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An ancient duty in London under which the twentieth part of salt imported by aliens was taken.

A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United Statestreasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employediu testimony by way of description. Is

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king’s wardrobe.

v. To undertake collaterally to answer for the payment of another’s debtor the performance of another’s duty, liability, or obligation; to assume the responsibilityof a guarantor; to warrant See GUARANTY, n.

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed

Wandering monks.

Profits; winnings; increment of value. Gray v. Darlington, 15 Wall. 65, 21L. Ed. 45; Thorn v. De Breteuil, SO App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 840.

In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyedby husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolutionof the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright

L. Fr. Custody; wardship.

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws,appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, andother liquids, and to give them a mark of

The usual commons In a religious house, distinguished from pietan- tiw,which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell.Generale dictum generaliter est inter- pretandum. A general expression is to beinterpreted generally.

In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial officer of high antiquityin England; answering to the grave or graf (gra/io) of the early continental nations. Theterm was applied to various grades

The stream of water to a mill. Mon. Angl. torn. 3.

A sword, lance, or horseman’s staff. One of the weapons allowed in a trial by combat.

It was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offenderto be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It is animmemorial

In old English law. A breach in a bank or sea wall, or a passage worn by theflux and reflux of the sea. St. If! & 17 Car. II. c. 11.

In England, this term designates a school in which such instructionis given as will prepare the student to enter a college or university, and in thissense the phrase was used in the

A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, givenvoluntarily, without solicitation or promise.

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.