Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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confer new powers; "remedial" when their effect is to provide relief or reform abuses; "penal" when they impose punishment, pe cuniary or corporal, for a violation of their provisions. 5. In old English jurisprudence, "law" is used to signify an oath, or the privilege of being sworn; as in the phrases "to wage one's law," "to lose one's law." As to the different kinds of law, or law re garded in its different aspects, see ADJECTIVE LAW; ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; CONSTITU TIONAL LAW; CRIMINAL LAW; INTERNA TIONAL LAW; LAW OF NATIONS; LAW OF NATURE; LAW-MERCHANT; MUNICIPAL LAW; POSITIVE LAW; PRIVATE LAW; PUB LIC LAW; RETROSPECTIVE LAW; SUBSTAN TIVE LAW. LAW AGENTS. Solicitors practicing in the Scotch courts. Law always construeth things to the best. Wing. Max. p. 720, max. 193. LAW ARBITRARY. Opposed to im mutable, a law not founded in the nature of things, but imposed by the mere will of the legislature. LAW BURROWS. In Scotch law. Se curity for the peaceable behavior of a party; security to keep the peace. Properly, a pro cess for obtaining such security. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 198. LAW CHARGES. This phrase is used, under the Louisiana Civil Code, to signify costs incurred in court in the prosecution of a suit, to be paid by the party cast. 17 La. 206; 11 Rob. (La.) 28. Law construeth every act to be lawful, when it standeth indifferent whether it should be lawful or not. Wing. Max. p. 722, max. 194; Finch, Law, b. 1, c 3, n. 76. Law construeth things according to common possibility or intendment. Wing. Max. p. 705, max. 189. Law [the law] construeth things with equity and moderation. Wing. Max. p. 685, max. 183; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 74. LAW COURT OF APPEALS. In American law. An appellate tribunal, for merly existing in the state of South Carolina, for hearing appeals from the courts of law. LAW DAY. The day prescribed in a bond, mortgage, or defeasible deed for pay ment of the debt secured thereby, or, in de fault of payment, the forfeiture of the prop

erty mortgaged. But this does not now oc cur until foreclosure. In old English law. Law day or lage day denoted a day of open court; especially the courts of a county or hundred. Law disfavoreth impossibilities. Wing. Max. p. 606, max. 155. Law disfavoreth improbabilities. Wing. Max. p. 620, max. 161. Law [the law] favoreth oharity. Wing. Max. p. 497, max. 135. Law favoreth common right. Wing. Max. p. 547, max. 144. Law favoreth diligence, and therefore hateth folly and negligence. Wing. Max. p. 665, max. 172; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 70. Law favoreth honor and order. Wing. Max. p. 739, max. 199. Law favoreth justice and right. Wing. Max. p. 502, max. 141. Law favoreth life, liberty, and dower. 4 Bacon's Works, 345. Law favoreth mutual recompense. Wing. Max. p. 411, max. 108; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 42. Law [the law] favoreth possession, where the right is equal. Wing. Max. p. 375, max. 98; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 36. Law favoreth public commerce. Wing. Max. p. 738, max. 198. Law favoreth public quiet. Wing. Max. p. 742, max. 200; Finch, Law, b. 1, c 3, no. 54. Law favoreth speeding of men's causes. Wing. Max. p. 673, max. 175. Law [the law] favoreth things for the commonwealth, [common weal.] Wing. Max. p. 729, max. 197; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 53. Law favoreth truth, faith, and cer tainty. Wing. Max. p. 604, max. 154. LAW FRENCH. The Norman French language, introduced into England by Will iam the Conqueror, and which, for several centuries, was, in an emphatic sense, the language of the English law t being that in which the proceedings of the courts and of parliament were carried on, and in which many of the ancient statutes, reports, abridg

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