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The instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is authorized by the probate court, surrogate, or other proper officer, to have the charge and administration of the goods and chattels of an

A communication from one person to another, advising or warning the latter of something which he ought to know, and commonly apprising him beforehand of some act done by the writer which

One appointed to act as the representative of a corporation and transact its business generally (or business of a particular character) at a given place or within a defined district. See Frick

That measure of obedience which is due from a subject of one government to another government, within whose territory he is temporarily resident.

A power of attorney; a written instrument by which one person constitutes another his true and lawful attorney, in order that the latter may dc lor the former, and in his place

One which is undertaken upon a consideration and for which a payment or recompense is to be made to the bailee, or from which he is to derive some advantage. Prince v.

See LAW. Citationes non concedantur priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri debet citatio. Citations should not be granted before it is stated about what matter the citation is to be made. A

A company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he cannot be called on to contribute beyond the amount of

An open or sealed letter, from a merchant in one place, directed to another, in another place or country, requiring him, if a person therein named, or the bearer of the letter,

See LINE.

1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends.

In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, 1. 354.

Fr. In French marine law. A pilot Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 3.

A landlord; a lord of the soil.

The act of stoning a person to death.

Defunct: existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly ; recently; lately

Lat. In the civil law. A bearer ; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest aud other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they

Where a deed was executed before the levy of a fine of land, for the purpose of specifying to whose use the fine should inure, it was said to “lead” the use.

A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of certain manors. 4 Inst. 206.