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This word occurs frequently in the constitution of the United States, andit is there used in different meanings: (1) To settle firmly, to fix unalterably ; as toestablish justice, which is the

A species of estate in expectancy, created by operation oflaw, being the residue of an estate left in tlie grantor, to commence in possession afterthe determination of some particular estate granted out

And it is adjourned. A phrase used in the old reports, where theargument of a cause was adjourned to another day, or where a second argument washad. 1 Keb. 692, 754, 773.

And he did so. Yearb. P. 9 Hen. VI. 17.

Having the quality of evidence ; constituting evidence; evidencing. A term Introduced by Bentham, and, fromits convenience, adopted by other writers.

L. Lat. By title.

Out of purchase; founded on purchase. A term of the civil law, adoptedby Bracton. Inst. 4, 6, 28; Bract fol. 102. See ACTIO EX EMPTO.

Of his own mere motion; of his own accord; voluntarily and without prompting or request. Royal letters patent which are granted at the crown’s own instance, and without request made, are said

According to the rigor or strictness of law; in strictness of law. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 10,

In English law. A person appointed by a court to take the examination ofwitnesses in an action, i. e., to take down the result of their interrogation by the partiesor their counsel,

In old English law. A sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a sluice. Cowell.

Lat. The doing or following up of a thing; the doing a thing completelyor thoroughly; management or administration.In old practice. Execution; the final process in an action.

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.

A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & E. 509.

In old English law. Outlawry. Spelman.

Persons examined as witnesses in a cause, who testify in regard to someprofessional or technical matter arising in the case, and who are permitted to give theiropinions as to such matter on

A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars.

Soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, in distinction fromthe firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough- keepsie, 75 N. Y. 70.

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or individualpeculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from theordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental

A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having referenceeither to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs ofstate. It differs from a