Latin, meaning He who has not the power of alienating is under the necessity of retaining. … [Read more...]

Living; alive. "Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not." Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6. … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning He who does not disapprove, approves. … [Read more...]

med. jurisp. The motion of the foetus, when felt by the mother, is called quickening, and the mother is then said to be quick with child. 1 Beck's Med. Jurisp. 172; 1 Russ. on Cr. 553. 2. This happens at different periods of pregnancy in different women, and in different circumstances, but most usually about the fifteenth or sixteenth week after conception. 3 Camp. Rep. 97. 3. … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning He who does not prevent what he is able to prevent, is considered as committing the thing. … [Read more...]