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In English law. An instrument entered into between an insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such insolvent’s affairs on behalf

Lat In Roman law. The appointment of the liwrcs iu the will. It corresponds very nearly to the nomination of an executor in English law. Without such an appointment the will was

One who participates in an insurrection ; one who opposes the execu- tion of law by force of arms, or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often

Meaning; will; purpose; design. “The intention of the testator, to be collected from the whole will, is to govern, provided it be not unlawful or inconsistent with the rules of law.” 4

Between husband and wife.

The act of writing between the lines of au instrument; also what is written between lines. Morris v. Vanderen, 1 Dall. 07, 1 L. Ed. 38; Russell v. Eubanks, 84 Mo. SS.

To insert words in a complete document.

In the civil law. A notification to a party that some step in a legal proceeding is asked or will be taken. Particularly, a notice given by the party taking an appeal,

Lat. Common and ordinary duties with the lord’s court.

Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as

The minutest quantity possible. Iota is the smallest Greek letter. The word “jot” is derived therefrom.Ipsse leges cupiunt nt jure regantnr. Co. Litt. 174. The laws themselves require that they should be

Which cannot be revoked or recalled

Lat. Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quiritary owner’s repetition (iteratio) of the process effected a complete manumission. Brown.

In old English law. That which is not titheable, or liable to pay tithe. 2 Inst 490.

INDEPENDENT. Not dependent; not subject to control, restriction, modification, or limitation from a given outside source.

CYCLE OF. A mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of

He who indorses; i. e., being the payee or holder, writes his name on the back of a bill of exchange, etc.

A guard; a watchman. Domesday.

In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to

A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.