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COURT OP Ga. 27, 11 S. E. 721; HufTmans v. Walker, 26 Grat. (Va.) 316. By “payment” is meant not only the delivery of a sum of money, when such is the
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COURT OP Ga. 27, 11 S. E. 721; HufTmans v. Walker, 26 Grat. (Va.) 316. By “payment” is meant not only the delivery of a sum of money, when such is the
In criminal law. The unnatural carnal copulation of male with male, particularly of a man with a boy; a form of sodomy, (q. v.)
The ball of a foot. 4 Inst. 308.
The full weight of twenty ounces.
Lat. By the heads or polls; according to the number of individuals: share and share alike. This term, derived from the civil law, is much used in the law of descent and
Lat. A real action by which the grantee of a seigniory could compel the tenants of the grantor to attorn to himself. It was abolished by St 3 & 4 Wm. IV.
A perch of land; sixteen and one-half feet. See PEIICH.
In old practice. Parchment. In pcrgamcno scribi fccit. 1 And. 54.
A writ to an ordinary, commanding him to admit a clerk to a benefice upon exchange made with another. Reg. Orig. 307.
In modern civil law. The incidence of a law or statute upon persons, or that quality which makes it a personal law rather than a real law. “By the personality of laws,
Lat Of th
A practitioner of medicine; a person duly authorized or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 R.
Lat. In the civil law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for
See CHARITABLE USES.
In old English law. The public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually consulted upon the great affairs of the kingdom. Also pleas, pleadings, or debates, and
is called the “use plaintiff.” PLAN. A map, chart, or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane surface of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced
In old records. A mother church.
Lat In the civil law. Full ownership; the property in a thing united with the usufruct. Calvin
In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candidate over those cast for any other. Where there are only two candidates, he who receives the greater number
between the assured and the underwriter, but is left to be estimated in case of loss. The term is opposed to “valued policy,” in which the value of the subject insured is