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In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings.In ecclesiastical law. An allowance for meat and drink, usually made by religiousappropriators of churches to the vicar. Also the benefaction settled

In old English law. An outlaw; qui est extra legem, one who Is out of thelaw’s protection. Bract, fol. 125. Qui benefieio legis privatur. Spelman.

In the civil law. The offense of unlawfully appropriating goods belongingto a succession. It is not technically theft (furtum) because such property no longerbelongs to the decedent, nor to the lieir, since

In old Saxon law. An elder or chief.

A right in the owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such ownership,to use the land of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general property in the

In English law. A body corporate, erected by St. 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 77. empowered to suggest measures conducive to theefficiency of the established church, to be ratified by orders

In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross ofEdinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the kingdom,but having a landed estate there, and against natives out

One who breaks through ; one who commits a burglary.

A turning out of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199.

The act of choosing or selecting one or more from a greater number of persons, things, courses, or rights. The choice of an alternative. Slate v. Tucker, 54 Ala.210.The internal, free, and

In the civil law. Accurately ; with discrimination. Veazie v. Williams, 3 Storv. 611, 636, Fed. Cas. No. 16,907

An executive proclamation, declaring that all persons heldin slavery in certain designated states and districts were and should remain free. It wasissued January 1, 1S03, by Abraham Lincoln, as president of the

One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settleelsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with him. Vat- tel, >b.1, c. 19,

In the civil law. Founded on, growing out of, or having thecharacter of, an emphyteusis; held under an emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232.

A purchase in the hope of an uncertain future profit; the purchase of a thing not yet inexistence or not yet in the possession of the seller, as, the cast of a

L. Fr. In its mother’s womb. A term descriptive of an unborn child. For some purposes the lawregards an infant en ventre as in being. It may take a legacy; have a

Object; intent. Things are construed according to the end. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 10.

In English law. The conversion of copyhold intofreehold tenure, by a conveyance of the fee- simple of the property from the lord of themanor to the copyholder, or by a release from

A species of release which inures by way of enlarging anestate, and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; asif there be tenant for life or years,

Settled or limited to specified heirs, or in tail.