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Lat. In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of au obligation accepted as satisfactory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of

A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight’s fee. Cowell.

Fr. In French law. Under private signature; under the private signature of the parties. A contract or instrument thus signed is distinguished from an “authentic act,” which is formally concluded before a

See DEMURRER.

The sealer of the royal writs.

Lat. A free gift or present to the crown. Sponte virnm mnlier fugiens et adul- tera facta, dote sua careat, nisi sponsi sponte retracta. Co. Litt 326. Let a SPORTULA 1103

In forest law. One of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king’s deer in the forest. This was when a man was

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477.

In English law. A government office established as a department of the treasury, for the purpose of supplying government offices with stationery and books, and of printing and publishing government papers.

In Scotch law. The crime of aliening the same subject to different persons. 2 Karnes, Eq. 40.

(1) An inferior officer who cuts wood within the royal parks of Clarendon. Cowell. (2) An arbitrator. (3) An obstinate contender about anything.

A person who owns shares of stock in a corporation or joint- stock company. See Mills v. Stewart, 41 N. Y. 3S0; Boss v. Knapp, etc., Co., 77 111. App. 424; Corwith

A deception either by words or actions, iu times of war, in order to obtain au advantage over an enemy.

In English practice. The flrst step in the proceedings in bankruptcy, which consists in making affidavit of the debt and giving a bond to follow up the proceediugs with effect. 2 Steph.

Lat. In its own nature. Suaptc natura sterilis, barren in its own nature and quality; intrinsically barren. 5 Maule & S. 170.

A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents. In practice. A submission Is a covenant by which persons who have a lawsuit

The act of writing oue’s name under a written instrument; the affixing one’s signature to any document, whether for the puriiose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as one’s

Lat. In the civil law. A coming in place of another, on his decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his death. This was

Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting iu the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase of oilice.

In old English law. A plow- land. 1 Inst. 5.