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In the Civil law. Ignominy; infamy; shame. Optima est legis interpres consuetudo. Custom is the best interpreter of the law. Dig. 1, 3, 37; Broom, Max. 931; Lofft, 237. Optima est lex

The most ancient species of trial, in Saxon and old English law, being peculiarly distinguished by the appellation of “judicium Dei,” or “judgment of God,” it being supposed that supernatural intervention would

Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a compilation or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation

A garden plot or hor- tilage.

Certain districts or tracts of lands In the Orkney Islands were formerly so called, because each paid an annual tax of one ounce of silver.

In English law. One who is put out of the protection or aid of the law.

In conveyancing, the word “over” is used to denote a contingent limitation intended to take effect on the failure of a prior estate. Thus, in what is commonly called the “name and

In English law. Persons who carried wool, etc., to the sea-side by uight, in order that it might be shipped off contrary to law. Jacob.

Lat In the civil law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor. Whatever is offered to the church by the pious. Calvin. Oblationes dicuntur qusecunque

In the civil law. To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County T. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 573, 69 N. W. 1146.

In Spanish law. Accident. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21; White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 9, c. 2.

In old English law. The eighth day inclusive after a feast; one of the return days of writs. 3 Bl. Comm. 278.

n. An officer; a person invested with the authority of an office. In the civil law. The minister or apparitor of a magistrate or judge. In canon law. A person to whom

An instrument (e. g., a will) wholly written by the person from whom it emanates.

These words, inserted in a stipulation to do an act or pay money, entitle the party stipulating to perform at any time before the day; and upon per- formance, or tender and

The time after com is carried out of the fields.

Nobility; men of the highest rauk. Optimam esse legem, quae minimum relinquit arbitrio judicis; id quod certi- tudo ejus praestat. That law is the best which leaves the least discretion to the

A liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own land; also, the ore lying under land. Cowell.

A license or right to dig and take ore from land. Ege v. Kille, 84 Pa. 340.