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Notched on the edge; cut in notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture. See INDENT, V.

A serving-man; particularly applied to students at Oxford, upon the foundation, who are similar to sizars at Cambridge. Wharton.

To adjust ascertain, or liquidate ; to pay. Parties are said to nettle an account when they go over its items and ascertain and agree upon the balance due from one to

Lands given to a church or religious house for maintenance of a sexton or sacristan. CowelL

A deed; so called from the parchment it was written on.

A vessel of any kind employed in navigation. In a more restricted and more technical sense, a three-masted vessel navigated with sails. The term “ship” or “shipping,” when used in tills Code,

Although the words “show” and “indicate” are sometimes interchangeable in popular use, they are not always so. To “show” is to make apparent or clear by evi- dence; to prove; while an

Sax. A relative or kinsman. Used In the Scotch tongue, but not now In English.

Quae ad nmm fj~nem loquuta rant, non debent ad alium detorqneri. 4 Coke, 14. Those words which are spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another. Quae coherent personae

In maritime law. The name of an ancient officer, whose business was to load and unload vessels laden with salt, corn, or fish, to prevent the ship’s crew defrauding the merchant by

In insurance law. To put to sea; to begin a voyage. The least locomotion, with readiness of equipment and clearance, satisfies a warranty to sail. Pittegrew v. I’ringle, 3 Barn. & Adol.

A body of law framed by the Salian Franks, after their settlement In Gaul under their king Pharamond, about the beginning of the fifth century. It is the most ancient of the

In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privileges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor

In old English law. A kind of wear with flood-gates, most commonly in cut rivers, for the shutting up and letting out of water, as occasion required, for the more ready passing

In Hindu law. Variable imposts distinct from laud, rents, or revenues; consisting of customs, tolls, licenses, duties on goods; also taxes on houses, shops, ba- zaars, etc. Wharton.

In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court. Cowell.

In old English law. A tax, or tribute; one’s share of a contribution.

In old European law. Shaken or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.

Sailors; mariners; persons whose business is navigating ships. Commonly exclusive of the officers of a ship.

“A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, but con- stituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects