CUTPURSE
One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.
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One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.
The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.
See STOCK
The rectification or rendering nugatory of a defect in the pleadings by the rendition of a verdict; the court will presume, after a verdict, that the particular thing omitted or defectively stated
In old records. A parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell.
The vear now running. Doe v. Dobcll, 1 Adol. & Eh 800; Clark v. Lancaster County, 69 Neb. 717, 96 N. W. 593.
Writs for the admitting and removing of guardians.
This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const.
In old English law. An officer in the exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc.
Where a demurrer has been filed to one or more counts in a declaration, and its consideration is postponed, and meanwhile other counts in the same declaration, not demurred to, are taken