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As derelict or abandoned. A species of usucaption in the civil law. Dig. 41, 7.

For greater caution; by way of additional security. Usually applied to some act done, or some clause inserted in an instrument, which may not be really necessary, but which will serve to

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fols. 67, 68.

alone would have been applicable, either in the same or analogous cases, if summary proceedings had not been available. Sweet. Aod see Phillips v. Phillips. 8 N. J. Law, 122; Govan v.

Sp. In Spanish law, an officer appointed to make inquiry, put a petitioner in possession of land prayed for, and execute the orders of the executive in that behalf. See Lecompte v.

To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial In obedience to a subpccna duces tecum.

Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea.

Lat. In Roman law. To make public; to make publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after its enactment.

In Spanish law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public

In Massachusetts colonial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not precisely, equivalent to property. Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 53, 70. In old English law. Property. “Propriety in action; propriety in

A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.

L. Fr. Provable; justifiable; manifest. Kelham.

Kindred between two persons. Dig. 38, 16, 8. Proximus est cui nemo antecedit,

One whose business is the manufacture, promulgation, and sale of books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, or other literary productions.

In old English law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The illegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any rneaus whatsoever. Cowell.

Meaning; import; substantial meaning; substance. Tbe “purport” of an instrument means tbe substance of it as it appears on tbe face of the instrument, and is distinguished from “tenor,” which means an

A “put” In the language of the grain or stock market Is a privilege of delivering or not delivering the subject-matter of the sale; and a “call” is a privilege of calling

the latter’s estate entirely and without any subsequent right of redemption. See Capron v. Attleborough Bank, 11 Gray (Mass.) 403; Appeal of Clark, 70 Conn. 193, 39 Atl. 153.

In the civil law. Lands; estates ; tenements; properties. See PiwiDi- UM.

Lat. In the civil law. That mode of acquisition whereby one becomes proprietor of a thing on the ground that he has for a long time possessed it as his own; prescription.