What is CHARGE? Definition of CHARGE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
v. To impose a burden, duty, obligation, or lien; to create a claim against property; to claim; to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. To impose a tax, duty, or trust. Ex parte Horn, D.C.Wash., 292 F. 455, 457. In commercial transactions, to bill or invoice. George M. Jones Co. v. Canadian Nat. Ry. Co., D. C.Mich., 14 F.2d 852, 855.
A jury is "charged" with duty of trying prisoner (or, as otherwise expressed, with his fate or his "deliverance") as soon as they are impaneled and sworn ; this is a different matter from "charging" the jury in the sense of giving them instructions. Tomasson v. State, 112 Tenn. 596, 79 S. W. 803. And see Keith v. Commonwealth, 197 Ky. 362, 247 S. W. 42, 44.
To load, as a firearm. People v. Limeberry, 298 Ill. 355, 131 N.E. 691, 696.
n. An incumbrance, lien, or claim; a burden or load; an obligation or duty; a liability; an accusation. Darling v. Rogers, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 491. Custody. Randazzo v. U. S., C.C.A.Mo., 300 F. 794, 797; In re Boulware's Will, 258 N.Y.S. 522, 144 Misc. 235. Price. Aiken Mills v. United States, D.C.S.C., 53 F.Supp. 524, 526. Rate. Borough of Mechanicsburg v. Valley Rys., 109 Pa. Super. 48, 165 A. 541, 542.
Conversion' of electrical energy into chemical energy within a cell or storage battery. Elliott Works v. Frisk, D.C.Iowa, 58 F.2d 820, 822.
In Common law Practice
The final address by judge to jury before verdict, in which he sums up the case, and instructs jury as to the rules of law which apply to its various issues, and which they must observe. The term also applies to the address of court to grand jury, in which the latter are instructed as to their duties.
In Contracts
An obligation. Com.Dig. "Rent," c. 6; 2 Ball & B. 223; Termes de la Ley. An undertaking to keep the custody of another person's goods. State v. Clark, 86 Me. 194, 29 A. 984.
In Criminal Law
An accusation or oral charge. People v. Ross, 235 Mich. 433, 209 N.W. 663, 666; Haggard v. First Nat. Bank of Mandan, 72 N.D. 434, 8 N.W.2d 5, 9. A formal complaint, information, or indictment. People v. Lepori, 35 Cal.App. 60, 169 P. 692, 694. A count. State v. Thornton, 142 La. 797, 77 So. 634, 636; State v. Pucketty, 39 N.M. 511, 50 P.2d 964, 965. Accused or arraigned. Code Cr.Proc. § 57. People v. Hickox, 10 N.Y.S.2d 318, 320, 170 Misc. 354.
In Equity Pleading
An allegation in the bill of matters which disprove or avoid a defense which it is alleged the defendant is supposed to pretend or intend to set up. Story, Eq.P1. § 31; Cooper, Eq.P1. 11; 1 Dan.Ch.Pr. 372, 1883, n.; 11 Ves.Ch. 574.
In Equity Practice
A written statement presented to a master in chancery by a party of the items with which the opposite party should be debited or should account for, or of the claim of the party making it. A charge may embrace the whole liabilities of the accounting party. Hoff.Mast. 36.
In Scotch Law
The command of the king's letters to perform some act; as a charge to enter heir. Also a messenger's execution, requiring a person to obey the order of the king's letters; as a charge on letters of horning, or a charge against a superior. Bell.
In the Law of Wills
A responsibility or liability imposed by the testator upon a devisee personally, or upon the land devised. Potter v. Gardner, 12 Wheat. 498, 6 L. Ed. 706; Boal v. Metropolitan Museum of Art of City of New York, C.C.A.N.Y., 298 F. 894, 908. A pecuniary burden. In re Clark's Will, 37 N.Y.S.2d 522, 523, 179 Misc. 75. A devise for beneficial enjoyment of devisee subject to payment of a sum of money or performance of a particular duty. Howells State Bank v. Pont, 113 Neb. 181, 202 N.W. 457, 459.
General Charge
The charge or instruction of the court to the jury upon the case, as a whole, or upon its general features and characteristics.
Public Charge
A person whom it is necessary to support at public expense by reason of poverty, insanity and poverty, disease and poverty, or idiocy and poverty. Wallis v. U. S., ex rel. Mannara, C.C.A.N.Y., 273 F. 509, 511. As used in Immigration Act Feb. 5, 1917, § 19, 8 U.S.C.A. § 155, one who produces a money charge on, or an expense to, the public for support and care. Ex parte Kichmiriantz, D.C.Cal., 283 F. 697, 698. As so used, the term is not limited to paupers or those liable to become such, but includes those who will not undertake honest pursuits, or who are likely to become periodically the inmates of prisons. Ex parte Horn, D.C. Wash., 292 F. 455, 457. But see Ng Fung Ho v. White, C.C.A.Cal., 266 F. 765, 769.
Special Charge
A charge or instruction given by the court to the jury, upon some particular point or question involved in the case, and usually in response to counsel's request for such instruction.
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