Category: I

Burning to ashes ; destruction of a substance by fire, as, the corpse of a murdered person.

That which may be disproved or rebutted; not shutting out furtherproof or consideration. Applied to evidence and presumptions.

Any right to, or interest in, land which may subsist in third persons,to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with thepassing of the fee. Fitch

One which is usable or used only at times, and not continuously. Eaton v. Railroad Co., 51 N. H. 504, 12 Am.Rep. 147.

Lat. In the civil law. A pledge; a surety; bail or surety in a criminal proceeding or civil action. Calvin.

The English highway U acts provide that in every parish forming partof a highway district there shall annually be elected one or more waywardens. Thewaywardens so elected, aud the justicesVfor the county

In the Roman law. The iEdilitian Edict; an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales, the execution of which belonged to the curule aediles. Dig. 21, 1. See Cod. 4, 58.

An officer whose principal duties are to supply an army with provisions and stores.

Lat. Being sick or indisposed. A term used in some of the older reports. “Holt wgroto.” 11 Mod. 179.

A portion of a legislative body, comprising one or more members, who are charged with the duty of examining some matter specially referred to them by the house, or of deliberating upon

Equity is a certain perfect reason, which interprets and amends the written law, comprehended in no writing, but consisting in right reason alone. Co. Litt 246.

The production of a merchant’s books, by delivering them either to a person designated by the court, or to his adversary, to be examined in all their parts, and as shall be

Complete age ; full age ; the age of twenty-live. Dig. 4, 4, 32; Id. 22, 3, 25, 1.

The conversion of the right to receive a variable or periodical payment into the right to receive a fixed or gross payment. Commutation may be effected by private agreement, but it is

A caveat is a formal written notice given to the officers of the patent-office, requiring them to refuse letters patent on a particular invention or device to any other person, until the

A charge, preferred before a magistrate having jurisdiction, that a person named (or an unknown person) has committed a specified offense, with an offer to prove the fact, to the end that

A paper presented to a master in chancery by a party to a cause, being a written statement of the items with which the opposite party should be debited or should account

Among the Franks, Goths, Burgundlans, and other barbarous peoples, this was the name given to a sum of money paid, as satisfaction for a wrong or personal Injury, to the person harmed,

The final address made by a judge to the jury trying a case, before they make up their verdict, in which he sums up the case, and instructs the jury as to

The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society; or his status or situation, considered as a juridicial person, arising from positive law