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A celebrated decision of the English king’s bench, in 1771, (20 IIow. St. Tr. 1.) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist

A mortuary, or customary gift due ministers, in many parishes of Eng- land, on the death of parishioners. It was originally voluntary and intended as amends for ecclesiastical dues neglected to be

Lat. A sword-bearer. Blount

An execution which, by the direction of the judge at nisi prius. issues forthwith, or on some early day fixed upon by the judge for that purpose after the trial of the

Lat. In the civil law. I undertake; I engage. Inst. 3, 16, 1.

As used to designate a certain portion of land within the limits of a city or town, this term may be synonymous with “block,” that is, the smallest subdivision which is bounded

In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their journey. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 53, 57, 58.

A freeholder and farmer In Cumberland. Wharton.

Lat. In the civil law. Established; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 10, 40. pr. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament.

In English law. Current or standard coin, especially silver coin; a standard of coinage.

Relating to stirpes, roots, or stocks. “Stipital distribution” of property is distribution per stirpes; that is, by right of representation.

In stock-brokers’ parlance the term means the double privilege of a “put” and a “call,” and secures to the holder the right to demand of the seller at a certain price withiu

Lat. Of strict right or law; according to strict law. “A license is a thing stricti juris; a privilege which a man does not possess by his own right, but it is

The sum agreed to be paid to an owner of land for trees standing (or lying) upon his land, the purchaser being permitted to enter upon the laud and to cut down

Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, tixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it Calvin.

In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth.

In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either

Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right.

Lat. In the civil law. The condition or quality of a suus hwres, or proper heir. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 9, no. 11; Calvin.

Officers who assisted in collecting the revenues by citing the defaulters therein into the court of exchequer.