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In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell.
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In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell.
Larceny.
The cutting several claws of the forefeet of dogs in the forest, to prevent their running at deer.
1. A treaty of alliance between different states or parties. It may be offensive or defensive, or both. It is offensive when the contracting parties agree to unite in attacking a common
In mining law. This term, as used in the mining laws of the United States (Rev. St
his representatives and to exercise his jurisdiction in countries where the Roman Catholic Church is established by law.
An officer under the Saxon government, who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH.
Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 4, art. 1.
In Roman law. A husband’s brother; a wife’s brother-in-law. Calvin.
Lat. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin. In old English law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels
In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling.
To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase “an action will uot lie” means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no
To tie or bind. Rraet. fol. 3096. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.
Enamel. Du Cange.
Lat. In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another: particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued in respect to it by a
Lat. The measure of damages.
is an agreement by which one person delivers to another a certain quantity of things which are consumed by the use, under the obligation, by the borrower, to return to him as
Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieuteuant, or representative.
A name given to tbe merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe.
The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 1S9. -Low-water mark. See WATER-MARK.