日期：2008-03-08 CAPTURE , war. The taking of property by one belligerent from another. 2. To make a good capture of a ship, it must be subdued and taken by an enemy in open war, or by way of reprisals, or by a pirate, and with intent to deprive the owner of it. 3.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CAPTATION , French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it. It is generally taken in a bad sense. 2. Captation takes place by those demonstrations of attachment and friendship, by those assid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CAPITATION . A poll tax; an imposition which is yearly laid on each person according to his estate and ability. 2. The Constitution of the United States provides that no capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the cen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CAPITAL , political economy, commerce. In political economy, it is that portion of the produce of a country, which may be made directly available either to support the human species or to the facilitating of production. 2. In commerce, as applied to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CAPIAS PRO FINE , practice, crim. law. The name of a writ which issues against a defendant who has been fined, and who does not discharge it according to the judgment. This writ commands the sheriff to arrest the defendant and commit him to prison,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CAPIAS AD COMPUTANDUM , practice. A writ issued in the action of account render, upon the judgment quod computet, when the defendant refuses to appear, in his proper person, before the auditors, and enter into his account. According to the ancient p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CANONIST . One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law. CANNON SHOT , war. The distance which a cannon will throw a ball. 2. The whole space of the sea, within cannon shot of the coast, is considered as making a part of the territory; and for tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CALLING THE PLAINTIFF , practice. When a plaintiff perceives that he has not given evidence to maintain his issue, and intends to become nonsuited, he withdraws himself, when the cryer is ordered to call the plaintiff, and on his failing to appear,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 CABALLERIA , Spanish law. A measure of land, which is different in different provinces. Diccionario por la Real Academia. In those parts of the United States, which formerly belonged to Spain, the caballeria is a lot of one hundred feet front and tw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BY ESTIMATION , contracts. In sales of land it not unfrequently occurs that the property is said to contain a certain number of acres, by estimation, or so many acres, more or less. When these expressions are used, if the land fall short by a small... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BURGOMASTER . In Germany this is, the title by which an officer who performs the duties of a mayor is, called. BURIAL . The act of interring the dead. 2. No burial is lawful unless made in conformity with the local regulations; an when a dead body h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BUOY . A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The act of Congress, approved the 28th September, 1850, enacts, that all buoys along the coast,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BROTHER-IN-LAW , domestic relat. The brother of a wife, or the hushand of a sister. There is no relationship, in the former case, between the hushand and the brother-in-law, nor in the latter, between the brother and the hushand of the sister; there... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BROCAGE , contracts. The wages or commissions of a broker his occupation is also sometimes called brocage. This word is also spelled brokerage. BROKERAGE , contracts. The trade or occupation of a broker; the commissions paid to a broker for his serv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BRIEF , eccl. law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, (q. v.) which are scaled with lead. They are so called, because they usually are short compendious writings. Ayl. Pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BRIBE , crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BREVE TESTATUM , feudal law. A declaration by a superior lord to his vassal, made in the presence of the pares curias, by which he gave his consent to the grant of land, was so called. Ersk. Inst. B. 2, tit. 3, s. 17. This was made in writing, and h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BREAKING . Parting or dividing by force and violence a solid substance, or piercing, penetrating, or bursting through the same. 2. In cases of burglary and house-breaking, the removal, of any part of the house, or of the fastenings provided to secur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BREACH OF THE PEACE . A violation of public order; the offence of disturbing the public peace. One guilty of this offence may be held to bail for his good behaviour. An act of public indecorum is also a breach of the peace. The remedy for this offen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-08 BOUNTY . A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by' the government, to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do to the public. As bounty upon the culture of silk; the bounty given to an enlisted soldier; and the l... 阅读全文>>