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The act of corrupting or debasing. The term is generally applied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and

(From Lat. adversa, things remarked or ready at hand.) Rough memoranda, common-place books.

In old practice. One who called on or vouched another to warrant a title; a voucher. Advocatus; the person called on, or vouched; a vouchee. Spelman; Townsh. PI. 45. In Scotch practice.

The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Crabb, Technol. Diet.

In the civil law. Connections by marriage, whether of the persons or their relatives. Calvin. Neighbors, who own or occupy adjoining lands. Dig. 10, 1, 12.

In criminal law. The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people. Burton v. Com.. 60 S. W. 526, 22 Ky. Law Rep. 1315:

Signifies those periods in the lives of persons of both sexes which enable them to do certain acts which, before they had arrived at those periods, they were prohibited from doing. The

Under statutes granting the right of appeal to the party aggrieved by an order or judgment, the party aggrieved is one whose pecuniary interest is directly Affected by the adjudication; one whose

In Roman law. The term included “all the cognates who trace their connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates is formed by taking each lineal ancestor in turn and including all

In criminal law. That kind of connection with the commission of a crime which, at common law, rendered the person guilty as a principal in the second degree. It consisted in being

In Spanish law. Paraphernalia. The jewels and furniture which a wife brings in marriage.

A judicial or administrative magistrate. Originally the word was synonymous with “elder,” but was also used to designate an earl, and even a king. In English law. An associate to the chief

The subject of a nation with which we are at peace; an alien amy.

Lat. In a different view; under a different aspect. 4 Rob. Adm. & Pr. 151. With another view or object. 7 East. 558: 0 Maule & S. 234.

That ought not to be alleged which, if proved, is not relevant. 1 Ch. Cas. 45.

In old English practice. In proceedings in outlawry, when there were but two county courts holden between the delivery of the writ of exigi facias to the sheriff and its return, a

Lat. In the civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soil or land from the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal.

Variation; changing; making different. See ALTER. An alteration is an act done upon the instrument by which its meaning or language is changed. If what is written upon or erased from the

A messenger; a servant sent about; one whose services his master hired out. Spelman.

Movable; revocable; subject to change. Ambulatoria voluntas (a changeable will) denotes the power which a testator possesses of altering his will during his life-time. Hattersley v. Bissett, 50 N. J. Eq. 577,