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In public law, the organic and fundamental law of a nation or state, which may be written or unwritten, establishing the character and conception of its government, laying the basic principles to

The custom of England; the ancient common law. as distinguished from lex, the Roman or civil law

Knowledge of. and action with reference to. an existing or contemplated state of insolvency, with a design to make provision against its results or to defeat the operation of the insolvency laws.

In Spanish law. Con- tlnency or unity of the proceedings in a cause. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 6, c. 1.

Against, confronting, opposite to; on the other hand; on the contrary. The word is used in many Latin phrases, as appears by the following titles. In the books of reports, contra, appended

Consensual contracts are such as are founded upon and completed by the mere agreement of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the obligation. Real contracts are

An officer of the exchequer that writeth out summons twice every year, to the sheriffs, to levy the rents and debts of the pipe. Blount.

In old English law. The controlling or checking of another officer’s account; the keeping of a counter-roll.

In civil and old English law. It is agreed; it was agreed.

One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine titles to real estate. 14 St. at Large, 118. He who draws conveyances;

A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom.

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court.

A species of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a

Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexual intercourse ; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. GrifTeth v. Griffeth, 162 111. 308, 44 N. E. 820;

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Illegality; a vicious and fraudulent intention to evade the prohibitions of the law. The act of an official or fiduciary person who unlawfully and wrongfully uses his station or character to procure

The cost of an article purchased for exportation is the price paid, with all Incidental charges paid at the place of exportation. Goodwin v. U. S., 2 Wash. C. C. 493, Fed.

A cottager or cottage-holder who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell

Counting upon a statute consists in making express reference to it, as by the words “against the form of the statute” (or “by the force of the statute”) “in such case made

The act of forging.