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Flowing or running water. Dig. 1, 8, 2.

Land suitable for the plow; arable land. Spelman.

Lat. A tree; a plant; something larger than an herb; a general term including vines, osiers, and even reeds. The mast of a ship. Brissonius. Timber. Aiusworth; Calvin.

Spirituous or distilled liquors. Sarlls v. U. S

Bullion ; uncoined silver ; common silver coin; silver coin worn smooth. Cowell ; Spelman.

A mediteval term for a class of agricultural owners of small allodial farms, which they cultivated in connection with larger farms belonging to their lords, paying rent and service for the latter,

Anything that a man wears for his defense, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at or strike at another. Co. Litt. 1616, 162a; State v. Buzzard,

In criminal practice. The stopping, seizing, or apprehending a person by lawful authority; the act of laying hands upon a person for the purpose of taking his body into custody of the

In feudal law. A fief or fee dependent on a superior one; an inferior fief granted by a vassal of the king, out of the fief held by him. Mon- tesq. Esprit

1. A connected series of propositions; a system of rules. The subdivisions of a document, code, book, etc. A specification of distinct matters agreed upon or established by authority or requiring Judicial

In patent law. A natural force so transformed in character or energies by human power as to possess new capabilities of action; this transformation of a natural force into a force practically

The proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of metals,

One who makes an assignment of any kind; one who assigns or transfers property.

A person who has been Insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. Brockway v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 760; Sanford

The act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other judicial order, and bringing the same into the custody of the law;

A private attorney authorized by another to act in his place and stead, either for some particular purpose, as to do a particular act, or for the transaction of business in general,

The increase of the crown’s revenues from the suppression of religious houses and the appropriation of their lands and revenues. Also the name of a court {now abolished) erected 27 Hen. VIII.,

In pleading. Another action pending. A species of plea in abatement. 1 Chit. PI. 454.

Aiding; attendant on; ancillary, (g. v.) As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. 683, 31 N. Y. Supp. 1001.

A writ granted to one whose cattle were unlawfully distrained by another and driven out of the county in which they were taken, so that they could not be replevied by the