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A society of people living in the same place, under the same laws and regulations, and who have common rights and privileges. In re Huss, 120 N. Y. 537, 27 N. E.

A comparison by the juxtaposition of two writings, in order, by such comparison, to ascertain whether both were written by the same person. A method of proof resorted to where the genuineness

In the Roman law. The adjournment of a cause, In order to hear the parties or their advocates a second time; a second hearing of the parties to a cause. Calvin.

The statute of ells and perches. The title of an English statute establishing a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275.

A submission to arbitration.

The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimat’ng. COMPUTUS 236 CONCESSION The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell.

(lie grantee and agreed to pay.) In English law. An action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the mayor’s court, Loudon, and Bristol city court.

Shutting up a matter; shutting out all further evidence; not admitting of explanation or contradiction; putting an end to inquiry; final; decisive. Hoadley v. Hammond, 63 Iowa, 599, 19 N. W. 794;

In Scotch law. To coerce.

In the civil law. A stipulation to do a thing upon condition, as the happening of any event. As to conditional “Acceptance,” “Appearance,” “Bequest.” “Contract,” “Delivery,” “Devise,” “Fee.” “Guaranty,” “Judgment,” “Legacy,” “Limitation,”

A meeting of severnl persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences or disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the

I have confirmed. The emphatic word in the ancient deeds of confirmation. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14,

This term, as used In the civil law and in compound terms derived from that source, means a blending or intermingling, and is equivalent to the term “merger” as used at common

A slight degree of credence, arising from evidence too weak or too remote to cause belief. Weed v. Scolield, 73 Conn. 670, 49 Atl. 22. Supposition or surmise. The idea of a

In French law. An instrument similar to our bill of lading

In Scotch law. Knowledge of another’s property ; knowledge that a thing is not one’s own, but belongs to another. lie who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with “violent

Officers authorized to preserve and maintain the public peace. In England, these officers were locally elected by the people until the reign of Edward III. when their appointment was vested in the

Lat. An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic. Thomas v. Dakin, 22 Wend. (N.

In English law. The territorial jurisdiction of a constable; as bailiwick is of a bailiff or sheriff. 5 Ner. & M. 261.

Where, by a strained construction of a penal statute, it is made to include an act not otherwise punishable, it is said to be a “constructive crime,” that is, one built up