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A principle put in practice and applied to some art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. Earle v. Sawyer, 4 Mason, 1, Fed. Cas. No. 4,247. See Act Cong. July 8, 1870.

A complaint made or exhibited to a court by a person who makes oath that he is in fear of death or bodily harm from some one who has threatened or attempted

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation, or suspended animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as. the inhalation of poisonous gases

Under the mining laws of the United States, the holder of an unpatented mining claim on the public domain is required, in order to hold his claim, to do labor or make

The act of a number of persons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or

One who does not believe in tbe existence of a God. Gibson v. Insurance Co., 37 N. Y. 584; Thurston v. Whitney, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 110; Com. v. Hills, 10 Cush. (Mass.)

The act of witnessing an instrument in writing, at the request of the party making the same, and subscribing it as a witness. See ATTEST. Execution and attestation are clearly distinct formalities;

Hear the other side; hear both sides. No man should be condemned unheard. Broom, Max. 113. See L. R. 2 P. C. 106.

In English law. An ancient mode of weighing, described by Cowell as “a kind of weight with scales hanging, or hooks fastened to each end of a staff, which a man, lifting

The dissection of a dead body for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of death. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1288. Sudduth ?. Insurance Co. (a C.) 106 Fed. 823.

A mischance causing the death of a man, as where a person is suddenly drowned or killed by any accident, without felony. Co. Litt. 391.

Fr. Advocate; an advocate.

A crop sown before the expiration of a tenancy, which cannot ripen until after its expiration, to which, however, the tenant is entitled. Broom, Max. 412.

Articles concerning money, or the currency. The title of a statute passed in the twentieth year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 228; Crabb, Eng. Law, (Amer. Ed.) 167.

An assise of nuisance ; a writ to abate or redress a nuisance.

An honorary, or pnetorian action. Dig. 44, 7, 25, 35.

In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause in the plea to the further mainte nance of the action, introduced In plact of the plea puis darrein continuance; the averment

A plaintiff is not to be heard who has advanced anything against authority, (or against the rule.)

The act of God does injury to no one. 2 Bl. Comm. 122. A thing which is inevitable by the act of God, which no industry can avoid, nor policy prevent, will

To hear and determine. St. Westm. 2, cc. 29, 30.