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Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in

Lat. A writ of execution directing the sheriff to cause to be made of the lands and chattels of the judgment debtor the sum recovered by the judgment. Pentland v. Kelly, 6

Defamatory; of the nature Of a libel; constituting or involving libel.

Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called “servitium liberum armorum.” Jacob. Service not unbecoming the character of a freeman and a soldier to perform ; as

Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; to make several bids, one above another. Calvin.

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster.

In old English law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell.

This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 80 N.

A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1708,

An oflicer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff. Wharton.

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to

A lottery Is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by ? chance among persons who have paid, or J LOU LE LEY DONE CHOSE 740

A mournful inheritance. See H^EKEDITAS LUCTUOSA.

A phrase applied to incorporeal rights, incapable of manual tra- dition, and which must pass by mere delivery of a deed.

An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such as, having served in the winter, refus- ed to serve

Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated “quadragesimalia.” Wharton.

A sheep, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216.

Sax. In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman.

Lat. In the civil law. A stone-quarry. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 2.