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An animal of the genus eqiuts and species cabaUus. In a narrow and strictsense, the term is applied only to the male, and only to males of four years old orthereabouts, younger

Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4.

A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used In conveying passengersand goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

In English law. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, ancientlythe suitors or judges of the hundred court. Persons impaneled or fit to be impaneledupon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within abuilding, at a time when other courts were held iu the opeu air. It was a local court.The county court iu the

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for theenforcement of the claims of a creditor by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin,336 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. Ct

Lat. (You have the body.) The name given to a variety of writs,(of which these were anciently the emphatic words,) having for their object to bring aparty before a court or judge.

By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony,having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice so convicted), or who isconvicted of a misdemeanor aud has previously (in

Lat. Iu old English law. A seeker of an inheritance; lience, the nextheir to lands.Haeredipetse suo propinquo vel e:itra- neo periculoso sane custodi nullus committatur.To the next heir, whether a relation or

A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial ofa person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of theparish of Halifax, in England,

In Saxon law. The right of security and privacy in a man’s house. DuCange. The breach of this privilege by a forcible entry of a house is breach of thepeace. Du Cange.

In old European law. An arrest, or attachment. Spelman.

In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of seisin mightanciently be made, where there was a house on the premises.

Another name for “hedge- bote,” being one of the estovers allowed to atenant for life or years, namely, material for repairing the necessary hedges or fences ofhis grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 35;

A term applied to that species of testimony given by a witness whorelates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he hasheard said by others. Ilopt

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, whobegin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape fromMecca, which happened on Friday, July 16,

A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; acomposition for eggs. Cowell.

An inn. Cowell.

Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, (profcctiomilitaris;) an expedition. Spelman.

In old English law. A species of military service, or knight’s fee.Cowell.