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In conveyancing. A mutual grant of equal Interests, (in lauds or tenements,) the one in consideration of theother. 2 Bl. Comm. 323; Windsor v. Collin- son, 32 Or. 297, 52 Pac. 26;

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese; alsoleave to go out generally.

An official transcript of a document from public records. made In form to be used as evidence, aud authenticated as a true copy.

In the civil law. One disinherited. Vicat; Du Cange.

Lat It goes forth. This word is used In docket entries as a brief mention of theissue of process. Thus, “exit fi. fa.” denotes that a writ of fieri facias has been

Paymasters. Those who expend or disburse certain taxes. Especiallythe sworn officer who supervised the repairs of the banks of tbe canals in ItomneyMarsh. Cowell.

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.