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In old English criminal practice. The established formula of reply by a prisoner, when arraigned at the bar, to the question, “Culprit, how wilt thou be tried?”

In forest law. Carrying on the back. One of the cases in which an offender against vert and venison might be arrested, as being taken with the mainour, or manner, or found

A chest or coffer. Fleta.

A delivery of goods or personal property, by one person to another, in trust for the execution of a special object upon or in relation to such goods, beneficial either to the

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor.

An outlaw; a man banned, or put under a ban ; a brigand or robber. Banditti, a band of robbers.

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

Bestiality is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order a of nature by man or woman in any manner Is with a beast Code Ga. 1882,

Those things which, as to property, pertain to the people or nation, and, as to their use, to the individuals of the territory or district, such as rivers, shores, ports, and public

exceptions. A formal statement in writing of the objections or exceptions taken by a party during the trial of a cause to the decisions, rulings, or instructions of the trial judge, stating

When an importer of goods is ignorant of their exact quantity or quality, so that he cannot make a perfect entry of them, he may give to the customs officer a written