The instruments of writing and written evidences which the owner of lands, possessions, or inheritances has, by which he is enabled to defend the title of his estate. Termes de […]

A particular piece of property or other asset has proven ownership by these specific types of documents. Stock or bond certificates, a title to a car, a deed to a […]

In international law and United States statutes, this term Includes not only ordnance, ammunition, and other material directly useful In the conduct of a war, but also whatever may contribute […]

An Islamic financial transaction . Having property or an asset to sell, the owner will rent or lease it at a fully disclosed rate of profit to an interested buyer. […]

A toll formerly levied in England for repairing or building public walls.

The crime committed where a person of sound mind and discretion (that is, of sufficient age to form and execute a criminal design and not legally “insane”) kills any human […]

the term that describes the killing of a person that has been planned and carried out with malice.

term that is given to a killing of a person that was not premeditated but came from a desire to inflict harm.

this is the term that describes a murder committed while a felony is committed.

In old English law . The killing of a man in a secret manner.

Lat. The service of work and labor done by inhabitants and adjoining tenants in building or repairing the walls of a city or castle; their personal service was commuted into […]

In old Scotch law . Mur- ther or murder. Skene.

A building or institution for the cultivation of science or the exhibition of curiosities or works of art. The term “museum” embraces not only collections of curiosities for the entertain- […]

Instead of having a lender-debtor relationship , this specific type of Islamic financial arrangement is for building a business partnership . Each party takes part in the new business’s profit […]

In old English law . A moss or marsh ground, or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.

To assemble together troops and their arms, whether for inspection , drill, or service in the field. To take recruits into the service in the army and inscribe their names […]

A name given to the Issue of an Indian and a negro. Miller v. Dawson, Dud. (S. C.) 174.

A kennel of hounds; one of the mortuaries to which the crown was entitled at a bishop’s or abbot’s decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 426.

Causes permanent genetic change, a mutation, in a cell due to genetic alterations or gene loss or chromosome loss. Cancer development is just one ending in an event-sequence in the […]

Lat In the civil law . Change of name. Cod. 9, 25.

In French law . This term is synonymous with “change,” and is especially applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission […]

In practice . An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action , […]

Lat With tlie necessary changes In points of detail.

Speechless; dumb; that cannot or will not speak. In English criminal law , a prisoner is said to stand mute when, being arraigned for treason or felony, he either makes […]

As applied to written documents, such as wills, court records, and the like, this term means rendering the. document imperfect by the subtraction from it of some essential part, as, […]