CAMPBELL’S (LORD) ACTS
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
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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.
The chief or principal debtor, as distinguished from a surety, (plcgius.)
Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads of divisions. Spelman. The term is used in the civil and old English law, and applies to the ecclesiastical law also, meaning chapters
In international law. The taking or wresting of property from one of two belligerents by the other. It occurs either on land or at sea. In the former case, the property captured
Loaded; freighted, as a ship.
Dearth, scarcity, dearness. Cowell.
To bear, bear about, sustain, transport, remove, or convey.
In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed upon every plow, (carue or plow-land,) for the public service. Spelman.
In bookkeeping, an account-book in which is kept a record of all cash transactions, or all cash received and expended. The object of the cash- book is to afford a constant facility
In old English law. Tne lord, owner, or captain of a castle; the constable of a fortified house; a person having the custody of one of the crown mansions; an officer of
A phrase used to denote (in contradistinction to “prAp- pointed evidence”) all such evidence as happens to be addueible of a fact or event, but which was not prescribed by statute or
See BARGAIN
In the civil law. An inn or tavern. Inst. 4, 5, 3.
Necessary or inevitable cause; a cause without which the effect in question could not have happened. Hayes v. Railroad Co., Ill U. S. 22S, 4 Sup. Ct. 309, 28 L. Ed. 410.
In Scotch law. An instrument in which a person binds himself as surety for another.
I grant. The word ordinarily used in Mexican conveyances to pass title to lands. Mull’ord v. Le Franc, 20 Cal. S8, 108
In Canadian law. A tenant by cens, (q. v.)
The name of a denomination of French money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc.