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Lat. In the civil law. Intestate ; without a will. Calvin.

L. Lat. To drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage or pasture.

Vain; inadequate to its purpose; not of binding force or legal efficacy; lacking in authority or obligation. Ilood v. Perry, 75 Ga. 312; State v. Casteel, 110 Ind. 174, 11 N. E.

See EBBOB.

he is receiving relief, notwithstanding that he has not acquired a settlement there. 3 Steph. Comm. GO.

In English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are

The state of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same. See 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 343; 2 Hill, Abr. 421. The word

A deed to which two or more persons are parties, and in which these enter into reciprocal and corresponding grants or obligations towards each other; whereas a deed-poll is properly one in

Charged in an indictment with a criminal offense. See INDICTMENT.

To write a name on tie back of a paper or document Bills of exchange and promissory notes are indorsed by a party’s writing his name on the back. Hart- well v.

Disqualification or legal incapacity to be elected to an ollice. Thus, an alien or naturalized citizen is ineligible to be elected president of the United States. Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 302,

in medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or

In the law of evidence. Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres.

During madness; while in a state of insanity. Bract fol. 196.

(1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman.

In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to pro- ceed further in a cause pending before him. In this sense it is closely analogous

Bestoration to the protection of law. Bestoration from a condition of outlawry

Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incrim- inatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.

An authority given to some official person to institute an inquiry concerning the crown’s interests.

Evil advice or counsel. Cowell.