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L Fr. Chance; hazard; mischance.

In the civil law. A grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3.

A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury.

One who signs his name to an instrument, at the request of the party or parties, for the purpose of proving and identifying it. Skinner v. Bible Soc., 92 Wis. 209, Oo

To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.

A total lack of intelligence, reason, or mental capacity. Sometimes so used as to cover imbecility or dotage, or even as applicable to all forms of insanity ; but properly restricted to

And see Peters v. Warren Ins. Co., 19 Fed. Cas. 370.

Are real, substantial and just damages, or the amount awarded to a complainant in compensation for his actual and real loss or injury, as opposed on the one hand to “nominal” damages,