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We ban or expel. The form of expulsion of a member from the University of Oxford, by affixing the sentence in some public places, as a promulgation of it. Cowell.

A wrangling suit. Britt. c. 92; Co. Litt. 3G86.

A measure of capacity, equal to thirty-six gallons. In agricultural and mercantile parlance, as also in the inspection laws, the term “barrel” means, prima facie, not merely a certain quantity, but, further,

In feudal law. Such services as were unworthy to be performed by the nobler men, and were performed by the peasants and those of servile rank. 2 Bl. Comm. 61.

Trial by combat; wager of battel.

An animal; a domestic animal; a quadruped, such as may be used for food or in labor or for sport.

To solicit alms or charitable aid. The act of a cripple in passing along the sidewalk and silently holding out his hand and receiving money from passers-by is “begging for alms,” within

In ecclesiastical law. In its technical sense, this term includes ecclesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, otherwise described as ecclesiastical dignities or offices, such as bishoprics, deaneries, and

The original name for what is now more commonly called a “building society,” (g. v.)

To give personal property by will to another. Lasher v. Lasher, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 106. This word is the proper term for a testamentary gift of personal property only, the word

An agreement between two or more persons that a sum of money or other valuable thing, to which all jointly contribute, _ shall become the sole property of one or f some

In English law. Property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Sugd. Vend. 495; Co. Litt. 119!). In French law. This term Includes all kinds of property, real and personal.

One which is filed by a mortgagee against the mortgagor, for the purpose of having the estate sold, thereby to obtain the sum mortgaged on the premises, with interest and costs. 1

In English law. A kind of license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for their voyage, custom free. Jacob.

A cap or coif used formerly in England by judges and serjeants at law. Spelman.

A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prior to 1805, which regulated the institution of slavery, and particularly those forbidding their

In English law. Blasphemy is the offense of speaking matter relating to God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind or to

Under the system obtaining in some of the northern states, this name is given to an organized committee, or body of officials, composed of delegates from the several townships in a county,

The main and operative part; the substantive provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat, etc.

In the Roman law. By mutual consent; voluntarily. A term applied to a species of divorce where the parties separated by mutual consent; or where the parties renounced their marital engagements without