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“When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak- eth an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs

1. The owner of goods who intrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, by charter-party or otherwise. 2. Also, a Dutch word, signifying the master of a ship. It is

The office of sheriff; the period of that office.

Lat. In Scotch practice. So it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379. Sic utere tno nt alienum non laedas. Use

An abbreviation for “senate bill.”

L. Lat. In feudal law. Compurgators; persons who came to purge a defendant by their oath that they believed him innocent

Written or printed directions, delivered by the com- manding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under his care, by which they are enabled to understand and answer

A custom in the city of London called “granage,” formerly payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part Wharton.

Of natural and normal mental condition; healthy in mind.

Lat In the civil law. To guaranty the obligation of a principal.

A chequered cloth resembling a chess-board which covered the table in the exchequer, and on which, when certain of the king’s accounts were made up, the sums were marked and scored with

to become such. See Gordon Y. Cornes. 47 N. Y. 616; Board of Regents v. Painter, 102 Mo. 464. 14 S. W. 938, 10 L. R. A. 493.

See GBETNA GBEEN.

made by a tenant by knight-service in lieu of actual service. 2 Bl. Comm. 74. A pecuniary aid or tribute originally reserved by particular lords, instead or in lieu of personal service,

In international law. The right of search is the right on the part of ships of war to visit and search merchant vessels during war, in order to ascertain whether the ship

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22.

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291.

This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament.” The word “seised” is used to express the “seisin” or

One who sells anything; the party who transfers property in the contract of sale. The correlative is “buyer,” or “purchaser.” Though these terms are not inapplicable to the persons concerned in a

In Roman law. A decision or decree of the Roman senate, having the force of law, made without the concurrence of the people. These enact- ments began to take the place of