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To come to an eud; to cease to be; to die. PERISHA3LE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the terra may embrace

In old English law. A purchaser; one who first acquired an estate to his family; one who acquired an estate by sale, by gift, or by any other method, except only that

The fourth part of an acre. Cowell.

A stone weight. Cowell.

by members of a trade union on strike, consists in posting members PICKLE 899 PIN-MONEY at all the approaches to the works struck against, for the purpose of observing and re- porting

In English law. Boards of commissioners appointed and authorized for the regulation and appointment of pilots, each board having jurisdiction within a prescribed district.

In old English law. Money, commonly a penny, paid for pitching or setting down every bag of corn or pack of goods in a fair or market. Cowel

The day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead and make his defense. Cowell.

Alleged or averred, in form, iu a judicial proceeding. It more often refers to matter of defense, but not invariably. To say that matter in a declaration or replication is not well

Pledges to prosecute with effect an action of replevin.

Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service to plow the lord’s lands.

Lat In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one’s mind; drawing back from an agreement already made, or rescinding It

To poll a jury is to require that each juror shall himself declare what is his verdict.

1. A combination of persons or corporations engaged in the same business, or for the purpose of engaging in a particular business or commercial or speculative venture, where all contribute to a

Lat. In the civil law. The birthright portion; that portion of an inheritance to which a given heir is entitled, and of which he cannot be deprived by the will of the

The detention and control, or the manual or ideal custody, of any- thing which may be the subject of property, for one’s use and enjoyment, either as owner or as the proprietor

This is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the correlative of which is the word “priority.” Thus, a man who held lands or tenements of two lords was said to

The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, aud stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.