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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

A deed to which two or more persons are parties, and in which these enter into reciprocal and corresponding grants or obligations towards each other; whereas a deed-poll is properly one in

A person indicted.

The person to whom a bill of exchange, promissory note, bill of lading, etc., is assigned by indorsement, giving him a right to sue thereon.

Disqualified to be elected to an office; also disqualified to hold an office if elected or appointed to it. State v. Murray, 28 Wis. 99, 9 Am. Rep. 4S9. Inesse potest donation!,

Lat. An expression applied to a court when it suggested to an advocate something which he had omitted through mistake or ignorance. Spelman.

In practice. An accusation exhibited against a person for some criminal offense, without an indictment. 4 Bl. Comm. 308. An accusation in the nature of an indictment, from which it differs only

Within the bounds or limits. Infra metas forcstai, within the bounds of the forest. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41,

These words express the right of a lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question.

In Scotch law. Preliminaries of testimony. The preliminary examination of a witness, before examining him in chief, answering to the voir dire of the English law, though taking a somewhat wider range.

In old European law. To confederate; to join in a league, (in ligam coirc.) Spelman.

These are certain private unincorporated associations, in the na- ture of collegiate bouses, located in London, and invested with the exclusive privilege of calling men to the bar; that is, conferring the

Lat. In the civil law. A written accusation in which the accuser un- dertakes to suffer the punishment appropriate to the offense charged, if the accused is able to clear himself of

A name sometimes given to text-books containing the elementary principles of jurisprudence, arranged in an orderly and systematic manner. For example, the Institutes of Justinian, of Gaius, of Lord Coke.