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The compensation agreed upon by a master to be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do work or business for him. In maritime law. The compensation allowed to

An erection of stone, brick, or other material, raised to some height, and in- tended for purposes of security or inclosure. In law, this term occurs in such compounds WALL 1217 WARD

A place adapted to the reception and storage of goods and mer chandise. State v. Huffman, 136 Mo. 58, 37 S. W. 797; Owen v. Boyle, 22 Me. 47; State v. Wilson,

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An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch duringthe night and take care of the property of the inhabitants.

“Natural wear and tear” means deterioration or depreciation invalue by ordinary and reasonable use of the subject-matter. Green v. Kelly, 20 N. J.Law, 048.

This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious personaloffense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for theloss of a vassal, and partly

Technical words in pleading, formerly necessary in making fulldefense to certain actions.

The feast of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and thefirst of the four cross-quarter days of the year. Wharton.

A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issueat the time of the devise, gives him an estate tail; but, if he have issue at the time, B.and

In Saxon law. Half a hide of land, or sixty acres.

All the females of the human species. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13.

A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor.

A writ which lay for a widow, against theexecutor of her deceased husband, to compel the executor to set off to her a third partof the decedent’s personalty, after payment of his

In old English law. A writ which was so called by reason of thewords used in the writ, namely, “Unde idem, A. qui medius est inter O. et prmfatumB.;” that is. A.,

In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty itwas to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ bills.

A common vehicle for the transportation of goods, wares, and merchandise of all descriptions. The term does not include a hackney-coach. Quigley v. Gorham, 5 Cal. 418, 63 Am. Dec. 139.

A written order issued and signed by a magistrate, directed to a peace officer or some other person specially named, and commanding him to arrest the body of a person named in

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A creditor of a municipal corporation to whom is given a municipal warrant for the amount of his claim, because there are no funds in hand to pav it. Johnson v. New