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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.

A contract of record is one which has been declared and adjudicated by a court having jurisdiction, or which is entered of record in obedience to, or in carrying out, the judgments

A right or equity, In another person, which is inconsistent with and opposed to the equity sought to be enforced or recognized.

In Roman law. The marriage of slaves; a permitted cohabitation.

In the civil law. The agreement between the two parties to a contract upon the sense of the contract proposed. It is an essential part of the contract, following the pollicitation or

In practice. In a general sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends in a judgment or sentence that the prisoner is guilty as charged. Finding a person guilty by verdict

A partnership

The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested,

In old English law. A corody

Bodily touch; actual physical contact; manual apprehension.

(Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles;) physical substance, as distinguished from intellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or income. A

A mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man. the best or second-best beast was. according to custom, offered or presented to the priest, and

A pecuniary allowance, made to the successful party, (and recoverable from the losing party,) for his expenses in prosecuting or defending a suit or a distinct proceeding within a suit. Apperson v.