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In old English law. An under-bailiff; a sheriff’s deputy. Fleta, lib. 2. c. OS.

When a person who holds a mortgage as security for a loan which he has made, procures a loan to himself from a third person, and pledges his mortgage as security, he

See CONDITION.

One who succeeds to the rights or the place of another: particularly, the person or persons who constitute a corporation after the death or removal of those who preceded them as corporators.

fore trial, his death may be suggested on the record.

Toll for carriage on horseback. Cowell. Simma caritas est facere justitiam singulis, et Omni tempore quando ne- cesse fuerit. The greatest charity is to do justice to every one, and at any

Lat. Upon; above; over.

Lat In practice. A writ ordering the suspension or superseding of another writ previously issued. It directs the officer to whom it is issued to refrain from executing or acting under another

The highest authority in a state, all other powers in it being inferior thereto.

In equity practice. The act by which a party who is entering into a SURPRISE 1128

A temporary stop of a right, of a law, and the like. Thus, we speak of a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, of a statute, of the power of alienating

To enlarge or increase. In an action of tort, circumstances of aggravation may “swell” the damages.

In the civil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota

Lat. In the civil law. A signet-ring; a seal-ring. Dig. 50, 16, 74.

Lat In the civil law. The single value of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 37, 2.

A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of “brother.”

The traffic in slaves, or the buying and selling of slaves for profit

The act, with intent to defraud. of bringing into the United States, or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, or the package

Fr. In French law. Partnership. See COMMENDAM.

A calendar month. See MONTII.