Liable to punishment whether absolutely or in the exercise of a judicial discretion. … [Read more...]

A purchaser who buys property without knowledge of any other rightful claim to the property. … [Read more...]

In criminal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed by him, or for his omission of a duty enjoined by law. Cruel and unusual punishment. Such punishment as would amount to torture or bar-arity, and any cruel and degrading punishment not … [Read more...]

Absolute; complete; simple; unmixed ; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charity, pure debt, pure obligation, pure plea, pure villenage, as to which see the nouns. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the pnetor Publiclus, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost Its effects were similar to those of our action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, J 298. See Inst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16. … [Read more...]