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I did not agree to these terms. Non impedit clausula derogatoria quo minus ad eadem potestate res dissol- vantur a qua constituuntur. A derogatory clause does not impede things from being dissolved

A term applied to all letters and parcels which are by law exclud ed from transportation in the United States mails, whether on account of the size of the package, the nature

As “sane,” when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a health- ful state, “non-sane” must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, impaired, shattered,

A ninlh part of movables which was paid to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretense of being dis tributed to pious uses. Blount.

A verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his innocence is not clear.

In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and

Lat. In the civil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed or damage or injury done by the slave, which

Lat. Among the property of no person.

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother,

Nominal damages are a trifling sum awarded to a plaintiff in an action, where there is no substantial loss or injury to be compensated, but still the law recognizes a technical invasion

One on which process cannot ordinarily issue or be served or returned and on which the courts do not ordinarily sit. Whitney v. Blackburn, 17 Or. 564. 21 Pac. 874, 11 Am.