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In old English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the

In old French law. An assemblage of houses surrounded with walls; a fortified town or village. In old English law. A borough, a village.

An instrument formerly used in some parts of England for the correction of scolds; a scolding bridle. It inclosed the head and a sharp piece of iron entered the mouth and restrained

In Saxon and old English law. A fine, penalty, or amercement imposed for defaults in the assise of bread. Cowell.

Jenk. Cent 292. A judicial writ ought to follow its original, and an accessory its principal.

One who manufactures fermented liquors of any name or description, for sale, from malt, wholly or in part, or from any substitute therefor. Act July 13, 1866,

To “bring” an action or suit has a settled customary meaning at law, and refers to the initation of legal proceedings in a suit. A suit is “brought” at the time it

In medical jurisprudence. A contusion; an injury upon the flesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument, without solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. Shadock v. Road Co.,

An officially published notice or announcement concerning the progress of matters of public importance. In France, the registry of the laws.

A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc.

In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 27,

To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor; or by agreeing to do so ; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to

plea of infancy, interposed for the purpose of defeating an action upon a contract made while the person was a minor, is vulgarly called “pleading the baby act.” By extension, the term

Substantially defective; inapt; not good. The technical word for unsoundness in pleading.

A bailiff’s deputy

Small galleries of wood or stone on the outside of houses. The erection of them is regulated In London by the building acts.

Bench; the seat of judgment; the place where a court permanently or regularly sits. The full bench, full court. A “sitting in banc” is a meeting of all the judges of a

1. The state or condition of one who is a bankrupt; amenability to the bankrupt laws; the condition of one who has committed an act of bankruptcy, and is liable to be

In English law. A fee taken by the sheriff, time out of mind, for every prisoner who is acquitted. Bac. Abr. “Extortion.” Abolished by St. 14 Geo. III. c. 2G; 55 Geo.

Husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her baron, lord, or husband, is styled a “fcme-covcrt,” (fccmina viro cooperta,) and her state of marriage is called her