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The act of scraping, scratching, or shaving the surface of a written in- strument, for the purpose of removing certain letters or words from it. It is to be distinguished from “obliteration,”

Lat. By reason of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230.

A brief term for real property ; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property.

To revoke, cancel, vacate, or reverse a judgment for matters of fact; when it is annulled by reason of errors of law, it is said to be “reversed.”

To claim or demand back; to ask for the return or restoration of a thing; to insist upon one’s right to recover that which was one’s own, but was parted with conditionally

A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.

Fr. In Norman law. To recite or testify on recollection what had previously passed in court This was the duty of the judges and other principal persons who presided at the placitum;

A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.

Sax. Advice; counsel.

In old French and Canadian law. Dues payable by a teuant to his lord, not necessarily in money.

In English practice. A second extent made upon lands or tenements, upon complaint made that the former extent was partially performed. Cowell.

The act of a witness who consults his documents, memoranda, or books, to bring more dis- tinctly to his recollection the details of past events or transactions, concerning which he is testifying.

A collection of the ancient laws of Scotland. It is said to have been compiled by order of David I., king of Scotland, who reigned from A. D. 1124 to 1153. Hale,

In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. g

A term which, In its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. Wills, 061.

An increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocession of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 867, 78 Am. St Rep. 274;

In the civil law. A release of a debt It is conventional, when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the

In feudal law, “render” was used in connection with rents and her- iots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-serv- ice were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only

takes place when a person wTho has been expatriated regains his nationality.

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 351.