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An inclosed yard or opening in a house: an open place adjoining a house. 1 Chit. Pr. 170. In the civil law. A vacant space in a city; a place not built

In rhetoric and logic, an inference drawn from premises, the truth of which is Indisputable, or at least highly probable. The argument of a demurrer, special case, appeal, or other proceeding involving

Earnest. Used in Yorkshire in the phrase “Aries-penny.” Cowell. In Scotland it has the same signification. Bell.

A measure of land of uncertain quantity mentioned in Domesday and other old books; by some called an “acre,” by others “half an acre,” and by others a “furlong.” Spelman; Cowell; Blount.

In old English law. A writ which lay for a person whose cattle or goods were taken by another, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, and who

In the civil law. The adoption of a person who was of full age or sui juris. 1 Browne, Civil & Adm. Law, 119; Dig. 1, 7, 5; Inst. 1, 11, 3.

The name of the instrument embodying the compact made between the thirteen original states of the Union, before the adoption of the present constitution.

The succession between predecessors and successors in a corporation aggregate or sole. Thomas v. Dakin, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 100.

In maritime law. An insurer, (aversor periculi.) Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 2, c. 5,

Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the

A servitude by which grain growing on certain lands or brought within them must be carried to a certain mill to be ground, a certain multure or price being paid for the

In old English practice. A writ which lay to inquire whether a jury of twelve men had given a false verdict, in order that the judgment might be reversed. 3 Bl. Comm.

The office of an agent or attorney.

The chief court of England in early Norman times. It was established by William the Conqueror in his own hall. It was composed of the great officers of state, resident in the

One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Atwill v. Ferrett, 2 Blatchf. 39, Fed. Cas. No. 640;

In feudal law. The right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian In socage had also the same right,

In the civil law. An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk. Letting a house altogether, instead of in chambers. 4 Kent, Comm.

In old English law. Adultery. Termes de la Ley.

As distinguished from a criminal action, it is one which seeks the establishment, recovery, or redress of private and civil rights. Civil suits relate to and affect, as to the parties against

1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that