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In English statutes. Witchcraft and sorcery.

In maritime law. The German name for the contract for the building of a vessel. This contract contains a specification of the kind of vessel intended, her dimensions, the time within which

A trespass committed by hand. See 7 Rich. II. c. 4.

A person of full age; one who is no longer a minor; one who has attained the management of his own concerns and the enjoyment of his civic rights. In military law.

Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young.

Lat. With an evil mind; with a bad purpose or wrongful intention ; with malice.

In Saxon law. A compensation or recompense for homicide, particularly due to the lord for killing his man or vassal, the amount of which was regulated by that of the were.

the statute absolutely void; if the provision is such that disregard of it will constitute an irregularity, but one not necessarily fatal, it is said to be director]/. So, the mandatory part

In Saxon law. A murderer.

Performed by the hand; used or employed by the hand; held in the hand. Thus, a distress cannot be made of tools in the “manual occupation” of the debtor.

This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that de- noted by the word “few.” Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Hall, 87 Ala. 708, 6 South. 277, 4

In Scotch law.A note inserted on the margin of a deed, embodying either some clause which was omitted in transcribing or some change In the agreement of the parties. Bell. An abstract

Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, Is the civil status of one man and one woman united in law for life, for the

In French law. The hire of a ship or boat.

In the civil law. The protocol or first draft of a legal instrument, from which all copies must be taken. See Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 53.

A tract of low or level land producing grass which Is mown for hay. Webster. A tract which lies above the shore, and is overflowed by spring and extraordinary tides only, and

Intervention; interposition ; the act of a third person who interferes between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In international

L. Fr. Minority; lesser age. Kelham.

Men who used in former days to ply about courts of law, so called from their manner of making known their occupation, (/.. e., by a straw iu one of their shoes,)

Merchantable; to be sold or bought.