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...]

A trip. The acting of traveling, usually for an extended time. marine law. The passage of a ship upon the seas, from one port to another, or to several ports. 2. Every voyage must have a terminus a quo and a terminus ad quem. When the insurance is for a limited time, the two extremes of that time are the termini of the vovage insured. When a ship is insured both outward and … [Read more...]