Personal injury law where the victim slips on something on the floor that was the result of negligence that leads to an injury and subsequent lawsuit against the owner of the premises, e.g. falling on spilled milk left on the floor in a grocery store. … [Read more...]

The act with intent to defraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submitting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 U. S. St at Large, 186 (U. 8. Comp. St 1901, p. 2018). "The word is a … [Read more...]

A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton. … [Read more...]

The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed Indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. Wharton. … [Read more...]

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 565 8 N. W. 443. … [Read more...]