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A promissory note payable “on demand” is a present debt, and is payable without any demand. Young v. Weston. 39 Me. 492; Appeal of Andress, 99 Pa. 421.

Lat. By aid and counsel. A civil law term applied to accessaries, similar in import to the “aiding and abetting” of the common law. Often written “ope et consilio.” Burrill.

The misdemeanor committed by a public officer, who under color of his office, wrongfully inllicts upon any person any bodily harm, imprisonment, or other injury. 1 Russ. Crimes, 297; Steph. Dig. Crim.

Lat. In Roman law. A freedmau who obtained his liberty by the direct operation of the will or testament of his deceased master was so called, being the l’reedmau of the deceased,

Lat. In the civil law. The benefit or privilege of order; the privilege which a surety for a debtor had of requiring that his principal should be discussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, before

In American law. Courts of probate jurisdiction, in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

This word, though generally directory only, will be taken as mandatory if the context requires it. Life Ass’n v. St Louis County Assessors, 49 Mo. 518.

1. An allowance made by the United States government to one of its dip- lomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment 2. This term, in its original use, as

L. Fr. Equal.

Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol- lows: 1. Owelty of partition is a sum of money paid by one of two coparceners or cotenants to

In old English law. Scolds or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool.

Lewd; impure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim- inous v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74 ;

(Offered himself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself in court against the other, and the latter did not appear. 1 Reeve, Eng.

In old Scotch law.A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. Sign.

“Office” is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as

A code of maritime laws published at the island of Oleron in the twelfth century by Eleanor of Gui- enne. They were adopted in England successively under Richard I., Henry III., and

Filed; entered or placed upon the files; existing aud remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. 95 (Gil. 71); Snider v. Methvin, 60 Tex. 487.

v. To render accessible, visible, or available; to submit or subject to examina- tion, inquiry, or review, by the removal of restrictions or impediments.

A public officer who unlawfully uses his authority by way of oppres- sion, (q. v.)

To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepuer v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38.