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1. A connected series of propositions; a system of rules. The subdivisions of a document, code, book, etc. A specification of distinct matters agreed upon or established by authority or requiring Judicial

In patent law. A natural force so transformed in character or energies by human power as to possess new capabilities of action; this transformation of a natural force into a force practically

The proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of metals,

One who makes an assignment of any kind; one who assigns or transfers property.

A person who has been Insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. Brockway v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 760; Sanford

The act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other judicial order, and bringing the same into the custody of the law;

A private attorney authorized by another to act in his place and stead, either for some particular purpose, as to do a particular act, or for the transaction of business in general,

The increase of the crown’s revenues from the suppression of religious houses and the appropriation of their lands and revenues. Also the name of a court {now abolished) erected 27 Hen. VIII.,

In pleading. Another action pending. A species of plea in abatement. 1 Chit. PI. 454.

Aiding; attendant on; ancillary, (g. v.) As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. 683, 31 N. Y. Supp. 1001.

A writ granted to one whose cattle were unlawfully distrained by another and driven out of the county in which they were taken, so that they could not be replevied by the

In ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice.

In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal councl’ of a city or town. 1 White, Coll. 416; Friedman v. Goodwin, 9 Fed. Cas. 818.

In life insurance. A company in which a death loss is met by levying an assessment on the surviving mem- bets of the association. Mutual Ren. L. Ins. Co. v. Marye. 85

A writ of assise which lay for the recovery of lands or tenements, where the claimant had been lately disseised.

In the civil law. An original instrument or writing; the original of a will or other instrument, as distinguished from a copy. Dig. 22, 4, 2; Id. 29, 3, 12.

Lat. in the civil law. An action or suit; a right or cause of action. It should be noted that this term means both the proceeding to enforce a right in a

An action granted to one who had been compelled by unlawful force, or fear (metus causa) that was not groundless, (met us proba- bitis or jiistus.) to deliver, sell, or promise a

In the law of libel and slander. Words which import a charge of some punishable crime or some offensive disease, or impute moral turpitude, or tend to injure a party in his

In Scotch law. Ordinances for regulating the forms of proceeding, before the court of session, in the administration of justice, made by the judges, who have the power by virtue of a