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(1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman.

In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to pro- ceed further in a cause pending before him. In this sense it is closely analogous

Bestoration to the protection of law. Bestoration from a condition of outlawry

Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incrim- inatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.

An authority given to some official person to institute an inquiry concerning the crown’s interests.

Evil advice or counsel. Cowell.

In pleading and practice. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party’s “special instance and request.” In the civil and French

In French criminal law. The first process of a criminal prosecution. It includes the examination of the accused, the preliminary interrogation of witnesses, collateral investigations, the gathering of evidence, the reduction of

Used chiefly in the law of taxation, this term means such property as has no intrinsic and marketable value, but is merely the representative or evidence of value, such as certificates of

Between other persons; between those who are strangers to a matter in question.

By way of exchange or interchange. This term properly denotes the method of signing deeds, leases, contracts, etc., executed in duplicate, where each party signs the copy which he delivers to the

In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sovereigns of two different

Interpretare et concordare leges leg- ibus, est optimiis interpretandi modus. I’D interpret, and [in such a way as] to harmonize laws with laws, is the best mode of interpretation. 8 Coke, 169a.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatus decedit, qui ant omnino test anion turn non fecit; ant non

See COMMERCE.

An encroachment upon the rights of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. Webster. See ^Etna Ins. Co. v. Boon, 95 U. S. 129, 24 L. Ed. 395. ?

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

See INJURY.

Lat. So it is; so it stands. In modern civil law, this phrase is a form of attestation added to exemplifications from a notary’s register when the same are made by the

An act against good behavior and a just delicacy. Timmons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74; McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 144; Ardery v. State, 50 Ind.