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In French mercantile law. Damaged goods.

Relating to, or connected with, the status of marriage; pertaining to a husband; incident to a husband.

Lat. To run by its own force. A term applied in the civil law to a suit when it ran Its course to the end without any impediment Calvin.

Lat. A maxim of the French law, signifying that property of a decedent acquired by him through his mother descends to the relations on the mother’s side.

Fr. In spite of; against the will of. Litt. S 672. MAUNDY THURSDAY 767 MEANDER

Norman-French for a house. Litt.

In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Kames, Eq. 14, 15.

In Scotch law. Improvements of an estate, other than mere re- pairs; betterments. 1 Bell, Comm. 73. Occasionally used in English and American law in the sense of valuable and lasting improvements

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A month. Mentis vetitus, the prohibited month; fence-month, (q. v.)

A hirer; one that hires.

In old English law. A stone for bounding or dividing lands. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 5.

In English law. The method of communicating between the sovereign and the house of parliament. A written message under the royal sign-manual is brought by a member of the house, being a

In patent law. “Engine” and “method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent. Method, pivperly speaking, is only placing several things, or performing several operations, in the

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A plowman. Cowell. Minatnr innocentibns qui parcit no- centibus. 4 Coke, 45. He threatens the Innocent who spares the guilty.

In measures of time or circumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree. In practice. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the

In practice. An improper continuance; want of proper form in a continuance; the same with “discontinuance.” Cowell.

Delusive; calculated to lead astray or to lead into error. Instructions which are of such a nature as to be misunderstood by the jury, or to give them a wrong impression, are

The proper style of the wife of an esquire or a gentleman in England.

A pattern or representation of something to be made. A fac simile Of some MODERAMEN INCULPATJ2 787