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Iu practice. To be properly before a court; as a fact or matter of which it can take notice. To be in evidence; to be proved. “Making it appear and proving are

To belong to; to have relation to; to be appurtenant to. See APPURTENANT.

In practice. To fix or set a price or value upon; to fix and state the true value of a thing, and, usually, in writing. Vincent v. German Ins. Co., 120 Iowa,

By the common law, approvement is said to be a species of confession, and incident to the arraignment of a prisoner indicted for treason or felony, who confesses the fact before plea

Fresh water. Reg. Orig. 97; Bract, fols. 117, 135.

In old English law. A plow of land ; a plow-land; as much land as could be tilled with one plow. Whis- haw.

An award is a judgment Jenk. Cent. 137.

The Rolls; any place where ancient records, charters, and evidences are kept. In libraries, the private depository. Cowell; Spelman. The derivative meaning of the word (now the more common) denotes the writings

An old French coin, answering nearly to the English shilling. Spelman.

In feudal law. A fine for not setting out to join the army in obedience to the summons of the king.

A suspending or cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations or forces for a considerable time.

In Spanish law. The contract of letting and hiring an estate or land, (lieredad.) White, Recop. b. 2, tit. 14, c. 1.

In English and Scotch law. Indefinite services formerly deinandable from tenants, but prohibited by statute, (20 Geo. II. c. 50,

A separate aud distinct part of an instrument or writing comprising two or more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole. Carter v. Railroad Co., 126 N.

One who buys goods in order to reduce them, by his own art or industry, into other forms, and then to sell them. Lansdale v. Brashear, 3 T. B. Mou. (Ky.) 335.

Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the person upon whom the crime is committed. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 4.”i. A murder committed treacherously,

Ascertaining a widow’s right of dower by laying out or marking off one-third of her “deceased husband’s lands, and setting off the same for her use during life. Bettis v. Mc- Nider,

A term or condition in a contract of employment, either express or implied from the circumstances of the employment, by which the employ^ agrees that dangers of injury ordinarily or obviously incident

A person attached to the Buite of an ambassador or to a foreign legation.

In the most general sense this term denotes an agent or substitute, or one who is appointed and authorized to act in the place or stead of another. In re Ricker, 60