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In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Inst.

Not supported by fair, solid, and substantial cause, and without reason given. Treloar v. Bigge, L. R. 9 Exch. 155.

In civil and old English law. A treasurer; a keeper of public money. Cod. 10, 70, 15; Spelman.

A farmer or renter; in some provinces of Russia, one who farms the public rents or revenues; a “crown arenda- tor” is one who rents an estate belonging to the crown.

In pleading. Indirect; inferential. Steph. PI. 179. A pleading is so called in which the statement on which the pleader relies is implied instead of being expressed, or where it contains, in

Lat. Arms; weapons, offensive and defensive; armor; arms or cognizances of families.

In the civil law. Earnest; earnest-money; evidence of a completed bargain. Used of a contract of marriage, as well as any other. Spelled, also, Arrha, Arris. Calvin.

In old English law. An arrest, (g. v.)

Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or assayed by fire and by weighing.

The instrument by which a private corporation is formed and organized under general corporation laws. People v. Golden Gate Lodge, 128 Cal. 257, 00 Pne. S65.

Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one’s parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc

The highest ecclesiastical court in Scotland, composed of a repre sentation of the ministers and elders of the church, regulated by Act 5th Assem. 1694.

The assise of salable commodities, or of things exposed for sale.

Beyond the reach of personal influence or control. Parties are said to deal “at arm’s length” when each stands upon the strict letter of his rights, and conducts the business in a

In criminal law. An effort or endeavor to accomplish a crime, amounting to more than mere preparation or planning for it, and which, if not prevented, would have resulted in the full

A public sale of land or goods, at public outcry, to the highest bidder. Russell v. Miner, 61 Barb. (N. Y.) 539; Hibler v. Hoag, 1 Watts & S. (Pa.) 553; Crandall

See ALNAGEB.

Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign. Schm. Civil Law, 93.

Profits, or proceeds. This word seems to have been construed only in reference to wills, and in them it means the corpus or proceeds of the estate after the payment of the

Goods, property, substance; a beast of burden. Spelman.