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In criminal law. The protection of one’s person or property against some injury attempted by another. The right of such protection. An excuse for the use of force in resisting an attack

In American law. The name of the upper chamber, or less numerous branch, of the congress of the United States. Also the style of a similar body in the legislatures of several

In Spanish law. Dominion or property.

In old English practice. A writ which issued where a sheriff had returned nihil, upon a summoneas ail warrantizandum, and after an alias and pluries had been issued. So called because tbe

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents;

Lat. In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and per- formance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord, by reason of his fee. Spel- man.

In Scotch law. The gruuter of a tack or lease. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, p. 153.

In old records. Au ancient measure of liquids, aud of dry commodities ; a quarter or seam. Spelman.

A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an- ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep. Wharton.

In maritime law. To put on board a ship; to send by ship. To engage to serve on board a vessel as a seaman.

An old custom of the city of Exeter. A mode of foreclosing the right of a tenant by the chief lord of the fee, in cases of non-payment of rent. Cowell.

Lat. If he acknowledge. In old practice. A writ which lay for a creditor against his debtor for money numbered (pecunia numerata) or counted; that is, a specific sum of money, which

L. Lat In old English law. A service or tenure of finding a sack and a broach (pitcher) to the sovereign for the use of the army. Bract 1. 2, c. 16.

Before mentioned. This word is constantly used in contracts, pleadings, and other legal papers, with the same force as “aforesaid.” See Shattuck v. Balcom, 170 Mass. 245, 49 N. E. S7; Cubine

An inferior and local court of record having jurisdiction in personal actions where the debt or damage sought to be recovered does not exceed

In the original sense of the word, a “sanction” is a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence, a law is said to have

In Scotch law. The symbolical delivery of land, answering to the livery of seisin of the old English law. 4 Kent, Comm. 450.

This phrase, like “more or less,” is frequently introduced into con- veyances or contracts of sale, to indicate that the quantity of the subject-matter is uncertain, and is only estimated, aud to

In Saxon law. An officer having the civil government of a shire, or county; an earl. 1 Bl. Comm. 398.

A troublesome and angry wo- mau, who, by brawling and wrangling among her neighbors, breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a public nui- sance to the neighborhood. 4 Steph. Comm.