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Lat. In the civil law. Punishment; corporal punishment for crime. Death was called “ultimum supplicium,” the last or extreme penalty.

The contract of suretyship is that whereby one obligates himself to pay the debt of another in consideration of credit or indulgence, or other benefit given to his principal, the principal remaining

Lat. In old conveyancing. To render up ; to surrender.

See SWEIN; SWEINMOTE.

In logic. The full logical form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion.) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the

I. Frankalmoigne. or free alms. II. Tenure by divine service. Tenure, in its general sense, Is a mode of holding or occupying. Thus, we speak of the tenure of an office, meaning

The name of certain municipal officers, in the New England states, elected by the towns to transact their general public business, aud possessing certain executive powers. See Felch v. Weare, GO N.

Money paid for synodals.

Lord; a lord. Also the elder. An addition to the name of the elder of two persons having the same name.

Lat. An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body. Sequamur vestigia patrum nostrorum. Jenk. Cent. Let us follow the footsteps of our fathers.

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. Speech is an index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelllgi debet de conditions personae. Language which is

another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jud. 27.

To bring forward or allege, as something relied upon or deemed sufficient; to propose or interpose, by way of defense, explanation, or justification; as, to set up the statute of limitations, t.

Lat. In Boman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two uncice; the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.

Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is

tion less than a dollar. Webster. See Madison Ins. Co. v. Forsythe, 2 Ind. 4S3.

A process, authorized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of

Lat In the civil law. If any one. Formal words in the pnetorian edicts. The words “guis,” though masculine in form was held to include women. Dig. 50, 16, 1. SI quis

In old English law. A liberty of holding pleas; the jurisdiction of a manor court; the privilege claimed by a lord of trying actions of trespass between his tenants, in his manor