AGRICULTURE
The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and the
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The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and the
In English law. A passage for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously till up, obstruct, or damage, with intent to destroy, obstruct, or render useless the air-way to any
A blank writ; a writ with a blank or omission in it.
A liberty of passage, open way, water-course, etc., for the tenant’s accommodation. Kitchin.
The state, condition, or character of an alien. 2 Kent, Comm. 56, 64, 60.
A sale of goods with “all faults” covers, in the absence of fraud on the part of the vendor, all such faults and defects as are not inconsistent with the identity of
The relation or union between persons or families contracted by intermarriage. In international law. A union or association of two or more states or nations, formed by league or treaty, for the
To grant, approve, or permit; as to allow an appeal or a marriage; to allow an account. Also to give a fit portion out of a larger property or fund. Thurman v.
L. Lat. In old English law. High treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 75. See HIQII TREASON.
The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelictus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Rom. Law,
An ambiguous plea ought to be interpreted against the parly pleading it Co. Litt. 3036.
In French law. A species of agreement which by a fiction gives to immovable goods the quality of movable. Merl. Repert; 1 Low. Can. 25, 58.
The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hilburn y. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51. 40 S. E. 618, 56
In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia cceundi; frigidity; incapacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called “dyspareunia.”
One growing ort of and auxiliary to another action or sui*. either at law or in equity, such as a bill for discovery, or a proceeding for the enforcement of a judgment,
Any animate being which is endowed with the power of voluntary motion. In the language of the law the term includes all living creatures not human. Domitw are those which have been
The intention to make a gain or profit.
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.
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