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Wasteful use of the property of a deceased person, as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessaryexpenses. 2 Bl. Comm. 508.

To pass or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, oraccrue to, one person as the successor of another; as, a title, right, office, liability. Theterm is said to

In Louisiana, this term is used in a technical sense, and means to pronounceorally what is destined to be written at the same time by another. It is used inreference to nuncupative

In the civil law. Holidays. Dig. 2, 12, 2, 9.

In an agreement for submission to arbitration, “difference” meansdisagreement or dispute. Fravert v. F’esler, 11 Colo. App. 387, 53 Pac. 288; PioneerMfg. Co. v. Phcenix Assur. Co., 106 N. C. 28, 10

(Fr. De lege efectus, Lat.) Outlawed.

In mining law. The line of declination of strata; the angle which measures thedeviation of a mineralized vein or lode from the vertical plane; the slope or slant of avein, away from

The want of legal ability or capacity to exercise legal rights, eitherspecial or ordinary, or to do certain acts with proper legal effect or to enjoy certainprivileges or powers of free action.

In Roman law. The argument of a cause by the counsel on both sides. Calvin.

In the civil law. A proceeding, at the instance of a surety, by which the creditor is obliged to exhaust theproperty of the principal debtor, towards the satisfaction of the debt before

Lat. In the civil law. Separately; severally. The opposite of conjunct im, (q. v.) Inst. 2, 20, 8.

To connect unequally; to match unsuitably

Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant andregain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of theconditions of the lease. Of local origin and colloquial use

A woman who unlawfully puts another out of his land.

To take as a pledge property of another, and keep the same until heperforms his obligation or until the property is replevied by the sheriff. It was used tosecure an appearance in

By the English judicature act, 1873, $ CO, it is provided that to facilitate proceedings in country districts the crownmay, from time to time, by order in council, create district registries, and

A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written inFrench in the reign of Edward III. as is supposed, and by some attributed to Fitzherbert.It was first printed in 1525, and again in

Lat A divided jurisdiction. Applied, e. g., to the jurisdiction ofcourts of common law and equity over the same subject. 1 Kent, Comm. 300; 4 Steph. Comm. 9.

An attorney’s fee, of a fixed sum. chargeable with oras a part of the costs of the action, for the attorney of the successful party ; so calledbecause chargeable on the docket,

A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the generalsignification of share, portion, or the like; as “to dole out” anything among so manypoor persons, meaning