An investment that passes through for a larger investment plan.

A payment for services of a contractor or conductor. It records as income by the consultant and an expense of the paying company.

In old English law . A thief caught while escaping with the stolen goods in his possession. Spelman.

The name given to certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the twelfth century to the middle of the sixteenth, usurping many of the functions of […]

Fictitious; pretended; supposititious; simulated.

A person who joins in a crime in order to apprehend the people doing the crime. He is undercover.

See false action .

A term given to the issue presented in equity court that does not have the jurisdiction to settle. It should be heard in court of common law.

In Saxon law. One bound for another by oath; a sworn brother. A friend bound in the decennary for the good behavior of another. One who took the place of […]

A field; in composition , wild. Blount.

L. Fr. Faithful. See FEAL.

See SODOMY.

A companion; one with whom we consort; one joined with another in some legal status or relation; a member of a college or corporate body.

A rule used as a defense before workers compensation. The worker is blamed for the injury not the employer.

A co-heir; partner of the same inheritance .

“The decided weight of authority is to the effect that all who serve the same master, work under the same control, derive authority and compensation from the same common source, […]

A felon of himself; a suicide or murderer of himself. One who deliberately and intentionally puts an end to his own life, or who commits some unlawful or malicious act […]

One who has committed felony; one convicted of felony.

Felony. The act or offense by which a vassal forfeited his fee. Spelman ; Calvin. Per feloniam, with a criminal intention. Co. Litt. 391. Felonia, ex vi termini significat quodlibet […]

Felonia, ex vi termini significat quodlibet capitale crimen felleo animo perpetratnm. Co. Litt. 391. Felony, by force of the term, signifies any capital crime perpetrated with a malignant mind. Felonia […]

Malignant; malicious; done with intent to commit a crime; having thegrade or quality of a felony. People v. Moore, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 93; Aikman v. Com., 18 S.W. 938, […]

the term given to a major attack on a person that will see the person who did the assault sentenced to jail time.

This means to murder a person with no excuse or justification . It includes suicide.

With a felonious intent; with the intention of committing a crime. Anindispensable word in modern indictments for felony, as felon ice was in the Latinforms. 4 Bl. Comm. 307; State […]

In English law . This term meant originally the state of having forfeited lands and goods to the crown upon conviction for certain offenses, and then, by transition,any offense upon […]