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According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property ; the latter

In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or president judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from having authority over the

Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost, as a recompense to the owner. Cowell.

A swearing or binding upon oath.

In the most usual sense of the word, is a person to whom letters of administration, that is, an authority to administer the estate of a deceased per- son, have been granted

That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority. It commences for males at 14, and for females at 12 years completed, and continues till 21 years complete.

In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of fourteen ; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Liv. Prel. tit. 2,

An adventure. 2 Mon. Angl. 615; Townsh. PI. 50. Flotson, jet- son, and lagon are styled adventures maris (adventures of the sea.) Ilale, De Jure Mar. pt. 1, c. 7.

In Scotch law. A process by which an action may be carried from an inferior to a superior court before final Judgment in the former.

To act upon ; influence; change ; enlarge or abridge. This word is often used in the sense of acting injuriously upon persons and things. Ryan v. Carter, 93 U. S. 84,

A term employed in old practice, signifying to put on file. 2 Maule & S. 202. In modern usage it is contracted to file.

In French law. The right of the inhabitants of a commune or section of a commune to take from the forest the fire-wood which is necessary for their use. Duverger.

L. Fr. An award. Nul fait agard; no award made.

The party who first offers violence or offense. He who begins a quarrel or dispute, either by threatening or striking another.

Relating to land, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agrarian law.

In old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxou law. One bound by oath, q. d. “oath- tied.” From atli, oath, and tied. Id.

In old English law, the eldest or flrst born.

In Spanish law. A duty of a certain i>er cent, paid to the treasury on the sale or exchange of property.

An alias writ is a second writ issued in the same cause, where a former writ of the Bame kind had been issued without effect In such case, the language of the

In Scotch law. To maintain, support, provide for; to provide with necessaries. As a noun, maintenance, support ; an allowance from the husband’s estate for the support of the wife. Paters. Comp.