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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

In old English law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, L 1. Payamcnto, sat- isfaction.

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, iu pamphlet or book form, containing the acts passed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions.

In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wife is divided Into dotal

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the

In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal.

Lat. In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care; he seems to have been incautious, or not sufficiently upon his guard. A form of expression used by the judge

A person whom a common carrier has contracted to carry from one place to another, and has, in the course of PASSIAGIARIU9 880 PATENT Nthe performance of that contract, received under his

Belonging to the gallows.

In ecclesiastical law. He who has the right, title, power, or privilege of presenting to an ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. The former master of an emancipated slave. In French marine law.

To pay is to deliver to a creditor the value of a debt, either in money or in goods, for his acceptance, by which the debt Is discharged. Beals v. Home Ins.

Lat. In Iloman law. Such private property as might be held by a slave, wife, or son who was under the pat Ha po- tcxtas, separate from the property of the father

A peal, pile, or fort. Cowell.

Begun, but not yet completed ; unsettled; undetermined ; in process of settlement or adjustment. Thus, an action or suit is said to be “pending” from its inception until the rendition of

Lat. By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee of the original intruder or disseisor, or against his heir to whom the land has descended, it is said