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Lat. Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 47a.

Lat. In the civil law. Sister; a sister. Inst. 3, 6, 1.

The possession of sovereign power; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and Its administration ; the self-sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political

Lat. In the civil law. Form; figure; fashion or shape. A form or shape given to materials. A particular thing; as distinguished from “genus.”

A charitable foundation; a hospital for diseased people; a hospital. Cowell.

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In Saxon law. Larceny. Wharton.

Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently

is that which is introduced or governed by stat ute law, as opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have stat- utory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is

The woman who marries a widower, he having a child by his former wife, becomes step-mother to such child.

A salary; settled pay. Man- gam v. Brooklyn, 98 N. Y. 597, 50 Am. Bep. 705. In English and Scotch law. A provision made for the support of the clergy.

Storing Is the keeping merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in tlie same condition as when received, where tbe safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit and not the consumption or

A current of water; a body of liowiug water. The word, in its ordinary sense, includes rivers. But Callis detines a stream “a current of waters ruuuiiig over the level at random,

In pleading. A word essential in au indictment for murder, when the death arises from any wounding, beating, or bruising. 1 Bulst 184; 5 Coke, 122; 3 Mod. 202.

An inferior or subordinate oflicer. An oflicer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior.

In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74.

A sum assessed by way of damages, which is worth having; opposed to nominal damages, which SUBSTANTIVE LAW 1118

passion is not tbe result of a former provocation, and the act must be directly caused by the passion arising out of the provocation at the time of the homicide. It is

Lat In the civil law. One’s own heirs; proper heirs. Inst 2, 19, 2.

on the trial of an action by a jury, is a recapitulation of the evidence adduced, in order to draw the attention of the jury to the salient points. The counsel for