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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.

This word has been held to have “a very large retrospect, as we say ‘lately deceased’ of one dead ten or twenty years.” Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A robber. Dig. 50. 10, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38.

In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 1.

Among the various cases that are argued and determined in the courts, some, from their important character, have demanded more than usual attention from the judges, and from this circumstance are frequently

In Spanish law. A person appointed by competent authority to read and decipher ancient writings, to the end that they may be presented on the trial of causes as documents entitled to

Lat. In tlxe civil law. One to whom a thing is bequeathed; a legatee or legatary. lust. 2, 20, 2, 4, 5, 10; Bract, fol. 40. In old European law. A legate,

Lat In Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq.

An inferior officer in forests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. Wharton.

Lat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about the origin of the expression; but all agree that its general meaning

adj. Lat. free; open and accessible, as applied to courts, places, etc.; ot the state or condition of a freeman, as applied to persons.

In old English law. Free socage. Bract, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 01, 02.

In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a