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A trade or calling. Cowell.

A kind of cloth made in England, mentioned in St. 23 Eliz. c. 9.

The half of anything. Joint tenants are said to hold by moieties. Litt. 125; 3 C. B. 274, 283.

Ministers of the mint; also bankers. Cowell.

In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, 5 1.

A gift on the moruiug after the wedding; dowry; the husband’s gift to his wife on the day after the wedding. Du Cange; Cowell.

A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of

A penalty or punishment imposed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary flue or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 119 Iowa, 384, 93

n old French law. A tribute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorial avouds and vidamcs, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Leet. 230.

To assemble together troops and their arms, whether for inspection, drill, or service in the field. To take recruits into the service in the army and inscribe their names on the muster-roll

Eat. In the law of bailments. A loan for consumption ; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind

A term used to designate tlie idea or subject to which is confined the derangement of the mental faculties of one suffering from monomania. Owing’s Case, 1 island (Md.) 3SS, 17 Am.

The great charter. The uame of a charter (or constitutional en- actment) granted by King John of England to the barons, at Runnyruede, on June 15, 1215, and afterwards, with some alterations,

In old English law. Mayhem, (q. v.) Maihemiumest homicidium inchoa- tum. 3 Inst.118. Mayhem is incipient homicide. Maihemiumest inter crimina majora minimnm, etinter minora maximum. Co. Litt. 127. Mayhem is the least

In criminal law. One that maintains or seconds a cause depending in suit between others, either by disbursing money or making friends for either party towards his help. Blount. One who is

In old practice. The formality of denying a plaintiff’s charge under oath, in open court, with compurgators. One of the ancient methods of trial, frequently, though inaccurately, termed “waging law,” or “wager

The wrongful or unjust doing of some act which the doer has no right to perform, or which he has stipulated by contract not to do. It differs from “mis- feasance” and

In old English law. Ill will; crimes and misdemeanors; malicious practices. Cowell.

A clerk of the kitchen, or caterer, especially in colleges. Cowell.

In maritime law. A sea- letter ; a written document required to he carried by merchant vessels, containing an account of the cargo, with other particulars, for the facility of tbe customs