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A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by laml or by water. Cowell.The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for

A nautical measure of six feet iu length. Occasionally used as a superficialmeasure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-sixsquare feet. Nahaolelua v.

Doer; maker. Feasors del estatute, makers of the statute. Dyer, 36. Alsoused in the compound term, “tort-feasor,” one who commits or is guilty of a tort.

A co-heir; partner of the same inheritance.

In Saxon law. A tax or Imposition, exacted for the repelling of enemies.

This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and,by a second transition, wages, reward, or fee. It was probably the original form fromwhich the words “feod,” “feudum,” “fief,” “feu,”

In old English law. A waste ground, or place where fern grows. Cowell.

An occasional early form of “feud” in the sense of private war or vengeance. Termes de la Ley. See FEUD.

In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our “cestuique trust.” It designates a person wTho has the real or beneficial interest in an estate orfund, the title or administration of

This term might well be considered as definite and certain a description as”close,” and might be used In law; but it is not a usual description in legal proceed ings.1 Chit Gen.

To make full; to complete; to satisfy or fulfill; to possess and perform theduties of.The election of a person to an office constitutes the essence of his appointment; butthe office cannot be

An absolute necessity or inevitable constraint Plowd. 94; 6 Coke, 11;Cowell.

A Turkish word denoting a decree or grant of privileges, or passport to a traveler.

A term descriptive of a bill in equity which seeks a discovery upongeneral, loose, and vague allegations. Story, Fq. PI.

A check drawn upon a banker by a person who has no funds at thebanker’s and knows that such is the case.

Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea. at flowingwater and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount.

Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.

Vagabonds. Blount.

In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, orother surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 204.

The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recoverpossession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases doesnot involve title, but is confined to the