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L. Fr. End of blood; failure of the direct line in successions. Spelman ; Cowell.

N 58, 29 C. C. A. 14; Burden Burden (C. C.) 124 Fed. 255.

Lat, Knowingly. The term is used in pleading to signify an allegation (or that part of the declaration or in- dictment which contains it) setting out the defendant’s previous knowledge of the

A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. “The word ‘seal,’ written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument a specialty.”

A shield or coat of arms. Cowell.

ordinary attacks of wind and weather, and is competently equipped and manned for the voyage, with a sufficient crew, and with sufficient means to sustain them, and with a captain of general

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical ; relating to affairs of the present world.

like “sea-shore,” imports a tract of land below high-water mark. Church v. Meeker, 34 Conn. 421.

A writ for delivery of seisin to the lord, of lands and tenements, after the sovereign, in right of his prerogative, had had the year, day, and waste on a felony committed,

Lat. In the civil law. A nursery of trees. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 6.

In old European law. A title of office and dignity, derived from the middle ages, answering to that of steward or high steward in England. Seneschals were originally the lieutenants of the

In English law. The statute 1 Geo. I. St. 2, c. 3S. The act by which a parliament has continuance for seven years, and no longer, unless sooner dissolved; as it always

In the feudal polity, the serfs were a class of persons whose social condition was servile, and who were bound to labor and onerous duties at the will of their lords. They

In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of another, to use them for the benefit of his own. Las Partldas, 3,

To set aside a judgment decree, award, or any proceedings is to cancel, annul, or revoke them at the instance of a party unjustly or irregularly affected by them. State v. Primm,

One who guards the sea-coast; custos maris.

While “shave” is sometimes used to denote the act of obtaining the property of another by oppression aud extortion, it may be used in an innocent sense to denote the buying of

In the practice of the English high court, when a view by a jury Is ordered, persons are named by the court to show the property to be viewed, and are hence

In old records, a shop. Cowell.

Lat. If it be so. Emphatic words in the old writ of mandamus to a judge, commanding him, if the fact alleged be truly stated, (si ita est,) to affix his seal