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To be torn In pieces by horses. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 37.

In practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatiseon the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others toRichard Fitz Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of

The day begins ; dies venit, the day has come.Two expressions in Roman law which signify the vesting or fixing of an interest, and the interest becoming a present one. Sandars’ Just.

In old English law. A solar day, as distinguished from what was called “dieslunaris,” (a lunar day;) both composing an artificial day. Bract, fol. 264. See DAY.

Judicial decision or determination

A government of two persons.

One which is absolute and unconditional as to the time, amount, and thepersons by whom and to whom it is to be made. People v. Boy- Ian (C. C.) 25 Fed. 595.See

In ecclesiastical law. This is where the appropriation of abenefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by the corporation whichhas the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 385.

In a general sense, an allowance or deduction made from a gross sumon any account whatever. In a more limited and technical sense, the taking of Interestinadvance.By the language of the commercial

In mercantile law and usage. To refuse or decline to accept a bill ofexchange, or to refuse or neglect to pay a bill or note at maturity. Shelton v. Braithwaite,7 Mees. &

Contrary to the rules of good order and behavior; violative of the public peace or good order; turbulent, riotous, or indecent.

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to theconveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, howeverclear may be the meaning of the party. Paters.

In old Scotch law. Disseisin ; dispossession. Skene.

The strict meaning of “distillery” is a place orbuilding where alcoholic liquors are distilled or manufactured ; not every building wherethe process of distillation is used. Atlantic Dock Co. v. Lihbv, 45

The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears tothem to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases inwhich

Interruption of the peace, quiet, and good order of a neighborhood or community, particularly by unnecessary anddistracting noises. City of St. Charles v. Meyer, 58 Mo. 89; Yokum v. State (Tex. Cr.

As distinguished from those of human origin, divine laws are those ofwhich the authorship is ascribed to God, being either positive or revealed laws or thelaws of nature. Mayer v. Probe, 40

Lat I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make[for me.] A formula in the civil law, under which those contracts were classed in whichone party

In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender againstvenison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a houndled in his hand; or