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In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of “example,”
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In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of “example,”
In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an Inheritance.
A term used in medical jurisprudence to denote the wound made bya weapon on the side where it emerges, after it has passed completely through thebody, or through any part of it
An ancient writ to prohibit the sheriff fromlevying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancientdemesne. Reg. Orig. 261.Experientia per varios actus legem facit. Magistra rerum
Sax. The water or river; also the mouth of a river on the shore between highand low water-mark.Ea est accipienda interpretatio, quae vitio caret. That interpretation is to be received[or adopted] which
Money given in part payment. See EARNEST.
In ecclesiastical law. An officer in cathedral churches whosupervised the regular performance of divine service, and prescribed the particularduties of each person in the choir.
General; universal; as an ecumenical council. Groesbeeck v. Dunscomb, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344.
The running of a prescribed period of time to its end; expiration by lapse oftime. Particularly applied to the termination of a lease by the expiration of the term forwhich It was
The share of the oldest son. The portion acquired by primogeniture. Termes de la Ley; Co. Litt. 1066; Cowell.
Property which is the acquisition of labor. Spelman.
The place In a religious house where the common alms weredeposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.In old English law. The aumeric, aumbry, or ambry; words still used in
The act of a wife who voluntarily deserts her husband to cohabit withanother man. 2 Bl. Comm. 130. To constitute an elopement, the wife must not onlyleave the husband, but go beyond
In old English law. Amendment, or correction. The power of amending and correcting abuses, according tocertain rules and measures. Cowell.In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury; the same as emenda,
L. Fr. Undertakers of suits. Kelham.
Iu Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his request. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70.
L. Fr. In a dead hand; in mortmain. Britt. c. 43.
In criminal law. To instigate ; to incite to action; to give courage to; toInspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident. Comitez v. Parkerson (C.C.) 50 Fed. 170; True v.
In Spanish law. Emphyteusis. (
To require; command; positively direct To require a person, by writ ofinjunction from a court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some actClifford v. Stewart, 95 Me. 38,