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An arrangement arrived at, either in court or out of court, for settling a dispute upon what appears to the parties to be equitable terms, having regard to the uncertainty they are

A term sometimes used to characterize the transfer of title to property under the exercise of the power of eminent domain. In re Barre Water Co., 62 Vt. 27, 20 Atl. 109,

Lat We have granted. A term used in conveyances, the effect of which was to create a joint covenant on the part of the grantors

An inference drawn from the subordinate or evidentiary facts

Having the same authority ; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event; contemporaneous. As to concurrent “Covenants,” “Jurisdiction,” “Insurance,” “Lease,” “Lien,” and “Writs,” see those titles

In the civil law. The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society. An agreement or stipulation in regard to some uncertain future

The making and completion of a written instrument. 5 Coke, 1.

A diminishing confirmation. A confirmation which tends and serves to diminish and abridge the services whereby a tenant doth hold, operating as a release of part of the services. Shep. Touch. 311.

Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell.

An assembly or so- ciety of persons who together constitute the flf] principal supporters of a particular parish, or habitually meet at the same church for religious exercises. Robertson v. Bullions, 9

Relations by blood or marriage, but more commonly the relations of a person with whom one is connected by marriage. In this sense, the relations of a wife are “connections” of her

A conscientious scruple against taking an oath, serving as a juror in a capital case, doing military duty, or the like, is au objection or repugnance growing out of the fact that

Such damage, loss, or injury as does not flow directly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act. Swain v.

The state council of the Roman emperors. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In medieval law. The name given to a very high functionary under the French and English kings, the dignity and importance of whose office was only second to that of the monarch.

That which Is established by the mind of the law in Its act of construing facts, conduct, circumstances, or instruments; that which has not the character assigned to it in its own

In Roman law. During the republic, the name “consul” was given to the chief executive magistrate, two of whom were chosen annually. The otlice was continued under the empire, but its powers

Lat Contemptuously. In old English law. Contempt, contempts. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60,

In old English practice. Continuance or connection. Applied to the proceedings in a cause. Bract, fol. 3026.

Lat. Against the law of war. 1 Kent. Comm. 0.