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L. Lat. In old English law. High treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 75. See HIQII TREASON.

The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelictus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

An ambiguous plea ought to be interpreted against the parly pleading it Co. Litt. 3036.

In French law. A species of agreement which by a fiction gives to immovable goods the quality of movable. Merl. Repert; 1 Low. Can. 25, 58.

The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hilburn y. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51. 40 S. E. 618, 56

In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia cceundi; frigidity; incapacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called “dyspareunia.”

One growing ort of and auxiliary to another action or sui*. either at law or in equity, such as a bill for discovery, or a proceeding for the enforcement of a judgment,

Any animate being which is endowed with the power of voluntary motion. In the language of the law the term includes all living creatures not human. Domitw are those which have been

The intention to make a gain or profit.

In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee.

An ancient writ to provide the king’s chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension. Reg. Orig. 165, 307.

A year is the duration of the motion by which a planet revolves through its orbit. Dig. 40, 7, 4, 5; Calvin.; Bract. 3596.

Born before. A person born before another person or before a particular event. The term is particularly applied to one born in a country before a revolution, change of government or dynasty,

In old English law. Ancient demesne.

In old commercial law. Bills of lading.

as used with reference to the doctrine of self-defense in homicide, means such overt actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or do some great personal injury,

Lat. An appeal.

In chancery practice. The exercise of a right to designate the person or persons who are to take the use of real estate. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 302. The act of a

In Scotch law. A form of process by which a creditor formerly took possession of the estates of the debtor in payment of the debt due. It is now superseded by adjudications.

Belonging to; accessory or incident to; adjunct, appended, or annexed to; answering to acccssorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note. A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant