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An agreement or compact. Du Cange.

In English law. The total renunciation of Christianity, by embracing either a false religion or no religion at all. This offense can only take place in such as have once professed the

In old English law the apparura were furniture, implements, tackie, or apparel. Carucarum, apparura, plow- tackle. Cowell.

A thing annexed to or belonging to another thing and passing with it; a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may

In old English law. The revenue, profit, or emolument which a thing brings to the owner. Commonly applied to a corody or pension. Blount.

The act of selecting, devoting, or setting apart land for a particular use or purpose, as where land is appropriated for public buildings, military reservations, or other public uses. McSorley. v. Hill.

Among the acts; among the recorded proceedings. In the civil law, this phrase is applied to appeals taken orally, in the presence of the judge, at the time of judgment or sentence.

They plowed. A term of feudal law, applied to those who held by the tenure of plowing and tilling the lord’s lands within the manor. Cowell.

This takes place where a merchant pays his debts in one country by a bill of exchange upon another.

A division of a diocese, and the circuit of an archdeacon’s jurisdiction.

An abbreviation of arguendo.

All argument from authority is the strongest in the law. “The book cases are the best proof of what the law is.” Co. Litt. 254a.

In the civil law. Armed force. Dig. 43, 16, 3; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 4.

In Spanish law. The donation which the husband makes to his wife, by reason or on account of marriage, and in consideration of the dote, or portion, which he receives from her.

Fr. A Judgment, sentence, or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction. The term is derived from the French law, and is used in Canada and Louisiana. Saisie arrft is an attachment

A principle put in practice and applied to some art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. Earle v. Sawyer, 4 Mason, 1, Fed. Cas. No. 4,247. See Act Cong. July 8, 1870.

A complaint made or exhibited to a court by a person who makes oath that he is in fear of death or bodily harm from some one who has threatened or attempted

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation, or suspended animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as. the inhalation of poisonous gases

Under the mining laws of the United States, the holder of an unpatented mining claim on the public domain is required, in order to hold his claim, to do labor or make

The act of a number of persons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or