法律英语大全

  • LEGATEE. A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament.2. It is proposed to consider, 1. Who may be a legatee. 2. Under...

  • LEGAL. That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cest...

  • LEGACY, ACCUMULATIVE. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thi...

  • LAWYER. A counsellor; one learned in the law. Vide dttorney.LEGACY. A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. 2 Bl. Com. 512; Bac. Abr. Leg...

  • LAWS OF OLERON, maritime law. A code of sea laws of deserved celebrity. It was originally promulgated by Eleonor, duchess of Guienne, the mother of Ri...

  • LAWS EX POST FACTO. Those which are made to punish actions committed before the existence of such laws, and which had not been declared crimes by prec...

  • LAW, PENAL. One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment.LAW, POSITIVE. Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be co...

  • LAW OF NATURE. The law of nature is that which God, the sovereign of the universe, has prescribed to all men, not by any formal promulgation, but by t...

  • LAW OF NATIONS. The science which teaches the rights subsisting between nations or states, and the obligations correspondent to those rights. Vattel&#...

  • LAW, CRIMINAL. By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defin...