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To give security; to assure of payment, performance, or indemnity; to guaranty or make certain the payment of a debt or discharge of an obligation. One “se- cures” his creditor by giving

An insurrectionary movement tending towards treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state. The distinction between “sedition” and

See SEISIN.

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

Lat. Old age. In the Bo- man law, the period of senectus, which relieved one from the charge of public office, was officially reckoned as beginning with the completion of the seventieth

Lat. In old conveyancing. Severally. A word which made a several covenant 5 Coke, 23a.

In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the ua- ture of a levari facias, commanding the bish- _op to euter into the rectory and parish fl church, and to take and sequester

In Scotch practice. To render a verdict or decision in favor of a person claiming to be an heir; to declare the fact of his heirship judicially. A jury are said to

In English law. A tax, rate, or assessment.

The grantor or donor In a deed of settlement.

As used in statutes and similar instruments, this word is generally imperative or mandatory; but it may be construed as merely permissive or directory, (as equivalent to “may,”) to carry out the

A court held before the lord warden of the Cinque Ports. A writ of error lay from the mayor and Jurats of each port to the lord warden in this court, and

ters and mariners; and the law relating to ship-brokers, ship-agents, pilots, etc.

A “pettifogging shyster” is an unscrupulous practitioner who disgraces his profession by doing mean work, and resorts to sharp practice to do it. Bailey v. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 251. See,

A little current of water, which is dry in summer; a water furrow or gutter. Cowell.

An abbreviation for “same case.” Inserted between two citations, it indicates that the same case is reported in both places. It is also an abbreviation for “supreme court,” and for “select cases;”

L. Lat. In feudal law. Compurgators; persons who came to purge a defendant by their oath that they believed him innocent

Before mentioned. This word is constantly used in contracts, pleadings, and other legal papers, with the same force as “aforesaid.” See Shattuck v. Balcom, 170 Mass. 245, 49 N. E. S7; Cubine

An inferior and local court of record having jurisdiction in personal actions where the debt or damage sought to be recovered does not exceed

In the original sense of the word, a “sanction” is a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence, a law is said to have