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To all to whom the present letters shall come, greeting. A form of address with which charters and deeds were anciently commenced.

See NEW FOR OLD.

One day’s work performed by a tenant for his lord.

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.

In old English law. Without war or feud, such security being provided by the laws, for homicides under certain circumstances, against the fcchth, or deadly feud, on the part of the family

The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferior tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell.

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

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