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A kind of dower in England, regulated by custom, where the quantity allowed the wife differed from theproportion of the common law; as that the wife should have half the husband’s lands;or,

v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture byadapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary,by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal.

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. If cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but

The right of a creditor to pursue the debtor’s property into the hands of third persons for the enforcement of his claim.

A thicket of wood in a valley. Domesday.

Doubted. Vaughan, C. J., dubitavit. Freem. 150.

The trial by battel or judicial combat. See BATTEL.

In old records. A bank of earth cast up; the side of a ditch. Cowell.

The technical fault, In pleading, of uniting two or more causes of actionin one count in a writ, or two or more grounds of defense in one plea, or two or morebreaches

In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes,charges, or governmental impositions.

In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved

The taking from one’s reputation. The offense of injuring a person’s character, fame, or reputation by false and malicious statements. The term seems to be comprehensive of both libel and slander. Printing

To prohibit or forbid. To deny. To contest and endeavor to defeat a claimor demand made against one in a court of justice. Boehmer v. Irrigation I)ist., 117 Cal.19, 48 Pac. 908.

Defender or protector of a city or municipality. An oflicer under theRoman empire, whose duty it was to protect the people against the injustice of themagistrates. the insolence of the subaltern officers,

Deforcement Is where a man wrongfully holds lands to whichanother person is entitled. It therefore includes disseisin, abatement, discontinuance,and intrusion. Co. Litt. 2776, 3316; Foxworth v. White, 5 Strob. (S. C.) 115;

Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it

In Scotch law. To erase; to strike out.

In practice. The verdict rendered by a jury.

A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property,dominicum or demesne, in the thing itself. But when he has

Lat. Description; addition; denomination. Occurring often in the phrase, “Falsa demonstratio non nocct,” (a false description does not harm.)