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or actions on the part of one person towards another as tend to arouse rage, resentment, or fury in the latter against the former, and thereby cause him to do some illegal

to public notice, or reuderiug it accessible to public scrutiny. 2. As descriptive of tlie publishing of laws and ordinances, “publication” means printing or otherwise reproducing copies of them and distributing them

Lat. In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin.

To cleanse; to clear; to clear or exonerate from some charge or imputation of guilt, or from a contempt.

In old English law. An officer who procured or purchased articles needed for the king’s use at an arbitrary price. In the statute 36 Edw. III. c. 2, this is called a

In feudal law. A kind of benefices, so called because they were possessed by the more eminent templars, whom the chief master by his authority created and called “frwecptores Templi.”

A term formerly used in English politics to describe a borough entitled to send a representative to parliament, in which a single individual, either as the principal landlord or by reason of

An artificial boundary, consisting of some monument or landmark set up by the hand of man to mark the beginning or direction of a boundary line of lands.

A natural boundary; a natural object or landmark used as a boundary of a tract of land, or as a beginning point for a boundary line.

Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and tlieir families, are called ‘ ‘private,” as opposed to chapels of case, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within

In English law. Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise

In English law, are chapels founded at some period later than the church itself. They were designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as in course of time had begun

In the civil law. An action in personam. A personal action seeks to enforce an obligation imposed on the defendant by his contract or delict; that is. it is the contention that

In this phrase the word “public” is used, not in the sense that it must be executed openly and in public, but in the sense of being so general and indefinite in

An agent acting for an individual in his private affairs: as distinguished from a public agent, who represents the government in some administrative capacity.

One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever. See In re Keech’s Estate (Surr.) 7 N. Y. Supp. 331; In re Lenox’s Estate

An agent of the public.

In the law of evidence. A communication made to a counsel, solicitor, or attorney, in professional confidence, and which he is not permitted to divulge; otherwise called a “confidential communication.” 1 Starkie,

Such as are either by word of mouth or are committed to writing, but are not under seal. The common law draws only one great line, between things under seal and not

A principal contract is one which stands by itself, justifies its own existence, and is not subordinate or auxiliary to any other. Accessory contracts are those made for assuring the performance of