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A swearing of the oath of fidelity or of fealty to one’s lord, under whose protection the quasi-vassal has voluntarily come. Brown.

In the civil law. Affixed, fixed, or fastened to.

This term as used in a bill payable so many days after sight, means after legal sight: that is, after legal presentment for acceptance. ‘Hie mere fact of having seen the bill

Lat. In the civil law. A field ; land generally. A portion of land inclosed by definite boundaries. Municipality No. 2 v. Orleans Cotton Press. 18 La. 107, 36 Am. Dec. 624.

In the civil law. Relationship on the father’s side; agnation. Agnatio a patrc est. Inst 3, 5, 4; Id. 3, 6, 6.

Fr. In French marine law. The rigging or tackle of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 2, art. 1; Id. tit 11, art 2; Id liv. 3, tit. 1, art. 1L

That fluid transparent substance which surrounds our globe. Bank v. Ken- nett 101 Mo. App. 370, 74 S. W. 474.

In old French law. A stranger, alien, or foreigner.

Probably a corruption of Laganum maris, lagan being a right, in the middle ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the

Lat Of another kind. 3 P. Wins. 247.

Lat. From another source; from elsewhere; from outeide. Evidence aliunde (i. e., from without the will) may be received to explain an ambiguity in a will. 1 Greenl. Ev.

To defend and clear one’s self; to wage one’s own law.

Partition,apportionment, division ; the distribution of laud under an inclosure act, or sharesin a public undertaking or corporation.

L. Lat. In feudal law. Old forms of alodium, or allodium, (‘/

L. Lat. By alternate turns; at alternate times ; alternately. Co. Litt. 4a; Shep. Touch. 200.

Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning; indistinctness or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument. Ninrlle v. State Bank, 13 Neb. 245, 13 N. W. 275; Ellmaker v. Ellmaker, 4

A pecuniary penalty, in the nature of a fine, imposed upon a person for some fault or misconduct, he being “in mercy” for his offense. It was assessed by the peers of

In the civil law. A moving or taking away. “The slightest amotio is sufficient to constitute theft, if the animus furandi be clearly established.” 1 Swint 205.

A register, Inventory, or commentary.

Aiding; auxiliary; attendant upon; subordinate; a proceeding attendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal. Steele v. Insurance Co., 31 App. Div. 389, 52 N. Y. Supp. 373.