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He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an in- dividual.

In Scotch law. The happening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void.

Wandering; traveling; applied to justices who make circuits. Also applied in various statutory and municipal laws (in the sense of traveling from place to place) to certain classes of merchants, traders, and

A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue are referred to, but at any subsequent period, however remote. 1 Steph. Comm. 562. A failure of issue

That which is uncertain, or not particularly designated; as if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat 1 Bouv. Inst, no. 950.

In old English law. A subject born; one born within tbe realm, or naturalized by act of parliament Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of “alieniyena,” (q. v.)

In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it. In criminal evidence. Motive; that which leads or tempts to the

Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by law as the consequence of crime; in- famia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of

One who, iu relation to another, has less power and is below him ; one who is bound to obey another, lie who makes the law is the superior; he who is

Where a man doing a lawful act without intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another.

Within the realm.

The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that it may be executed or put to its final purpose.

Fr. In French law. Grievous insults or injuries, Including personal insults and reproachful language, constituting a just cause of divorce. Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas. (Pa.) 344.

In insurance law. The condition of being innavigable, (q. v.) The foreign writers distinguish “innaviga- bility” from “shipwreck.” 3 Kent, Comm. 323, and note. The term is also applied to the condition

Lat. Destitute of counsel; without legal counsel. A term applied to the acts or condition of one acting without legal advice, as a testator drafting his own will.

Lat. Highwaymen ; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor.

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

To convey information as a client to an attorney, or as au attorney to a counsel; to authorize oue to appear as advocate ; to give a case in charge to the

emporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it. Elton,

Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enaetatum fuit, among other things it was