"Luctus" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In Roman law. Mourning. See Annus Luctus
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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A squad car driver was covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant on the police force covering the beat.He stopped the car and asked, "Why, Irish Mike, this wouldn't be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?""That it is, "Irish Mike replied grimly, "ever since I arrested the judge on his way to the masquerade ball.""You mean you pinched his honor?" asked Pat."How was I to know that his convict suit was only a costume?" demanded Mike."Well," mused Pat, "there's a lesson in this somewhere.""That there is," replied Irish Mike...." 'Tis wise never to book a judge by his cover."
In Roman law. A cattle thief. Also called ablgcus, q. v
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. The perfect conveyance or transfer of property from one Roman citizen to another. Thls term gave place …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. An in-crease or addltlon; that whlch lies next to a thiug, and is supplementary and necessary to …
Read the complete definitionLat. In the Roman law. Dally acts; the public registers or journals of the daily proceedings of the senate, assemblies …
Read the complete definitionIn the Roman law. Legal or lawful action; actions of or at law, (legitim# actiones.) Dig. 1, 2, 2, 6
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. one who act-ed for another; one who attended to an-otber's business; a manager or agent. A slnve …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. .A notary or clerk, one who drew the acts or statutes, or who wrote in brief the …
Read the complete definitionLat In the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, …
Read the complete definitionIn the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of hls debtor's person by a magistrate; also the transfer …
Read the complete definitionTo judgment; to court. Ad judicium provocarc; to summon to court; to commence an action; a term of the Roman …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and conld …
Read the complete definitionBegotten in an adulter-ous intercourse. In t^e. Roman, and canon law, adulterine bastards )vere distinguished from such as were the …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. one of foreign birth, who has left his own country and settled elsewhere, and who has not …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. The term in-cluded “all the cognates who trace thelr connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates …
Read the complete definitionAn additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius …
Read the complete definitionLat. An additional name or title; a nickname. A name or title which a man gets by some action or …
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Read the complete definitionA vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn …
Read the complete definitionIn Roman law. A word which the emperors formerly signed at the bottom of thein rescripts and constitutions; under other …
Read the complete definitionThe second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the …
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