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An arrangement between a bankrupt and his creditors, whereby the amount he can be expected to pay is liquidated, and he is allowed to retain his assets, upon condition of his making

A public officer of a state or municipal corporation, charged with certain duties in relation to the fiscal affairs of the same, principally to examine and audit the accounts of collectors of

In Irish practice. The payment of wages in land, the rent being worked out in labor at a money valuation. Wharton. Conatus quid sit, non deiinitur in jure. 2 Bulst. 277. What

A grantee

In public law. A compact or convention between two or more independent governments. An agreement made by a temporal sovereign with the pope, relative to ecclesiastical matters. In French law. A compromise

In ecclesiastical law. The name of a plea entered by a party to a libel filed in the ecclesiastical court, in which it is pleaded that the deceased made the wili which

The conditional remission or forgiveness, by one of the married parties, of a matrimonial offense committed by the other, and which would constitute a cause of divorce; the condition being that the

In English practice. Where defendant alleges a ground of defense arising since the commencement of the action, the plaintiff may deliver confession of such defense and sign judgment for his costs up

Capable of being confiscated or suitable for confiscation; liable to forfeiture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194

The inseparable fl intermixture of property belonging to different ” owners; properly confined to the pouring together of fluids, but used in a wider sense to designate any indistinguishable compound of elements

Matrimouial rights; the right which husband and wife have to each other’s society, comfort, and affection.

In Spanish law. A bill of lading. In the Mediterranean ports it is called “poliza de caryamiento.”

A term used in conveyances under Mexican law, equivalent to the English word “grant.” Mulford v. Le Fra!: . 20 Cal. 103.

It is considered. Held to mean the same with considcratum est. 2 Strange, S74.

In the civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa.

To establish, constitute, or ordain. “Constating instruments” of a corporation are its charter, organic law, or the grant of powers to it. See examples of the use of the term. Green’s Brice,

To ravish, debauch, violate, rape. See Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 230; Koenig v. Nott, 2 Hilt. (N. Y.) 329

One capable of being transmitted by mediate or immediate contact. See Grayson v. Lynch, 163 U. S. 468, 16 Sup. Ct. 1004, 41 L. Ed. 230; Stryker v. Crane, 33 Neb. 690,

Adjacent; adjoining ; having a common boundary; coterminous

The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court, to a subsequent day of the same or another term. Com. v. Maloney, 145 Mass. 205, 13 N. E. 482; State