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In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee.

An ancient writ to provide the king’s chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension. Reg. Orig. 165, 307.

A year is the duration of the motion by which a planet revolves through its orbit. Dig. 40, 7, 4, 5; Calvin.; Bract. 3596.

Born before. A person born before another person or before a particular event. The term is particularly applied to one born in a country before a revolution, change of government or dynasty,

In old English law. Ancient demesne.

In old commercial law. Bills of lading.

as used with reference to the doctrine of self-defense in homicide, means such overt actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or do some great personal injury,

Lat. An appeal.

In chancery practice. The exercise of a right to designate the person or persons who are to take the use of real estate. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 302. The act of a

In Scotch law. A form of process by which a creditor formerly took possession of the estates of the debtor in payment of the debt due. It is now superseded by adjudications.

Belonging to; accessory or incident to; adjunct, appended, or annexed to; answering to acccssorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note. A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant

In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Inst.

Not supported by fair, solid, and substantial cause, and without reason given. Treloar v. Bigge, L. R. 9 Exch. 155.

In civil and old English law. A treasurer; a keeper of public money. Cod. 10, 70, 15; Spelman.

A farmer or renter; in some provinces of Russia, one who farms the public rents or revenues; a “crown arenda- tor” is one who rents an estate belonging to the crown.

In pleading. Indirect; inferential. Steph. PI. 179. A pleading is so called in which the statement on which the pleader relies is implied instead of being expressed, or where it contains, in

Lat. Arms; weapons, offensive and defensive; armor; arms or cognizances of families.

In the civil law. Earnest; earnest-money; evidence of a completed bargain. Used of a contract of marriage, as well as any other. Spelled, also, Arrha, Arris. Calvin.

In Scotch law. The person in whose hands the movables of another, or a debt due to another, are arrested by the creditor of the latter by the process of arrestment. 2

Store-houses for arms; dock-yards, magazines, and other military stores.