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In the civil law. The offense of extortion by threats of violence. Dig. 47, 13.

The terms upon which sales are made at auction ; usually written or printed and exposed in the auction room at the time of sale.

Lat. A confession. Con- fessio in judicio, a confession made in or before a court. Confessio facta in judicio omul pro- batione major est. A confession made in court Is of greater

The grantee in a deed of confirmation

The title of that branch of equity jurisdiction which relates to the discovery and settlement of conflicting, disputed, or uncertain boundaries.

Persons married to each other. Story, Confl. Laws,

In the civil law. Marriage. Among the Romans, a lawful marriage as distinguished from “concubiuage,” (g. v.,) which was an inferior marriage.

Drafting Into the military service of the state: compulsory service falling upon all male subjects evenly, within or under certain specified ages. Kneedler v. Lane, 45 Pa. 207.

The judgment of the court

The name of a code of sea-laws, said to have been compiled by order of the kings of Arragon (or, according to other authorities, at Pisa or Bar celona) in the fourteenth

It is clear or evident; it appears ; it is certain ; there is no doubt. Non constat, it does not appear. A certificate which the clerk of the pipe and auditors

A phrase used in the law to characterize an act not amounting to an actual appropriation of chattels, but which shows an intention to convert them to his use; as if a

In the civil law. Designedly ; intentionally. Dig. 28, 41

In parliamentary law. The “contents” are those who, in the house of lords, express assent to a bill; the “not” or “non contents” dissent. May, Pari. Law, cc. 12, 357.

It may be defined as a future interest not transmissible to the representatives of the party entitled thereto. in case he dies before it vests in possession. Thus, if a testator leaves

Against the peace. A phrase used in the Latin forms of indictments, and also of actions for trespass, to signify that the offense alleged was committed against the public peace, i. e.,

In Roman law. Contracts of good faith. Those contracts which, when brought into litigation, were not determined by the rules of the strict law alone, but allowed the judge to examine into

In French law. The offense of printing or causing to be printed a book, the copyright of which is held by another, without authority from him. Merl. Repert.

In medical jurisprudence. A bruise; an injury to any external part of the body by the impact of a fall or the blow of a blunt instrument, without laceration of the flesh,

This name is sometimes given to compacts or treaties with for eign countries as to the apprehension and extradition of fugitive offenders. See EXTBADITION