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Under or within a year. Bract, fol. 7.

A breach, violation, or infringement; as of a law, a contract, a right or duty. In French law, this term is used as a general designation of all punishable actions.

An authority possessed without its being derived from another. A right, ability, or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another.

Lat. Injury; wrong; the privation or violation of right. 3 Bl. Comm. 2.

As applied to streams, not capable of or suitable for navigation ; im- passable by ships or vessels. As applied to vessels in the law of marine Insurance, it means unfit for

An intestate.

The name given by the old English law to any written instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.

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.

The underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by a contract of insurance is called the “insurer,” and the person

Lat In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the prtetor. In old English law. A count or declaration iu a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4,

Among themselves. Story, Partn.

n old practice. To link together, or interchangeably. Writs were called “interlaqueata” where several were issued against several parties residing in different counties, each party being summoned by a separate writ to

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. A witness incompetent to testify. Calvin.

Within the defenses. See INFBA PB^SIDIA.

Use; user; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 5S3, 25 L. Ed. 018. Iiiutilis labor ct sine fructu non est effectus legis. Useless

The fact by means of which a right comes into existence; e. g., a grant of a monopoly, the death of one’s ancestor. Holl. Jur. 132.

Violation or nonob- servance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either in omitting to do something that is necessary for

Lat. The cog- nizor in a fine. Is cui coynoscitur, the cog- nizee.