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A keeper or warden of a prison or jail.

Fr. In French law. Jettison. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 8; Emerig. Traite des Assur. c. 12,

A freehold estate in lands or tenements secured to the wife, and to take effect on the decease of the husband, and to continue during her life at the least, unless she

The official and authentic decision of a court of justice upon the re- spective rights and claims of the parties to an action or suit therein litigated and sub- mitted to its

An acre. Co. Litt. 5b. As much as a yoke (jugurn) of oxen could plow in one day.

Lat. To swear; to take an oath. Jurare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actns divini cultus. 3 Inst. 105. To swear is to call God to witness, and is an

The philosophy of law, or the science which treats of the principles of positive law and legal relations. “The term is wrongly applied to actual systems of law, or to current views

In the civil law. The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another.

The right of disposing. An expression used either generally to signify the right of alienation, as when we speak of depriving a married woman of the jus disponendi over her separate estate,

The body of Roman law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme magistrates, particularly the praetors.

The unwritten law. 1 Bl. Comm. 64.

Public law, or the law relating to the constitution and functions of government and its officers and the administration of criminal justice. Also public ownership, or the paramount or sovereign territorial right

Right; in accordance with law and justice. “The words ‘just’ and ‘justly’ do not always mean ‘just’ and ‘justly’ in a moral sense, but they not unfrequently, in their connection with other

Lat. In the civil law. A suspension or intermission of the administration of justice in courts; vacation time. Calvin.