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In medicine. That system followed by physicians who selecttheir modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster.”Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose thatthe terms ‘allopathic practice’ and

The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results;an intervening cause, which produces results which would not have come to passexcept for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who

A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, theword is written “irenareha.” Eisdem modis dissolvitur obligatio quae nascitur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibuscontrahitur. An obligation which arises

Of the same kind, class, or nature.In statutory construction, the “ejusdem generis rule” is that where general words follow an enumeration of persons or things, by words of a particular and specific

A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel, c. 1.

In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of thereturn made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had beeneloigned; that is,

An old word still made use of in the accounts of the society of the InnerTemple, where so much in cmcndals at the foot of an account on the balance thereofsignifies so

In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament. Euc. Loud.

This word does not necessarily import an engagement or rendering services for another. A person may as well be “employed” about his own business as in the transaction of the same for

Span. Judicially; in a court of law; in a suit at law. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. a c. 1.

In the Scotch law. To shut up a jury after the case has been submitted to them. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 634. See INCLOSE.

To Invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corpon ahereditaments to another. See FEOFFMENT.

This word, taken tn an unqualified sense, is synonymous with “increased,”and comprehends any increase of value, however caused or arising. Thornliurnv. Doscher (C. C.) 32 Fed. 812.

In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery,king’s bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the recordsof the quarter sessions, of any

Whole; without division, separation or diminution.

Lat. At that instant; at the very or same Instant; immediately. 1 Bl.Comm. 196, 249 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 168; Co. l.itt. 208a; 1 Coke. 138.

In the civil law. Rescripts ; opinions given by the emperors in cases submittedto them for decision.Answers of the emperors to petitions.The answers of counsellors, (juris-consul- it,) as Ulpian and others, to

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England,particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offensesagainst religion and morality should be punished by the civil

A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of mattersof fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law.Such a mistaken or false conception or

Robbers, or destroyers of other men’s lands and fortunes. Cowell.