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To concur; to come into harmony ; to give mutual assent; to unite in mental action; to exchange promises; to make an agreement. To concur or acquiesce in; to approve or adopt.

The healing or remission, by a verdict rendered, of a delect or error in pleading which might have been objected to before verdict The presumption of the proof of all facts necessary

The wings or side aisles of a church. Blount

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

To convey; to transfer the title to property. Co. Litt. 1186. Alien is very commonly used in the same sense. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 53. “Sell, alienate, and dispone” are the formal

Lat Otherwise. A term often used in the reports. Aliud est celare, aliud tacere. To conceal Is one thing; to be silent is another thing. Lord Mansfield, 3 Burr. 1910.

The assertion, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, made in a pleading, setting out what he expects to prove. A material allegation in a pleading is one essential to

Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal. Barker v. Dayton, 28 Wis. 3S4; Wallace v. Ilarmstad, 44 Pa. 499.

In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called “Peterpence.” Cowell.

One or the other of two things; giving an option or choice; allowing a choice between two or more things or acts to be done.

Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell.

In old English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offense, or for the purpose of making reparation for any injury

Lat. In the civil and old English law. To lose. Hence the old Scotch “amitt.”

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,