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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 It is now superseded by adjudications.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 old English law. An arrest, (g. v.)

Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or assayed by fire and by weighing.

The instrument by which a private corporation is formed and organized under general corporation laws. People v. Golden Gate Lodge, 128 Cal. 257, 00 Pne. S65.

Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one’s parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc

The highest ecclesiastical court in Scotland, composed of a repre sentation of the ministers and elders of the church, regulated by Act 5th Assem. 1694.