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In sales at auction, when the minimum amount which the ownerwill take for the article is written on a piece of paper, and placed by the owner under acandlestick, or other thing,

The same as “double” taxation. See DOUBLE.

A county palatine in England, the jurisdiction of which was vested in theBishop of Durham until the statute 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 19, vested it as a separatefranchise and royalty

In medical jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain the act of sexual intercourse except with great difficulty and pain.

Judges in the Isle of Man, who decide all controversies without process, writings, or any charges. TheseJudges are chosen by the people, and are said by Spelman to be two in number.

Lacking in some particular which is essential to the completeness, legalsufficiency, or security of the object spoken of; as, a “defective” highway or bridge,(Munson v. Derby, 37 Conn. 310, 9 Am. Rep.

A war in defense of, or for the protection of, national rights. Itmay be defensive iu its principles, though offensive in its operations. 1 Kent, Comm. 50, note.

The final judgment, decree, or sentence of an ecclesiastical court. 3 Bl. Comm. 101.

Reviling; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public.

the high conrt of. In English law. Formerly the court of appeal from theecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Abolished upon the judicial committee of the privycouncil being constituted the court of appeal in

In medical jurisprudence. A form of mental aberration incident to fevers, and sometimes to the last stages of chronic diseases.

Of unsound mind.

In military law. The dismissal of an army or body of troops from active service.

(Lat “God’s penny.”) Earnest money; money given as a token of thecompletion of a bargain. It differs from arrliw in this: that arrhx is a part of theconsideration, while the denarius Dei

In old English law. The hedge inclosing a deer park.

In practice. In ancient usage, to testify as a witness; to give evidenceunder oath. In modern usage. To make a deposition ; to give evidence in the shape of a deposition; to

Seems to mean, literally, to confound aud disorder, or to turn out ofcourse, or displace; as deraignmeut or departure out of religion, in St. 31 lieu. VIII. c.6. In the common law,

To leave or quit with an intention to cause a permanent separation; toforsake utterly ; to abandon.

The act of betrothing persons to each other.

In the civil law. That con dition of fact under which one can exercise hispower over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. It forms thesubstance of