Peverelly v. People
New York Supreme Court
This cause came before the Supreme Court on a writ of error to the General Sessions of New-York, which was as follows: The People of the State of New-York to the Court of r General Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the I L SI L city and county of New-York, Greeting: Because, in the record and proceedings, and also in the giving of judgment in a certain cause which was in our said court before you, between The People of the State of New-York and Charles A. Peverelly, who…
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This cause came before the Supreme Court on a writ of error to the General Sessions of New-York, which was as follows: The People of the State of New-York to the Court of r General Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the I L SI L city and county of New-York, Greeting: Because, in the record and proceedings, and also in the giving of judgment in a certain cause which was in our said court before you, between The People of the State of New-York and Charles A. Peverelly, who is impleaded with Theodore L. Peverelly, for an alleged attempt to commit arson in the second degree, as is said,…
1Opinion of the CourtClerke, J.
The principal question in.this case depends upon the legal signification of the term “adjoining.”
The word is derived either immediately or mediately through the French from the Latin language. The Latin word “adjungo,” from which it has sprung, signified “tc *69join to;” but the etymology of a word would be an uncertain guide to its present popular or even technical meaning. Not only words of classical and foreign origin, but those indigenous to the Anglo-Saxon stock, have, in many instances, widely departed from their primitive acceptation, and, in some instances, have been transformed into one…
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