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the feast of St. John the Baptist, a festival first mentioned by Maximus Taurieensis, A. D. 400. It is generally a quarter-day for the payment of rents, etc. Wharton.

One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientific attainmeuts, or of experience in the use of machinery, are to be found iu this class, yet the

Lat. In the civil law. A lessening; diminution or reduction. Dig. 4, 5, 1.

The delivery of property by a carrier or warehouseman to a per son not authorized by the owner or person to whom the carrier or warehouseman is bound by his contract to

Pleading incorrectly, or omitting anything in pleading which is es sential to the support or defense of an action, is so called; as in the case of a plaintiff not merely stating

Alleviation; abatement or diminution of a penalty or punishment im- posed by law. “Mitigating circumstances” are such as do not constitute a justification or excuse of the offense in question, but which,

Lat. In pleading. He moderately chastised. The name of a plea in trespass which justifies an alleged battery on the ground that it consisted in a moderate chastisement of the plaintiff by

In Scotch law. A possessory action calculated for continuing pro- prietors of landed estates in the lawful possession of them till the point of right be determined against all who shall attempt

Communications of warning and admonition sent from an ecclesiastical Judge, upon information of scandal and abuses within the cognizance of his court

1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.)

A social and religious system prevailing In the territory of Utah, a distinctive feature of which is the practice of polygamy. These plural marriages are not recognized by law, but are indictable

A dead pledge; a mortgage, (q. v.;) a pledge where the profits MORTUUS 795 MOVABLE or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt

A legitimate son. Glanvil.

A municipal corporation : a city, town, borough, or incorporated village. Also the body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city.

In French law. This term is synonymous with “change,” and is especially applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission from one person

In the law of Louisiana, a closed or sealed will, required by statute to be executed in a particular manner and to be signed (on the outside of the paper or of

That form of insanity in which the patient is subject to hallucinations and illusions, accompanied by a high state of general mental excitement, sometimes amounting to fury. See Hall v. Unger, 2

An insane person, particularly one suffering from mania in any of its forms. Said to be inapplicable to idiots (Com. v. Haskell, 2 Brewst. [Pa.] 407); but it is not a technical

Great fault; gross negligence.

Suitable or admissible for transmission by the mail; belonging to the classes of articles which, by the laws and postal regulations, may be sent by post.