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Within the king’s ligeauce. Comb. 212.

In Roman law, ingratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, with respect to the first

That which begins or stands at the beginning. The first letter of a man’s name. See Elberson v. Richards, 42 N. J. Law, 70.

In old English law. Entangled, or ensnared. 2 Inst. 247; Cowell; Blount

So called because anciently inhabited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the court of chancery. There are nine

A more or less advanced decay and feebleness of the intellectual faculties ; that weakness of mind which, without depriving the person entirely of the use of his reasou, leaves only the

One who cannot or does not pay; one who is unable to pay his debts; one who is not solvent; one who has not means or property sufficient to pay his debts.

n. In the civil law. A person named in the will as heir, but with a direction that he shall pass over the estate to another designated person, called the “substitute.” In

The person who obtains insurance on his property, or upon whose life an insurance is effected.

1. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design ; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the

Among the illiterate or unlearned.

Lat. In the mean time; meanwhile. An assignee ad interim is one appointed between the time of bankruptcy and appointment of the regular assignee. | 2 Bell, Comm. 355. J

1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from

Lat. In the civil law. Intestate ; without a will. Calvin.

L. Lat. To drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage or pasture.

Vain; inadequate to its purpose; not of binding force or legal efficacy; lacking in authority or obligation. Ilood v. Perry, 75 Ga. 312; State v. Casteel, 110 Ind. 174, 11 N. E.

In commercial law. An account of goods or merchandise sent by mer- chants to their correspondents at home or abroad, in which the marks of each package, with other particulars, are set

A term applied to such an interposition of human agency as is. from its nature and power, absolutely uncontrollable: as the inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm.

Also; likewise; again. This word was formerly used to mark the beginning of a new paragraph or division after the first, whence is derived the common application of it to denote a

The state of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same. See 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 343; 2 Hill, Abr. 421. The word