

A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of his fee, to judgment in his own court Dn Cange. … [Read more...]

Engl. law. Bailiffs errant, employed by the sheriffs and their deputies, to ride to the furthest places of their counties or hundreds to summon such as they thought good, to attend their county or hundred court. … [Read more...]

torts. An ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the party entitled to possession of any real property corporeal. 2. An ouster can properly be only from real property corporeal, and cannot be committed of anything movable; nor is a mere temporary trespass considered as an Guster. Any continuing act of exclusion from the enjoyment, constitutes an ouster, even by … [Read more...]

L. Fr. Literally, out of the hand. 1. A delivery of lands out of the king's hands by judgment given in favor of the petitioner in a monstrous de droit. 2. A delivery of the ward's lands out of the hands of the guardian, on the former arriving at the proper age, which was twenty-one in males, and sixteen in females. Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24. Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...]