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Lat. Otherwise; to the contrary. This word is used in the books to indicate the converse of a foregoing proposition, or the rule applicable to a different state of facts, or an

This word, when written by the drawee on a bill of exchange, amounts to an acceptance by the law merchant. Spear v. Pratt 2 Hill (N. Y.) 5S2, 38 Am. Dec. 600;

The name of certain municipal officers, in the New England states, elected by the towns to transact their general public business, aud possessing certain executive powers. See Felch v. Weare, GO N.

Money paid for synodals.

Lord; a lord. Also the elder. An addition to the name of the elder of two persons having the same name.

Lat. An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body. Sequamur vestigia patrum nostrorum. Jenk. Cent. Let us follow the footsteps of our fathers.

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. Speech is an index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelllgi debet de conditions personae. Language which is

another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jud. 27.

To bring forward or allege, as something relied upon or deemed sufficient; to propose or interpose, by way of defense, explanation, or justification; as, to set up the statute of limitations, t.

Lat. In Boman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two uncice; the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.

Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is

tion less than a dollar. Webster. See Madison Ins. Co. v. Forsythe, 2 Ind. 4S3.

A process, authorized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of

Lat In the civil law. If any one. Formal words in the pnetorian edicts. The words “guis,” though masculine in form was held to include women. Dig. 50, 16, 1. SI quis

In criminal law and torts. A beating of a person, not accompanied by circumstances of aggravation, or not resulting in grievous bodily injury.

See SECURED.

At common law, a bond without penalty; a bond for the payment of a definite sum of money to a named obligee on demand or on a day certain. Burnside v. Wand,

One whose claim or demand accrued or came into existence after a given fact or transaction, such as the recording of a deed or mortgage or the execution of a voluntary conveyance.

A deed whereby the obligor obliges himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money to the obligee at a day named, without terms of defeasance.

A calendar or list of causes, containing those set down specially for hearing, trial, or argument.