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A contract whose terms allow of performance by the doing of either one of several acts at the election of the party from whom performance is due. Crane v. Peer. 43 N.

An ambiguous answer is to be taken against (is not to be construed in favor of) him who offers it 10 Coke, 59.

In practice. The correction of an error committed in any process, pleading, or proceeding at law, or in equity, and which is done either of course, or by the consent of parties,

To lose the protection afforded by the law of the land.

The English indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents, it is equivalent to “one” or “any;” is seldom used to denote plurality. Kaufman v. Superior Court, 115 Cal. 152, 46 Pac.

In English law. A prestation or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 2, c. 0.

In old English law. Engiishery; the fact of being an Englishman. Angliae jura in omni casu libertatis dant favorem. The laws of England in every case of liberty are favorable, (favor liberty

The intention of donating or dedicating

The intention of returning. A man retains his domicile if he leaves it animo rcvertrndi. In re Miller’s Estate, 3 Rawle (Pa.) 312. 24 Am. Dec. 345 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 225;

Made null, abrogated, frustrated, or brought to nothing. Litt c. 3,

(Lat. ring and staff.)’ The investiture of a bishop was per annulum et baculum, by the prince’s delivering to the prelate a ring and pastoral staff, or crozier. 1 Bl. Comm. 378;

In old English law. An ancient mode of weighing by hanging scales or hooks at either end of a beam or staff, which, being lifted with one’s finger or hand by the

In Roman law. An officer whose duty It was to take care of tax money. A comptroller.

The summit or highest point of anything; the top; e. g., in mining law, “apex of a vein.” See Larkin v. Upton, 144 U. S. 19, 12 Sup. Ct 614, 36 L.

In English admiralty practice. A term borrowed from the civil law, denoting brief dismissory letters granted to a party who appeals from an inferior to a superior court, embodying a statement of

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.