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A claimant. A debt; anything claimed from another. A proclamation; an accusation. Du Cange.

The transfer of the title of land from one person or class of persons to another. Klein v. McNamara, 54 Miss. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 180, 12 S. W.

A person employed in a public office, or as an officer of a court, whose duty is to keep records or accounts.

A crime which entails in- famv upon one who has committed it. Butler v. Wentworth, 84 Me. 25. 24 Atl. 456, 17 L. R. A. 764. The term “infamous”

A person employed by a merchant, or in a mercantile establishment, as a salesman, book-keeper, accountant, amanuensis, etc., invested with more or less authority in the administration of some branch or department

Such as is carried on between individuals within the same state, or between different parts of the same state. Lehigh Val. Ii. Co. v. Pennsylvania. 145 U. S. 192. 12 Sup. Ct.

Commerce between states or nations entirely foreign to each other. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Tennessee R. R. Com’n (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701

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

The holder of an iu- cumbrauce, e. y., a mortgage, on the estateof another. De Voe v. Bundle, 33 Wash. 004, 74 Pac. S30; Shaeffer v. Weed, 8 111.514; Newhall v. Insurance

An Indemnity Is a collateral contract or assurance, by which one person engages to secure another against an anticipated loss or to prevent him from being damnified by the legal consequences of

Signs; indications. Circumstances which point to the existence of a given fact as probable, but not certain. For example, “indicia of partnership” are any circumstances which would induce the belief that a

As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or

INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES. Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain