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The time of a man’s being sheriff. Cowell. The term of a sheriff’s office.

In medical jurisprudence. A sudden and severe depression of the vital functions, particularly of the nerves and the circulation, due to the nervous exhaustion following trauma, surgical operation, or sudden and violent

Lat. If it be certain who is the person meant.

Lat As at another time, or heretofore. This was a second writ sent out when the first was not executed. Cowell.

An abbreviation in the civil law for “sine fraude sua,” (without fraud on his part.) Calvin.

suit of the suit. The successful party received back his stake; the losing party forfeited his, aud it was paid into the public treasury, to be expended for sacred objects, (in sacris

An elaborate form of non-communistic socialism. It is a scheme which does not contemplate an equal, but an unequal, division of the produce. It does not propose that all should be occupied

A gold coin stamped by Henry V. in France, after his conquests there, whereon the arms of England and France were stamped quarterly. Cowell.

A kind of punishment among the Greeks; inflicted by binding the malefactor fast to a piece of wood. Enc. Lond. SANITARY AUTHORITIES 1056 SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE

in technical use, generally means to comply actually and fully with a demand; to extinguish, by payment or performance. Satius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos. Loli’t, COO. It is better to

In old records, the cucking-stool, (

Lat. In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made “known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a

An approbious epithet, Implying rascality, villainy, or a waut of honor or integrity. In slander, this word Is not actionable per se. 2 Bouv. Inst. 2250.

A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell.

See LAND.

A writ which lay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court. Cowell.

In Scotch law. Certain ancient ordinances of the court of session, conferring upon the courts power to establish general rules of practice. Bell.

Bl. Comm. 66.

Lat. In Roman law. Half-marriage. Concubinage was so called. Tayl. Civil Law, 273.

Lat. Old age. In the Bo- man law, the period of senectus, which relieved one from the charge of public office, was officially reckoned as beginning with the completion of the seventieth