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The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads (or wampum) which passed amoug the Indians as money. Webster.

Lat In Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales.

Lat. A see; the dignity of a bishop. 3 Steph. Comm. 65.

L. Lat. Seisin. Seisina facit stipitem. Seisin makes the stock. 2 Bl. Comm. 209; Broom, Max. 525, 528.

Lat. In the civil law. Half-full proof; half-proof. 3 BL. Comm. 370. See HALF-PROOF.

In old English law. A seneschal; a steward; the steward of a manor. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 72

Lat. In old English law. A hedge or iuclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4.

In English ecclesiastical law. A judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign’s command, thereby to compel the parson

Fr. These are, in French law, the easements of English law. Brown.

This word appears to be nearly synonymous with “lease.” A lease of mines is frequently termed a “mining set” Brown.

In pleading. Separation ; division. The separation by defendants in their pleas; the adoption, by several defendants, of separate pleas, instead of joining in the same plea. Steph. PI. 257. In estates.

In Hindu law. The iustrument of government or instruction; any book of instructions, particularly containing Divine ordinances. Wharton.

A word used by the authorities of the Roman Church, to specify contemptuously the technical parts of the law, as administered by non-clerical lawyers. Wharton.

A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. See State v. Morgan, 98 N. C. 041, 3 S.

Lat. If [he] make you secure. In practice. The initial and emphatic words of that description of original writ which directs the sheriff to cause the defendant to appear in court, without

An abbreviation of “sine prole,” without issue. Also an abbreviation of “same principle,” or “same point” indicating, when inserted between two citations, that the second involves the same doctrine as the first.

Lat. In the civil and common law. A sacrilegious person; one guilty of sacrilege. Sacrilegus omnium prsedonum cupi- ditatem et scelera superat. 4 Coke, 106. A sacrilegious person transcends the cupidity and

Fr. In French law. A judicial seizure or sequestration of property, of which there are several varieties. See infra.

See INTER- DICTUM SALVIANUM.

Sound understanding; the reverse of insanity, (q. v.)