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The hindrance or obstruction of a patron from presenting his clerk to a benefice. 3 Bl. Comm. 242; 3Steph. Comm. 514.

Eat To diviue; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, aconjecturing or guessing.Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae oninino recedit a litera. That is guessing, notinterpretation, which altogether departs from the letter. Bac.

Lat. I give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law, constituting a general division under which those contracts(termed “innominate”) were classed

In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325.

In a wide sense, the Roman law distinguishes between”good,” or rather “permissible” dolus and “bad” or fraudulent dolus. The former isjustifiable or allowable deceit; it is that which a man may employ

To establish one’s domicile ; to take up one’s fixed residence in agiven place. To establish the domicile of another person whose legal residence follows one’s own.

Eminent domain

A gift between the living. The ordinary kind of gift byone person to another. 2 Kent, Coram. 438; 2 Steph. Coram. 102. A term derived fromthe civil law. Inst. 2, 7, 2.

One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long unexecutedthat execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgmentor one

Adultery committed by two persons each of whom is married to anotheras distinguished from “single” adultery, where one of the participants isunmarried. Hunter v. IJ. S

Uncertainty of mind; the absence of a settled opinion or conviction; theattitude of mind towards the acceptance of or belief in a proposition, theory, orstatement, in which the judgment is not at

A woman entitled to dower ; a tenant in dower. 2 P. Wms. 707.

The person making a bill of exchange and addressing it to the drawee.Stevenson v. Walton, 2 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 265; Winnebago County State Bank v.Hustel, 119 Iowa, 115, 93 N. W.

In French law. Right, justice, equity, law, the whole body of law; also a right.This term exhibits the same ambiguity which Is discoverable in the German equivalent.”rccht” and the English word “right.”

A double right; that is. the right of possession and the right ofproperty. These two rights were, by the theory of our ancient law, distinct; and theabove phrase was used to indicate

One which creates a lien on land for the payment of money, but does not impose any personal liability upon the mortgagor,collateral to or over and above the value of the promises.

A tribunal of special jurisdiction, held before the chancellorof the duchy, or his deputy, concerning all matters of equity relating to lands holden ofthe crown in right of the duchy of Lancaster;

While he shall conduct himself well; during good behavior.Expressive of a tenure of office not dependent upon the pleasure of the appointingpower, nor for a limited period, but terminable only upon the

Twelve hands. The oaths of twelve men, including himself, bywhom the defendant was allowed to make his law. 3 Bl. Comm. 343.

During virginity, (so long as she remains unmarried.)