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The act of a party who objects to some matter or proceeding in the course of a trial, (see OBJECT, V.:) or an argument or reason urged by him in support of

In the civil law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one in- consistent with it. Calvin.

In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plaintiff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court Adams, Rom. Ant. 242.

The main or open sea; the high sea; that portion of the sea which does not lie within the body of any country and is not subject to the territorial jurisdiction or

1. To bring to or before; to present for acceptance or rejection; to hold out or proffer; to make a proposal to; to exhibit something that may be taken or received or

An artificial imitation of butter, made chiefly from animal fats. Its sale is prohibited or restricted by statute in several of the states. See Cook v. State, 110 Ala. 40, 20 South.

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.