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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

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