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One who is under pledge; one who has had sureties or pledges given for him. Spelman.

Lat. Being unwilling. Against or without the assent or consent.

That cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties. Spelled, also, “irreplevisable.” Co. Litt. 145.

Lat. In old practice. So that. Formal words iu writs. Ita quod habeas corpus, so that you have the body. 2 Mod. ISO. The name of the stipulation in a submission to

In the civil law. Not due or owing. (Dig. 12, 6.) Calvin.

To cut in a serrated or waving line. In old conveyancing, if a deed was made by more parties than one, it was usual to make as many copies of it as

Charged in an indictment with a criminal offense. See INDICTMENT.

To write a name on tie back of a paper or document Bills of exchange and promissory notes are indorsed by a party’s writing his name on the back. Hart- well v.

Disqualification or legal incapacity to be elected to an ollice. Thus, an alien or naturalized citizen is ineligible to be elected president of the United States. Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 302,

In old Scotch law. Investiture or infeudatiou, including both charter and seisin. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 110. In later law. Saisine, or the instrument of possession. Bell.

Want Of legal form. See State v. Gallimon, 24 N. C. 377; Franklin r. Mackey, 1G Serg. & It. (Pa.) 118; Hunt v. Curry, 37 Ark. 108.

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.