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See AMI ; PROCIIEIN AMY.

A watch, consisting of a small number of men. (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables,

In Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing: a single were- gild; the compensation of a thing according to its single value or estimation. Spelman. The double gild

The intention to take or capture. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 120, 155.

The intention of restoring. Fleta. lib. 3, c. 2.

A child a year old. Calvin.

Lat. In old English law. A ring; the ring of a door. Per haspam vel annulum hostii exterioris; by the hasp or ring of the outer door. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15,

Annoyance; nuisance. Cowell; Kelharn.

The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. In conveyancing, anticipation is the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income before it becomes due. In patent

In the civil law. A form of proving a will, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it

L Fr. An addition; a marginal note or observation. Kelham.

In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used to signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; as where

Payment of money by weight instead of by count. Cowell.

In French law, an addition or annotation made in the margin of a writing. Merl. Repert

Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.

Running water.

A plow-man; a farmer of arable laud.

The decision of an arbiter, or arbitrator; an award; a judgment.

L. Lat. In old European law. A chief or high chancellor, (summus cancellarius.) Spelman.

A money IKH’ter in the English exchequer, who carries the money from the lower to the upper exchequer to be examined and tested. Spelman.