Memory in United States
Memory Definition
Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary. Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the understanding, and sometimes its power. When we speak of a retentive memory, we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. Shelf. Lun. Introd. 29, 30. The reputation, good or bad, which a man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized by the relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libellous to throw a shade over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased to avenge the insult offered to the family. 4 Term R. 126; 5 Coke, 125; Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 73, § 1.
Memory in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Memory | Memory in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Memory | Memory in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Memory | Memory in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Memory | Memory in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Memory | Memory in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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| Memory | Memory in the Family Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the IP Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Commercial Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Criminal Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Antritrust Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Bankruptcy Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Constitutional Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Tax Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the and Finance and Banking Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Employment and Labor Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Personal Injury and Tort Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Memory | Memory in the Environmental Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
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Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary. Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the understanding, and sometimes its power. When we speak of a retentive memory, we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. Shelf. Lun. Introd. 29, 30. The reputation, good or bad, which a man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized by the relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libellous to throw a shade over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased to avenge the insult offered to the family. 4 Term R. 126; 5 Coke, 125; Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 73, § 1.
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This definition of Memory is based on The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary. This entry needs to be proofread.