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L. Fr. Agistment; cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also themoney received for grazing cattle.

Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell

In old English law. Earnest-money; money given as evidence of thecompletion of a bargain. This nanie is probably derived from the fact that such moneywas given to the church or distributed in

This word is commonly used in contradistinction to “right.” Thus, in St. 22Edw. III., the lord chancellor was instructed to take cognizance of matters of grace,being such subjects of equity jurisdiction as

In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnlykept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascensionday in Easter, St. John the Baptist’s day

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes definedin statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) areburied. See Stockton v. Weber, 98

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentaryelection petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons toselect committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22, $

1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private useand under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.Though this term is sometimes used in conveyances and in statutes as equivalent to”land.”

In military law. An independent body of marauders or armedmen, not regularly or organically connected with the armies of either belligerent, whocarry on a species of irregular war, chiefly by depredation and

Jutes; one of the three nations who migrated from Germany to Britain at auearly period. According to Spelman, they established themselves chiefly in Kent and the Isle of Wight.

Persons who paid gabcl. rent, or tribute. Domesday: Cowell

A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

In French law. This word corresponds to warranty or covenants for titlein English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peacefulpossession of the thing sold;

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practisedin Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish- American countries, consisting in strangulationby means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer hoc land, (book-land or land heldby charter.) The grantor was said to gebo- cidn the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10.

Lat. People. Contra omnes gentes, against all people. Bract, fol. 376.Words used in the clause of warranty In old deeds.

In Saxon law. A guest. A name given to a stranger on the second night of hisentertainment in another’s house. Tiva- night gest.

L. Fr. To lie. Gist en le louche, it lies in the mouth. Le action lien gist, theaction well lies. Gisant, lying.

In ecclesiastical law. The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiasticalbenefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an

An old form of the word “cucking-stool,” (q. v.) Cowell.