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A compilation of Roman law made by order of Alaric II., king of the Visigoths, in Spain, and published for the use of his Roman subjects in the year 506.

In old European law. Strife, contention, litigation, controversy.

A wife’s brother or a sister’s husband. There is not any relationship, but only affinity, between brothers-in-law. Farmers’ L. & T. Co. v. Iowa Water Co. (C. C.) 80 Fed. 409. See

Unbroken packages. Merchandise which is neither counted, weighed, nor I measured. Bulk is said of that which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured. A sale by the bulk is the sale of

A word used in Domesday, signifying a breach of the peace in a town. Jacob.

In Scotch law. A term used to designate the rents paid into the king’s private treasury by the burgesses or inhabitants of a borough.

In old English law. Short pieces of land left unplowed at the ends of fields, where the plow was turned about, (otherwise called “headlands,”) as sidelings were similar unplowed pieces on the

An abbreviation for ‘bonum factum, a good or proper act, deed, or decree; signifies “approved.”

In the language of the stock exchange, this term signifies a consideration paid for delay in the delivery of stock contracted for, when the price is lower for time than for cash.

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.