POSTLIMINY
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The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranquility.
It is held that colored Imitations of rugs and carpets and colored working designs, each of them valuable and designed by skilled persons and hand painted, but having no value as works
Lat. In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9.
In the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1 12.
In medical jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as “dementia paralytica.” Popularly, but not very correctly, called “softening of the brain.” See INSANITY.
In military law. A promise given by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless discharged. Webster. An engagement
The details of a claim, or the separate items of an account. When these are stated in an orderly form, for the information of a defendant, the statement is called a “bill
In French. Precedence; right of going foremost
As used in law, this term means inactive; permissive; consisting in endurance or submission, rather than action; and iu some connections it carries the implication of being subjected to a burden or
Lat. The country, neighborhood, or vicinage; the men of the neighborhood ; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with “pais.” Patria laboribns et expensis non debet fatigari. A jury
The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.
An officer of the army or navy whose duty is to keep the pay-accounts and pay the wages of the officers and men. Any official charged with the disbursement of public money.
Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re Wilson. 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. It. A. t’,24 ;
A pilch or surplice. Spelman.
An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period.
Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. llulett. 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1002; State v. McFotridge. 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Ilaney v. Caldwell,
L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for
in a contract, is equivalent to the word “annually.” Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211.
Certain qualifications of a property character being required of persons who tender themselves as bail, when such persons have justified, i. c., es- tablished their sufficiency by satisfying the court that they
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