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The right of voting at public elections; the privilege of qualified voters to cast their ballots for the candidates they favor at elections authorized by law.Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 031. 13

As applied to a candidate for an elective office, this term means capableof being chosen ; the subject of selection or choice; and also implies competency tohold the office if chosen. Demaree

The fraudulent appropriation to his own use or benefit of property or money in trusted to him by another, by a clerk, agent, trustee, public officer, or other person acting in a

Eminent domain is the right of the people or government to take private property for public use. Code Civ. rroc. Cal.

In Spanish law. A summons or citation, issued by authority of ajudge, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to appear before the tribunal at adesignated day and hour.

In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49.

In Saxon law. The satisfaction for a crime; the recompense for a fault. Skene.

In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the muscular tissue of the heart.

L Fr. England.

Aggravated. “So enormous a trespass.” Yaughan, 115. Written”enormious,” in some of the old books. Enor- mious is where a thing is made without arule or against law. Brownl. pt. 2, p. 19.

In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it In strict usage, the enteringis preliminary to the taking possession but In common parlance

A warehouse or magazine for the deposit of goods. In France, a buildingor place where goods from abroad may be deposited, and from whence they may bewithdrawn for exportation to another country.

The office of overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop, who isto overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government bydiocesan bishops. Trustees of Diocese of

In old English law. Traveling furniture, or riding equipments, includinghorses, horse harness, etc. Reg. Orig. 100&; St. Westm. 2, c. 39.

In old English law. The loose scattered ears of corn that are left on theground after the binding.

In old English law. A jury or inquisition.

An old term for the products which the ground or land yields; as the hayof the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn of arable fields, rent and services,etc. The word has

L. Fr. A standard, (of weights and measures.) So called because itstands constant and immovable, and hath all other measures coming towards it fortheir conformity. Termes de la Ley.

To stop, bar, or impede; to prevent ; to preclude. Co. Litt 352a. See ESTOPPEL.

L. Fr. And of this they put themselves upon the country.