A group, formed by institutions that have a financial CLAIM on a company that has filed for BANKRUPTCY, which coordinates actions in order to maximize value in LIQUIDATION or approve […]

In English practice. A bill In equity, filed by one or more creditors, for an account of the assets of a decedent , and a legal settlement and distribution of […]

Under the head of “creditors” are included, not alone those who have lent mon ey, but all to whom from any cause a debt is owing. Dig. 50, 16, 11.

A female creditor.

This term is given to the money or obligations that are due.

In maritime law . Such little inlets of the sea, whether within the precinct or extent of a port or without, as are narrow passages, and have shore on either […]

A CORPORATE FINANCE transaction where an investor group or acquiring company gradually purchases the COMMON STOCK of a target company. Once a specified block has been accumulated a formal TENDER […]

The increase of a county. The sheriffs of counties anciently answered In their accounts for the Improvement of the king’s rents, above the visconticl rents, under this title.

In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it

Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man : such light as exists immediately before the rising […]

2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.

A term used in heraldry; It signifies the devices set over a coat of arms.

In medical jurisprudence . A form of Imperfect or arrested mental development , which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland […]

In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation.

In the civil law . A certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether he would take the inheritance or not Calvin.

The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship’s company, exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the […]

In maritime law . A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship’s papers . This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. […]

An officer of a court, who makes proclamations. His principal duties are to announce the opening of the court and its adjournment and the fact that certain special matters are […]

Rehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the justice before whom the parties appeared […]

An abbreviation for ” criminal conversation ,” of very frequent use, denoting adultery. Gibson v. Cincinnati Enquirer. 10 Fed. Cas. 311.

A crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due […]

The offense of buggery or I sodomy. State v. Vicknair, 52 La. Ann. 1921, 28 South. 273; busman v. Veal. 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331 ; People v. […]

These are crimes that are committed and are punishable under common law and not crimes that have been created by statutes.

an unlawful act that is nearly the same as a felony but doesn’t fall into any felony category.

This the term that describes a major crime like treason or felony where a severe term of jail may be imposed.