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Null, void, of no force or effect. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 214.

The intention to steal. Gardner v. State, 55 N. J. Law, 17, 20 Atl. 30; State v. Slingerland. 19 New 135. 7 Pac. 280.

In Scotch law. Half a year’s stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister’s relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease.

A remark, note, or commentary on some passage of a book, intended to illustrate its meaning. Webster. In the civil law. An imperial rescript signed by the emperor. The answers of the

A year made up of available or serviceable days. Brissonius; Calvin. In the plural, anni utiles signifies the years during which a right can be exercised or a prescription grow.

Before suit brought; before controversy instituted.

In Roman law. To restore a former law or practice; to reject or vote against a new law; to prefer the old law. Those who voted against a proposed law wrote on

Lat. In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquittance. It differs from acceptilation in this: that acceptilation imports a complete discharge of the former obligation whether payment be made or not;

That which Is obvious, evident, or manifest; what appears, or has been made manifest. In respect to facts involved in an appeal or writ of error, that which is stated in the

Pertaining to or having cognizance of appeals and other proceedings for the judicial review of adjudications.

A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power is the person who is to receive the benefit of the power.

An apprentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See ArrRENTiCE EN LA LET.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way or

Water runs, and ought to run, as it has used to run. 3 Bulst. 339; 3 Kent, Comm. 439. A running stream should be left to flow in its natural channel, without

A just arbitration renders to every one his own. Noy, Max. 248.

State secrets. 1 Bl. Comm. 337.

In Spanish law. Sandy beaches; or grounds on the banks of rivers. White, Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6.

An argument arising from the inconvenience which the proposed construction of the law would create.

A portion of the sea projecting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. 5 Coke, 107. An arm of the sea is considered as extending as far into the interior of

A measurer or surveyor of land. Cowell; Spelman.