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A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of

In old English law. A payment to provide candles in the church. Blount

A certificate of a corporation or joint- stock company that the person named is the owner of a designated number of shares of its stock; given when the subscription is fully paid

Neglect; a ceasing from, or omission to do, a thing. 3 Bl. Comm. 232. The determination of an estate. 1 Coke, 84; 4 Kent, Comm. 33, 90, 105, 295. The “cesser” of

He for whose use and benefit lands or tenements are held by another. The cestui que use has the right to receive the profits and benefits of the estate, but the legal

An exception to the whole panel in which the jury are arrayed, or set in order by the sheriff in his return, upon account of partiality, or some default in the sheriff,

(Lat. Campus Mali.) The field or assembly of May. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of May

in England, is an officer who seals the commissions and the mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings, and delivers their acts under the

An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192.

The word “chart,” as used in the copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gilman (C. C.) 24 Fed. 632.

Otherwise called “book-land,” is property held by deed under certain rents and free services. It, in effect, differs nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of the freehold

A kind of tenure mentioned In a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount

An agreement or composition ; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an indirect gain in point of usury, etc.; also an unlawful bargain or contract. Wharton.

In feudal law. A small rent paid to the lord paramount

In Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person’s own hand. An obligation which a person wrote or subscribed with his own hand; an acknowledgment of debt, as of

The religion founded and established by Jesus Christ. Ilale v. Everett, 53 N. H. 9, 54, 16 Am. Rep. 82; peo ple v. Ruggles, 8 Johns. (N. Y.) 297, 5 Am. Dec.

A division of the country, appointed for a particular judge to visit for the trial of causes or for the administration of justice. Bouvier. Circuits, as the term is used in England,

In Anglo-Saxon and old English law q church

The liability to be called upon to respond to an action at law for an injury caused by a crime, as opposed to criminal responsibility, or liability to be proceeded against in

To demand as one’s own; to assert a personal right to any property or any right; to demand the possession or enjoyment of something rightfully one’s own, and wrongfully withheld. Hill v.