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Iu medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into foeticide, or tlie destruction of the foetus in utcro, and infanticide, or the

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract, fol. 67

In old records. Purport ; intention or meaning. Cowell.

For; on account of. The initial word of several Latin phrases.

Looking forward; contemplating the future. A law is said to be prospective (as opposed to retrospective) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment.

The title given to an officer who officiates as principal clerk of some courts. Vin. Ahr. See Trehilcox v. McAlpine, 46 Hun (N. Y.) 469; Whitney v. Hopkins, 135 Pa. 246, 19

Lat. In English history. Those acts of parliament which were passed to curb the arbitrary power of the crown. See PBOVISION.

In the law of evidence. A fact which can only be perceived mentally; such as the motive by which a person is actuated. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 130, 131.

Lat. In the civil law. A child; one of the age from seven to fourteen, including, in this sense, a girl. But it also meant a “boy,” as distinguished from a “girl;”

Relating to punishment; having the character of punishment or penalty ; inflicting punishment or a penalty.

A purpresture may be defined as an inclosure by a private party of a part of that which belongs to and ought to be open and free to the enjoyment of the

In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day.

The form or mode of proceeding in courts of justice for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs, as distinguished from the substantive law which gives the right or deuouuces

Lat. In Roman law. A robber. See Dig. 50, 17, 120.

Lat. A passing over or omission. Used in the Roman law to describe the act of a testator in excluding a given heir from the inheritance by silently passing him by, that

Day-works which the tenants of certain manors were bound to give their lords in harvest time. Magna precaria was a great or general reaping day. Cowell.

In French law. A portion of an estate or inheritance which falls to one of the co-heirs over and above his equal share with the rest, and which is to be taken

the same kind or class. See State v. Cheraw & G. R. Co., 16 S. C. 528.

T. Ashenfelter, 4 N. M. 93, 12 Pac. 879; State y. Archibald, 5 N. D. 359, 60 N. YV. 234; Du- luth Elevator Co. v. White. 11 N. D. 534, 90 N.

One placed in authority over others; a chief officer; a presiding or managing officer; a governor, ruler, or director. The chairman, moderator, or presiding officer of a legislative or deliberative body, appointed