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  • Quod Semel Meum Est Amplius Meum Esse Non Potest

    Definition of Quod Semel Meum Est Amplius Meum Esse Non Potest What is once mine cannot be more fully mine Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Quod Semel Meum Est Amplius Meum Esse Non Potest in the Dictionaries, Quod Semel Meum Est Amplius Meum Esse […]

  • Porter V. Freudenberg

    Definition of Porter V. Freudenberg ([1915] 1 K. B. 857). Held, that an alien enemy is a person, of whatever nationality, who voluntarily resides or carries on business in enemy territory, or in territory in enemy occupation. An alien enemy is not entitled to sue, but may be sued, and can then […]

  • Positive Law

    Definition of Positive Law That part of law which consists of rules imposed by a sovereign on his subjects : law proper as opposed to moral law, and so on (Austin). See Law Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Positive Law in the Dictionaries, Positive […]

  • Poor Law Union

    Definition of Poor Law Union Any parish or union of parishes for which there is a separate board of guardians (q.v.). (Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 16.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Poor Law Union in the Dictionaries, Poor Law Union in our […]

  • Outlaw

    Definition of Outlaw A person who is put out of the protection of the law by judgment of outlawry Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Outlaw in the Dictionaries, Outlaw in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

  • Outlawry

    Definition of Outlawry Where an indictment has been found against a person and summary process proves ineffectual to compel him to appear, process of outlawry may be issued, though in practice this is never done. See Process Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Oleron, Laws Of

    Definition of Oleron, Laws Of A collection of customs of the sea compiled in the twelfth century at Oleron, an island off the west coast of France Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Oleron, Laws Of in the Dictionaries, Oleron, Laws Of in our legal […]

  • Lord Lieutenant

    Definition of Lord Lieutenant The office of lieutenants of counties was created about the reign of Henry VIII, for the purpose of having a representative of the Crown in each county, to keep it in military order. For this purpose he had the power of raising militia.The Lord Lieutenant […]

  • Law Of Nations

    Definition of Law Of Nations International law or public international law. It is a literal translation of the Latin phrase jus gentium, which meant, however, those rules of law which are common to all civilised nations Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Law Of Nature

    Definition of Law Of Nature The jus naturale. The Roman conception of a hypothetical law of a bygone state of nature or golden age, and believed to exist in part in all then existing bodies of law ; to be ascertained by segregating the principles common to many or all of them, i. e., the…