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In insurance. The diminution, destruction, or defeat of the value of, or of the charge upon, the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk

To pronounce anathema upon; to pronounce accursed by ecclesiastical authority; to excommunicate.

The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another, in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former. Wolllius,

Lat. With intention, disposition, design, will. Quo animo, with what intention. Animo cancellandi. with intention to cancel. 1 Pow. Dev. 003. Furandi, with intention to steal. 4 Bl. Comm. 230; 1 Kent.

The intention of possessing.

In ecclesiastical law. First- fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year’s profit was taken as their rate.

The meaning of this term, us applied to interest, is not an undertaking to pay interest at the end of one year only, but to pay interest at the end of each

Irregular; exceptional; unusual; not conforming to rule, method, or type.

In Saxon law. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “prwjuramcntum,” and “juramcntum calumnicB,”) which both the accuser and accused were required to make before any trial or purgation; the accuser swearing

In old French law. A provision of lands or feudal superiorities assigned by the kings of France for the maintenance of their younger sons. An allow– ance assigned to a prince of

A civil law term signifying an inventory or enumeration of things in one’s possession. Calvin,

An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England and summon offenders. Cowell. In the civil law. An officer who waited upon a magistrate or superior

In old English law. A criminal who accuses his accomplices, or who challenges a jury.

The division, partition, or distribution of a subject-matter in proportionate parts. Co. Litt. 147; 1 Swanst 37, n.; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 475a. Of contracts. The allowance, in case of a severable

1. To make a thing one’s own; to make a thing the subject of property; to exercise dominion over an object to the extent, and for the purpose, of making it subserve

Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are intended ; sound technical phrases.

A canal, ditch, or watercourse running through marsby grounds. A mark or gauge placed in or on tlie banks of a running stream, to indicate the height of the water, was called

In practice. The investigation and determination of a matter or matters of difference between contending parties, by one or more unofficial persons, chosen by the parties, and called “arbitrators,” or “referees.” Duren

A dignitary of the Anglican church who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction immediately subordinate to that of the bishop, either throughout the whole of his diocese or iu some particular part of it.

In ancient Greek law. A lawyer or chief judge of the Areopagus in capital matters in Athens; a tribunal so called after a hill or slight eminence, in a street of that