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In Scotch law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. Inst 4, 4, 50; Hell.

A criminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a capital offense. Spelman.

A certain weight of above 70 lbs., mentioned in 51 Hen. III. Cowell.

In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue.This term is wider in its scope than “perjury.” for the latter, as a technical term, includesthe idea

In old English forest law. The court of attachment in forests. or wood-mote court.

Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned bythe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread forbaking. Also the

A freeman. Chart. Hen. IV. A free tenant. Spelman.

See FBANK.

In early times, in English law, this term was applied to every strangeror “outlandish” man. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 15.

In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords orprincipal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract, l’ol. 1246.

Sax. In Saxon law. A chief seat, or mansion house. Cowell.

A fleam, or stream of water. Blount.

A fine or mulct paid for theft.Furiosi nulla voluntas est. A madman has no will. Dig. 50, 17, 40; Broom, Max. 314.

See ESTATE.

(Lat. I do that you may do.) A species of contract in the civil law(being one of the innominate contracts) which occurs when I agree with a man to dohis work for

In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility ; deadly feud. The worddesignated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer,which was recognized, among the Teutonic

That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Faicidian law,was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth.

In old English law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land.Cowell.

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregatesuccession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hacredcs. It was also applicableto enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on

An unlawful game of cards, In which all the other players play against thebanker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and bedealt from the