To attach: jeopardy attaches after a capital case has been adjudicated, it cannot be retried; to annex, bind, fasten, as in attaching evidence to the complaint; to seize under legal authority. Black's Law Dictionary is somewhere online, and definitions can be found at law libraries.
The root "lex-" is derived from Latin, meaning "law" or "word." Words containing this root often relate to legal matters, such as "lexicon" meaning dictionary or vocabulary, or "lexicography" meaning the practice of compiling dictionaries.
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Yes. Real estate and real property are synonymous meaning land and and any improvements made to the land such as anything growing on it, permanently attached to or erected on it. Included is the bundle of rights attached to the property. Black's Law Dictionary lists real property as the primary term. Another term is realty. The legal meaning in the United States is based on English Common Law.
I cannot find the word "elect" in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Code of Canon Law, or Modern Catholic Dictionary, so I am assuming that the word has no special assigned meaning in the Catholic Church.
A word that means to pass a bill into law is "enact".
Black's Law Dictionary was created in 1891.
No. Dictionary definitions describe the accepted and general uses of the word. They do not tell you that you cannot use it for other things, and indeed that is what inevitably happens over time with any language. For example, a dictionary printed sixty years ago would never define the word "gay" as "homosexual"; any modern dictionary which did not include that meaning would be inaccurate.
The word jurisdiction (authority) is from the Latin juris(jura, plural of jus) meaning "law".
what is the word meaning "thing", in law
Legal or judicial.
Black's Law is Black's Law Dictionary. It is the most used law dictionary in America and was created by Henry Campbell Black.
Unless the questioner has mis-spelled the word - there is no such word or anything close to it listed in any legal dictionary that I have researched.