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In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who conies to him duly accredited; and,
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In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who conies to him duly accredited; and,
The sister of one’s father or mother, and a relation in the third degree, correlative to niece or nephew.
L. Fr. Another.
In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt.
The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones.
In old English statutes. A measure of wine, or vessel containing forty gallons.
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,
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