Category: C

2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.

an offense that is categorised by a person’s failing to perform an act that is required.

A term used in heraldry; It signifies the devices set over a coat of arms.

the name given to a crime that is committed under circumstances that involves the compelling emotion of the perpetrator.

In medical jurisprudence. A form of Imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term is applied to similar states occurring elsewhere.

In the civil law. The crime of falsifying; which might be committed either by writing, as by the forgery of a will or other instrument; by words, as by bearing false witness, or perjury; and by acts, as by counterfeiting or adulterating the public money, dealing with false weights and measures, counterfeiting seals, and other fraudulent and deceitful practices. Dig. 48, 10; Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 12, nn. 50-50. In Scotch law. It has been defined: ÒA fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth, to the prejudice of another.Ó Ersk. Inst 4, 4, 00. At common law. Any crime which may injuriously affect the administration of justice, by the introduction of falsehood and fraud. 1 Greenl. Ev.

In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation.

In the civil law. A certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether he would take the inheritance or not Calvin.

The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship’s company, exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the master and all other officers. See U. S. v. Winn, 3 Sumn. 209, 28 Fed. Cas. 733; Millaudon v. Martin, 6 Rob. (La.) 540; U. S. v. Huff (C. C.) 13 Fed. 630.

In maritime law. A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship’s papers. This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. S.