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In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast. A payment for a beast The payment or forfeiture of a beast. A penalty for taking away cattle. Spelman.

An Implied or presumptive agency, which exists where one, either intentionally or from want of ordinary care, induces another to believe that a third person is his agent, though he never in

In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A species of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the ‘land, and compels the rightful owner to

In English law. A process by which a defendant or person in contempt on a civil or criminal process was declared an outlaw. If for treason or felony, it amounted to conviction

Proved guilty or convicted. Blount

In English law. Persons who carried wool, etc., to the sea-side by uight, in order that it might be shipped off contrary to law. Jacob.

In old English law. A funeral solemnity, or office for the dead. Cowell. The anniversary of a person’s death ; the anniversary office. Cro. Jac. 51.

In Spanish law. Work. Obras, works or trades; those which men carry on in houses or covered places. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3,

This is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one’s incorporeal hereditament, e. y., his right to an easement, or profit d prendre; au alter- native word being “disturbance.” Ou

Lat. In old English law. A writ that lay for one who was ejected out of his land or tenement in time of war. Cowell.

A Scotch expression, closely translated from the Latin “de novo,” (q. v.)