SCINTILLA JURIS

estates; A spark of right. A legal fiction, resorted to for the purpose of enabling feoffees to uses to support contingent uses when they come into existence, thereby to enable the statutes of uses, 27 Henry VIII., to execute them. 4 Kent's Com. 238, et seq., and the authorities there cited, for the learning upon this subject. … [Read more...] about SCINTILLA JURIS

Latin for spark. The smallest, minute trace. A miniature particle, e.g. the presence of a "scintilla of evidence." Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Lat. A spark; a remaining particle; the least particle. Scintilla Juris. In real property law. A spark of right or interest. By this figurative expression was denoted the small particle of interest which, by a fiction … [Read more...] about SCINTILLA

A Latin adverb, signifying that is to say; to wit; namely. 2. It is a clause to usher in the sentence of another, to particularize that which was too general before, distribute what was too gross, or to explain what was doubtful and obscure. It neither increases nor diminish the premises or habendum, for it gives nothing of itself; it may make a restriction when the preceding … [Read more...] about SCILICET

knowingly. 2. A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, as he is ignorant or not ignorant of certain facts. He may pass a counterfeit coin, when he is ignorant of its being counterfeit, and is guilty of no offence; but if he knew the coin to be counterfeit, which is called the scienter, he is guilty of passing counterfeit money. A man who keeps an animal which … [Read more...] about SCIENTER

Latin meaning Knowingly. … [Read more...] about SCIENS