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To fix ; to render certain or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd- dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21

One which affirms that a particular state of facts exists ; an affirming promise under seal.

TO help; aid; succor; lend countenance or encouragement to; participate in as an auxiliary. People v. Hayne, 83 Cal. Ill, 23 Fac. 1, 7 L. R. A. 348, 17 Am. St. Rep.

(1) Not limited to any particular place, district, person, matter, or question. (2) Free; unrestrained; not under corporal control; as a ferocious animal so free from restraint as to be liable to

In English law. Terms, (usually mortgages,) for a long period of years, which are created or kept outstanding for the purpose of attending or waiting upon and protecting the inheritance. 1 Steph.

In the civil law. Authority. In old European law. A diploma, or royal charter. A word frequently used by Gregory of Tours and later writers. Spelman.

In Indian law. Agent; officer; native collector of revenue; superintendent of a district or division of a country, either on the part of the government zemindar or renter.

The handwriting of any one.

L Fr. Chance; hazard; mischance.

In the civil law. A grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3.

A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury.

One who signs his name to an instrument, at the request of the party or parties, for the purpose of proving and identifying it. Skinner v. Bible Soc., 92 Wis. 209, Oo

To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.

An action which the depositary has against the depositor, to compel him to fulfil his engagement towards him. Poth. Du Depot, n. 69.

In the civil and common law. An action of tort; an action arising out of fault, misconduct, or malfeasance. Inst 4, 6, 15; 3 Bl. Comm. 117. Ex maleficio is the more

In Scotch law. These are either (1) actions of proper improbation for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions of reduction-improbation for the production of a writing in order to have

Lat. A deed; something done.

For the admitting of the clerk. A writ in the nature of an execution, commanding the bishop to admit his clerk, upon the success of the latter in a quarc impedit.

To defend. 1 Bl. Comm. 227.