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Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; beasts. The term included all quadrupeds that fed in flocks. Dig. 32, 05, 4.

The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman. Also the body of nobles taken collectively.

In ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ec- clesiastical court for some spiritual offense. Ayl. Par. 420.

n Mexico. A debtor held by his creditor in a qualified servitude to work out the debt; a serf. Webster. In India. A footman; a soldier; an inferior officer; a servant employed

Lat. In old practice. At length.

Lat. By himself or itself; in itself; taken alone; inherently; in isolation; unconnected with other matters.

L. Lat A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. Orig. 28.

A dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. Cowell.

Generally, this term denotes the x>erson who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agency it occurs. But, where a servant of a rail- road company is killed through

To persuade is to induce to act. Persuading is inducing others to act. Crosby v. Hawthorn, 25 Ala. 221; Wilson v. State, 3S Ala. 411; Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. (N.

A written address, embodying an application or prayer from the person or persons preferring it, to the power, body, or person to whom it is presented, for the exercise of his or

An instrument by which locks are opened without a key.

One who steals petty things.

A technical word which must always be used in an indictment for piracy. 3 Inst. 112.

In old records. A pleader. Cowell; Spelman.

Debt contracted by gaming.

In the law of bailment. A bailment of goods to a creditor as security for some debt or engagement. A bailment or delivery of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to

A term used in appraising land values and particularly in eminent do- main proceedings, to designate the additional value given to city lots by the fact that they are contiguous, which enables

To steal game on a mau’s laud.

A tax ordained by act of parliament, (18 Car. II. c. 1,) by which every subject in the kingdom was assessed by the head or poll, according to his degree. Cowell. A