Under one's own will, to leave another person without cause and without their consent to leave. Usually in reference to abandonment of a responsibility such as abandoning a spouse or a child. … [Read more...]

A witness willing to testify in court without the need for a subpoena compelling the witness to appear. … [Read more...]

In Scotch practice. An emphatic or essential word. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 280. … [Read more...]

in the practice of the court of chancery was an answer put in by a defendant when the plaintiff had filed no interrogatories which required to be answered. … [Read more...]

Latin: Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that is, the last will and testament of a decedent, more properly called testamentum. Voluntas donatoris in charta doni sui manifesto ezpressa observetur. Co. Litt 21. The will of the … [Read more...]