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Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts of the early colonial period in New York. See Spraker

In bankruptcy practice. Opposition is the refusal of a creditor to assent to the debtor’s discharge under the bankrupt law. In French law. A motion to open a judgment by default aud

Deprivation of one’s parents or children, or privation in general. Little used.

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called “ordincs majores;” and the inferior

In the civil law. Managers of houses for orphans.

In Saxon law. Oathsworth ; oathworthy ; worthy or entitled to make oath. Bract, fols. 185, 292b

A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of his

L. Fr. With. Modern French avcc.

An opening; a proposal.

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