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In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in amonastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until aboutthe time of Queen Elizabeth) to
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In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in amonastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until aboutthe time of Queen Elizabeth) to
A petty dealer and retailer of small articles of provisions, particularlyfarm and garden produce. Mays v. Cincinnati, 1 Ohio St 272; Lebanon County v. Kline,2 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 622.
In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons weredrawn to the place of execution.
In old English law. Augury; divination.
In French law. Hypothecation ; a mortgage on real property; theright vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for thepayment of his debt, whether or
A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usualrepetition of the same act or function. Knickerbocker L. Ins. Co. v. Foley, 105 U. S. 354,26 L.
Lat. This is the final agreement. The words with which the foot of a fine commenced. 2Bl. Comm. 351.
In old English law. A park Inclosed. Cowell.
In forest law. The hox- ing or hock-sinewing of dogs; an old mode oflaming or disabling dogs. Termes de la Ley.
In criminal law. Suspension by the neck ; the mode of capital punishmentused in England from time immemorial, and generally adopted in the United States. 4 Bl. Comm. 403.
See ERROR.
A place of a large receipt and safe riding of ships, so situate and secured bythe land circumjacent that the vessels thereby ride and anchor safely, and are protectedby the adjacent land
Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 43 Ala. 5S4.
An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 35.
A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes,and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present timeforward, but excludes all the past. Thomson v.
Lodgings to receive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.
Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to
In.English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to thelord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land.lleriots are divided into heriot scrviee and heriot custom.
A harrow. Spelman.
In old English law. A place of protection; a sanctuary. St. 1 Hen. VII. cc. 5,6; Cowell.