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To defend and clear one’s self; to wage one’s own law.

Partition,apportionment, division ; the distribution of laud under an inclosure act, or sharesin a public undertaking or corporation.

L. Lat. In feudal law. Old forms of alodium, or allodium, (‘/

L. Lat. By alternate turns; at alternate times ; alternately. Co. Litt. 4a; Shep. Touch. 200.

A patent ambiguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evidence. Lofft, 249.

To impose an amercement or fine; to punish by a fine or penalty.

To alien lands in mortmain.

In medical Jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensation, or insensibility to pain, general or local, induced by the administration or application of certain drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas, or cocaine. (2)

In English law. Gentlemen of the inns of court and chancery. In Gray’s Inn the society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of

In Saxon law. The rate fixed by law at which certain injuries to person or property were to be paid for; in injuries to the person, it seems to be equivalent to

The intention of giving. Expressive of the intent to give which is necessary to constitute a gift.

The intention of the party is the soul of the Instrument. 3 Bulst. 07; Fitm. Prin. & Sur. 2G. In order to give life or effect to an instrument, it is essential

A species of yearly rents issuing out of certain lands, and payable to certain monasteries.

A year and a day.

Before the exhibition of the bill. Before suit begun.

In English law. Ancient custom. An export duty on wool, woolfelts, and leather, imposed during the reign of Edw. I. It was so called by way of distinction from an increased duty

In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper.

Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are compounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1806, c. 184,

A docket kept by the clerk of the court, in which appearances are entered, containing also a brief abstract of all the proceedings in the cause.

A putting to, placing before, preferring a request or petition to or before a person. The act of making a request for something. A written request to have a certain quantity of