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The custom or practice of a court. Ilardr. 141

Lat Contemporaneous exposition, or construc- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In the Roman law. Continuing; holding together. Adjoining buildings were said to be continentia.

Against good morals. Contracts contra bono.? mores are void.

Certain contracts are those in which the thing to be done is supposed to depend on the will of the party, or when, in the usual course of events, it must happen

In French law. Contracts are of the following varieties: (1) Bilateral, or synallagiiiatiqne, where each party is bound to the other to do what is just and proper; or (2) unilateral, where

In old English law. An Inventer or deviser of false news. 2 Inst. 227.

In civil and old English law. It is agreed; it was agreed.

One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine titles to real estate. 14 St. at Large, 118. He who draws conveyances;

A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom.

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court.

A species of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a

Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexual intercourse ; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. GrifTeth v. Griffeth, 162 111. 308, 44 N. E. 820;

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Illegality; a vicious and fraudulent intention to evade the prohibitions of the law. The act of an official or fiduciary person who unlawfully and wrongfully uses his station or character to procure

The cost of an article purchased for exportation is the price paid, with all Incidental charges paid at the place of exportation. Goodwin v. U. S., 2 Wash. C. C. 493, Fed.

A cottager or cottage-holder who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell

Counting upon a statute consists in making express reference to it, as by the words “against the form of the statute” (or “by the force of the statute”) “in such case made

The act of forging.

A term bestowed upon certain counties in England, the lords of which in former times enjoyed especial privileges. They might pardon treasons, murders, and felonies. All writs and indictments ran in their