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In England, a quantity of land amounting to 15 acres. In Ireland, a subdivision of a county.

See ANIMAL.

In old English law. Battel; the trial by combat or duellum.

To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to”, or to produce, something else as an incident or auxiliary.

A service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap their landlord’s corn at harvest Said by Whishaw to be still in existence in some parts of England. Blount;

A seat of judgment or tribunal for the administration of justice; the seat occupied by judges in courts; also the court itself, as the “King’s Bench,” or the aggregate of the judges

In Scotch law. The privilege of competency. A privilege which the grantor of a gratuitous obligation was entitled to, by which he might retain sufficient for his subsistence, if, before fulfilling the

Liberal Interpretations are to be made of deeds, so that the purpose may rather stand than fall; and every grant is to be taken most strongly against the grantor. Wallis v. Wallis,

Lat In the Roman law. A division of the as, or pound, consisting of eight uncial, or duodecimal parts, and amounting to two-thirds of the as. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m.

In European maritime law. A document furnished by the builder of a vessel, containing a register of her admeasurement, particularizing the length, breadth, and dimensions of every part of the ship. It

Of a double language or tongue; that can speak two languages. A term applied in the old books to a jury composed partly of Englishmen and partly of foreigners, which, by the

A written order from A. to B., directing B. to pay to C. a certain sum of money therein named. Byles, Bills, 1. An open (that is, unsealed) letter addressed by one

The legalized use of two metals in the currency of a country at a fixed relative value.

The statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest, near

An ancient tenure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., if required; similar to free and common socage.

A committee of persons organized under authority of law in order to exercise certain authorities, have oversight or control of certain matters, or discharge certain functions of a magisterial, representative, or fiduciary

Any physical or corporeal injury; not necessarily restricted to injury to the trunk or main part of the body as distinguished from the head or limbs. Quirk v. Siegel-Cooper Co., 43 App.

Goods forfeited.

A creditor whose debt is secured by a bond.

A good thing required by necessity is not good beyond the limits of such necessity. Hob. 144.