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In English law. The getting into one’s possession, or buying up, largequantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The totalengrossing of any other commodity, with intent

In legislative practice, a bill which has been duly introduced, finallypassed by both houses, signed by the proper oliicers of each, approved by the governor(or president) and filed by the secretary of

To solicit, persuade, or procure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N.Y.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich. 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State. 71 Neb. 651, 99

Lat. On that day; on the same day.

A letter; a charter; an instrument in writing for conveyance of lands orassurance of contracts. Calvin; Spelman.

A maple tree. Not to be confounded with arabilis, (arable land.)

Lat Erroneously; through error or mistake.

Fr. Fraud, swindling, cheating.

That which is indispensable to that of which it is the essence.

An estate which several persons hold as one heir,whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of time, title, and iwssession;but the interests of the coparceners may be unequal. 1

v. To take out a forfeited recognizance from the records of a court, andreturn it to the court of exchequer, to be prosecuted. See ESTREAT, n.

And this he prays may be inquired of by the country. The conclusion of a plaintiff’s pleading, tendering an Issueto the country. 1 Salk. 6. Literally translated in the modern forms.

In reference to judicial and quasi judicial proceedings, the “event” meansthe conclusion, end, or final outcome or result of a litigation; as, in the phrase “abidethe event,” speaking of costs or of

a:. By or with the consent of the court.

From or as a debt of justice; in accordance with the requirementof justice; of right; as a matter of right The opposite of ex gratia, (q. v.) 3 Bl.Comm. 48, 07.

According to the laws, yA phrase of the civil law, which means ac- H cording to the inteut or spirit of the law, aswell as according to the words or letter. Dig.

Of malice aforethought. Reg. Orig. 102.

The wrongful act of an officer or other person in compelling payment of a fee or reward for his services, under color of his official authority, where no payment Is due. Between

When a defendant pleaded to an action of assault that the plaintiff trespassedon his land, and he would not depnrt when ordered, whereupon he, mollitcrmanus imposuit, gently laid hands on him, the

To seize and detain by law.