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In Scotch law. By this clause, in a deed or settlement, the acts or deeds of a tenant for life or other proprietor, contrary to the conditions of his right, become null

It is a rule of equity that a plaintiff must come with “clean hands,” i. e., he must be free from reproach in his conduct. But there is this limitation to the

The having the head shaven, which was formerly peculiar to clerks, or persons in orders, and which the coifs worn by serjeants at law are supposed to have been introduced to conceal.

See CROWN OFFICE IN CHANCERY

A gaol; a prison or dungeon

One who is a joint administrator with one or more others

A boatman ; a cockswain. Cowell.

The old code. The first edition of the Code of Justinian; now lost. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In Scotch practice. A name given to a judgment or decree pronounced by a court, ascertaining the amount of a debt against the estate of a deceased landed proprietor, on cause shown,

The trial which was anciently used for the common sort of people, who, having a cord tied about them under their arms, were cast into a river ; if they sank to

In the civil law. The collation of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of

tum. One which abused its right, or assembled for any other purpose than that expressed in its charter.

The appearance or semblance, without the substance, of legal right. McCain v. Des Moines, 174 U. S. 108, 19 Sup. Ct. (H4, 43 L. Ed. 936

A trust, pool, or other association of two or more individuals or corporations having for its object to monopolize the manufacture or traflic in a particular commodity, to regulate or control the

An order, imperative direction, or behest. State v. Maun, 2 N. C. 4; Barney v. Hayes, 11 Mont. 571, 29 Pac. 282, 28 Am. St. Rep. 495.

Commerce between citizens of the United States and citizens or subjects of foreign governments; commerce which, either immediately or at some stage of its progress, is extraterritorial. U. S. v. Hollidav, 3

In French law. Auctioneers, who possess the exclusive right of selling personal property at public sale in the towns in which they are established; and they possess the same right concurrently with

In English ecclesiastical law. A commission formerly sometimes granted in extraordinary cas es. to revise the sentence of the court of delegates. 3 I!l. Comm. 67. Now out of use, the privy

The compensation or reward paid to a factor, broker, agent, bailee, executor, trustee, receiver, etc., when the same is calculated as a percentage on the amount of his transactions or the amount

A right annexed to the possession of arable land, by which the owner is entitled to feed his beasts on the lands of another, usually of the owner of the manor of