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The directions as to the course and purpose of a voyage given by the owner of the vessel to the captain or master. For other meanings, see ORDER.

To establish or furnish with organs; to systematize; to put into working order; to arrange in order for the normal exercise of its appropriate functions. The word “organize,” as used in railroad

Lat. In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38.

At a time when no term of the court is beiug held; in the vacation or interval which elapses between terms of the court. See McNeill v. Hodges, 99 N. C. 248,

Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another. See McKinley v. Railroad Co., 44 Iowa, 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748; Aldrich

To survive; to live longer than another. Fiuch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 58; 1 Leon. 1.

A petition made in court that the judges, for better proof’s sake, will hear or look upon any record. Cowell.

OATH. An external pledge or assevera- lon, made in verification of statements made cr to be made, coupled with an appeal to a sucred or venerated object, in evidence of the serious

The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. Code La. art 3522, no. 12. One who makes a bond.

Withstanding; hindering. See NON OBSTANTE.

That which has been left by the right owner, and Is now possessed by another.

In force; extant; not obsolete; existing as a binding or obligatory power.

A testament by which a testator leaves his property to his family. Sandars, Just. Inst. 207. See INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT. Officit conatus si eflectus sequatur. The attempt becomes of consequence, if the effect

1. In legislative practice, a bill including in one act various separate and distinct matters, and particularly one joining a number of different subjects in one measure in such a way as

In pleading. The name of a plea, fn an action of debt, by which the defendant says that he ought not to be charged.

The ancient time of marriage, from Epiphany to Ash-Wednesday. Opinio est duplex, scilicet, opinio vulgaris, orta inter graves et discretos, et quae vultum veritatis babet; et opinio tantum orta inter leves et

In the civil law. The name of a kind of response or sentence given by the Roman emperors.

Any member of the English house of commons who wishes to propose any question, or to “move the house,” as it is termed, must, in order to give the house due notice

A county which has its lawful officers, legal machinery, and means for carrying out the powers and performing the duties pertaining to it as a quasi municipal corporation. In re Section No.

A method or system of treating various diseases of the human body without the use of drugs, by manipulation applied to various nerve centers, rubbing, pulling, and kneading parts of the body,