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Eat. But see. This remark, tollowed by a citation, directs the reader’s attention to an authority or a statement which conflicts with or contradicts the state- ment or principle laid down.

In English law. A lordship ; a manor. The rights of a lord, as such, in lands.

In old English law. A ridge of ground rising between two furrows, containing no certain quantity, but sometimes more and sometimes less. Termes de la Ley.

Lat. In Roman law. The senate; the great national council of the Roman people. The place where the senate met. Calvin.

Lat. Separately. Used in indictments to indicate that two or more defendants were charged separately, and not jointly, with the commission of tlie offense in question. State v. Edwards, 00 Mo. 490.

In the civil law. To renounce or disclaim, etc. As when a widow came into court and disclaimed having anything to do with her deceased husband’s estate, she was said to sequester.

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the

Lat In the civil law. Slavery ; bondage; the state of service. Defined as “an institution of tlie conventional Olaw of nations, by which one person is subjected to the dominion of

In conveyancing. A disposition of property by deed, usually through the medium of a trustee, by which its enjoyment is limited to several persons in succession, as a wife, children, or other

In English law. The straying and escaping of cattle out of the lands of their owners into other uninclosed laud; an intercommoning of cattle. 2 H. Bl. 416. It sometimes happens that

“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.