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Lat. In the law of divorce. Cruelty; anything which tends to bodily harm, and in that manner renders cohabitation unsafe. 1 Hagg. Const. 408.

In old English law. A lord’s right of amercing his tenants in his court. Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47,

Lat Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et hccredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure eujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one.

Fr. Without expense. See RETOUH SANS 1’I:OT

In old English law. A space of time from even-song on Saturday till sun-rising on Monday, in which it was not lawful to take salmon in Scotland and the northern parts of

In old records, the cucking-stool, (

Lat. In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made “known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a

An approbious epithet, Implying rascality, villainy, or a waut of honor or integrity. In slander, this word Is not actionable per se. 2 Bouv. Inst. 2250.

A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell.

A search-warrant is an order in writing, issued by a justice or other magistrate, in the name of the state, directed to a sheriff, constable, or other officer, commanding him to search

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called “sections,” sometimes “arti- cles,” and occasionally “paragraphs.”

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291.

This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament.” The word “seised” is used to express the “seisin” or

To dispose of by sale, (q. v.)

The judges of the court of session in Scotland are called “Senators of the College of Justice.”

tence is one which puts an end to the suit, and regards the principal matter in ques- tiou. An interlocutory sentence determines only some incidental matter in the proceed- ings. Phillim. Ecc.

In old English practice. A writ which issued where a sheriff had returned nihil, upon a summoneas ail warrantizandum, and after an alias and pluries had been issued. So called because tbe

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.