In the law relating to nuisances and similar matters, this term means noxious, causing annoyance, discomfort, or painful or disagreeable sensations. As occasionally used in criminal law and statutes, an "offensive weapon" is primarily one. meant and adapted for attack and the infliction of injury, but practically the term includes anything that would come within the description … [Read more...]

civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official. 2. In the canon law, the person to whom the bishop generally commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction, bears this name. … [Read more...]

See collateral estoppel, it is the legal doctrine preventing a defendant from re-litigating an issue after it has been decided in a court of law (as opposed to an appeal of the same issue.) … [Read more...]

(adj.) Pertaining to an office; invested with the character of an officer; proceeding from, sanctioned by, or done by, an officer. Demi-official. Partly official or authorized. Having color of official right-Official act. One done by an officer in his official capacity under color and by virtue of his office. Turner v. Sisson, 137 Mass. 192; Lam mon v. Feusire, 111 U. S. 17, 4 … [Read more...]

(A) contracts. A proposition to do a thing. 2. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfillment of the contract, and this right when not expressed, is always implied. 3. By virtue of his natural liberty, a man may change his will at any time, if it is not to the injury of another; he may, therefore, revoke or recall his offers, at any time before … [Read more...]