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An emphyteutic lease; a lease for a term of years with a right to prolong indefinitely ; practically equivalent to an alienation.

A large fish, called by Black- stone a “whale.” Of this the king had the head and the queen the tail as a perquisite whenever one was taken on the coast of

1. In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a

See CHECK.

A public announcement of an intended marriage, required by the English law to be made In a church or chapel, during service, on three consecutive Sundays before the marriage is celebrated. The

An Inn of chancery. See INNS OF CIIANCEBY.

In English law. An advocate; one who has been called to the bar. A counsellor learned in the law who pleads at the bar of the courts, and who is engaged in

In feudal law. Low justice; the right exercised by feudal lords of personally trying persons charged with trespasses or minor offenses.

In old English law. Bailiff. This term is used in the laws of the colony of New Plymouth, Mass., A. D. 1670, 1671. Bur- rill.

In some of the southern states (as Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina) the principal legal subdivision of a county, corresponding to towns or townships in other states; or a voting precinct Williams v.

Use; benefit; profit; service ; advantage. It occurs in conveyances, e. g., “to his and their use and behoof.” Stiles v. Japhet, 84 Tex. 91, 19 S. W. 450.

In New York law and practice. A power which has for its object the donee of the power, and which is to be executed solely for his benefit; as distinguished from a

Under this and several similar names, in various states, corporations exist to receive periodical payments from members, and hold them as a fund to be loaned or given to members needing pecuniary

The ancient name of the court now called “bar- mote,” (q. v.)

Eng. Expended. Before the Britons and Saxons had introduced the general use of money, they traded chiefly by exchange of wares. Wharton.

Ipal laws. By-laws of towns; munic-

One which is brought to take the testimony of witnesses to a fact material to the prosecution of a suit at law which is actually commenced, where there is good cause to

A bill of lading.

In old English law. A fine imposed for not repairing banks, ditches, and causeways.

In old English law. Rents reserved in work, grain, provisions, or baser money, in contradistinction to those which were reserved in white money or silver, which were termed “white rents,” (rcditus albi,)