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In English ecclesiastical law. The corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. 2 Bl. Comm. 278. An unlawful con- tract for presenting a clergyman to

In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Bell.

A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Webster. One

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount.

Lat. In the civil law. Partnership ; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst. 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united in a

In Spanish law. Land; the demesne, with a house, situate in a strong or fortified place. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3,

In the civil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 10, 48. In Scotch practice. Purged. A term used in old depositions.

If there is no time specified for the performance of an act, or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, tlie law implies that it is to be

The produce of the taxes appropriated to pay the interest of such part of the English national debt as was advanced by the South Sea Company and its annuitants. The holders of

A method of compounding an offense, allowed in the English practice, where the court permits a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor to speak with the prosecutor before judgment is pronounced; if the

Those profits which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from his ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in

Lat. In Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary donation; an official perquisite; something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst. 4, 6, 24.

A resident. Cowell.

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word “shctar,” a covenant. By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be

ranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statistics, or facts which illustrate the former con- dition of a state; (2)

One who is skilled In the art of short-hand writing; one whose business is to write iu short-hand. See Ry- nerson v. Allison. 30 S. C. 534, 9 S. E. 050; In

A stillborn child is one born dead or in such an early stage of pregnancy as to be incapable of living, though not actually dead at the time of birth. Children born

The name of an order grantable in English chancery practice, to prevent drawing out a fund in court to the prejudice of an assignee or lienliolder.

In old English law. A surveyor of the highways.

The disbarring ol an attorney or solicitor.