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1. A general term, now commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, __ though formerly restricted to the smaller n| vessels. The Wenonah, 21 Grat. (Va.) 697; Reed v. Ingham, 3

One who, being competent to give evidence, is worthy of belief. Peck v. Chambers, 44 W. Va. 270, 28 S. E. 706; Savage v. Bulger (Kyj 77 S. W. 717: Amory v.

In medical jurisprudence. A form of Imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts

The offense of robbery.

A foreign coin of base metal, prohibited by statute 27 Edw. I. St. 3, from being brought into the realm. 4 Bl. Comm. 98; Crabb, Eng. Law, 176.

One of the offices of the English high court of chancery, now transferred to the high court of justice. The principal official, the clerk of the crown, is an officer of parliament,

A term of French maritime law. See A CUEILLETTK.

He who gives a thing by mistake has a right to recover it back; but, if he gives designedly, it is a gift Dig. 50, 17, 53.

When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted from the beginning either criminally or civilly. Bract. 102.

“Collect on delivery.” These letters are not cabalistic, but have a determinate meaning. They import the carrier’s liability to return to the consignor either the goods or the charges. U. S. Exp.

In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled “cadets;” students in the naval academy at Annapolis, “cadet midshipmen.” Rev. St.

1. The established order of the division of time into years, months, weeks, and days; or a systematized enumeration of such arrangement; an almanac. Rives v. Guthrie, 46 N. C. 86.

In the civil law. One who accused another of a crime without cause; one who brought a false accusation. Cod. 9, 46.

English statutes, for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel, 9 & 10 Vict c. 93; also 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96, providing for compensation to relatives in the case of

The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir.

Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller. Beawes, Lex Merc. 230.

Chief lord. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 12.

Chapters of the crown. Chapters or heads of inquiry, resembling the oapitula itincris. (infra) but of a more minute character.

A head; the head of a person; the whole person ; the life of a person; one’s personality; status; civil condition. At common law. A head. Caput comitatis, the head of the

Gaol-dues; prison-fees.