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In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy.

In Scotch law. A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died. Ersk. Inst. .”., 8, 90. A deed is understood to be in death-bed,

In the civil and old English law. A debtor.

The ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten Words,” hence the name.

It behoves, Indeed, the prince to keep the laws by which he himself Is preserved.

A declaration made by an alien, as a preliminary to naturalization, before a court of record, to the effect that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the

In English practice. The plea of sanctuary, or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. 2 Hale, P. C. 236; 4 Bl. Comm. 333. Now abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 400, note;

One entered in a court of equity in favor of the complainant where the defendant has made no answer to the bill and its allegations are consequently taken “as confessed.” Ohio Cent.

Gratian’s decree, or deeretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as

A sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs.A writing containing a contract