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Moneys paid before or in advance of the proper time of payment; money or commodities furnished on credit; a loan or gift, or money advanced to be repaid conditionally. Vail v. Vail,

Certain articles or ordinances drawn up by Archbishop Parker and some of the bishops in 1504, at the request of Queen Elizabeth, the object of which was to enforce decency and uniformity

A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.

In Saxon law. The estimation or valuation of the head; the price or value of a man. By the laws of Athelstan, the life of every man not excepting tlrat of the

A swearing of the oath of fidelity or of fealty to one’s lord, under whose protection the quasi-vassal has voluntarily come. Brown.

At common law. Relationship by marriage between the husband and the blood relations of the wife, and be- tween the wife and the blood relations of the D husband. 1 Bl. Comm.

To add to; to increase; to strengthen; to add force to.

When time is to be computed “after” a certain date, it is meant that sut-h date should be excluded in the computation. Bigelow v. Wilson, 1 Pick. (Mass.) 4S5; Taylor v. Jaeoby.

A term sometimes applied to the kind of implied agency which enables a wife to procure what is reasonably necessary for her maintenance and support on her husband’s credit and at his

In commercial law. A term used to express the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or between one sort of metallic money and another. McCul. Diet.

In Roman law. Laws for the distribution among the people, by public authority, of the lands constituting the public domain, usually territory conquered from an enemy. In common parlance the term is

In ancient customs, a fee, due from the vassals to their lord for sharpening their plowing tackle.

In old English law. An easement. Spelman.

The white book; an ancient book containing a compilation of the law and customs of the city of Loudon. It has lately been reprinted by order of the master of the rolls.

A mutual agreement, of which the effects, with respect both to the advantages and losses, whether to all the parties or to some of them, depend on an uncertain event. Civil Code

The subject of a nation with which we are at peace; an alien amy.

In Scotch law. To maintain, support, provide for; to provide with necessaries. As a noun, maintenance, support ; an allowance from the husband’s estate for the support of the wife. Paters. Comp.

One alleging contrary or contradictory things (whose statements contradict each other) is not to be heard. 4 Inst. 279. Applied to the statements of a witness.

An allowance made upon an account in the English exchequer. Cowell.

By the English general inclosure act. 1S45.