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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

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 medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or

In the law of evidence. Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres.

During madness; while in a state of insanity. Bract fol. 196.

(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