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The sum agreed to be paid to an owner of land for trees standing (or lying) upon his land, the purchaser being permitted to enter upon the laud and to cut down

Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, tixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it Calvin.

In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth.

In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either

Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right.

Lat. In the civil law. The condition or quality of a suus hwres, or proper heir. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 9, no. 11; Calvin.

Officers who assisted in collecting the revenues by citing the defaulters therein into the court of exchequer.

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Lat. In the civil law. Punishment; corporal punishment for crime. Death was called “ultimum supplicium,” the last or extreme penalty.

The contract of suretyship is that whereby one obligates himself to pay the debt of another in consideration of credit or indulgence, or other benefit given to his principal, the principal remaining

Lat. In old conveyancing. To render up ; to surrender.

See SWEIN; SWEINMOTE.

In logic. The full logical form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion.) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the

I. Frankalmoigne. or free alms. II. Tenure by divine service. Tenure, in its general sense, Is a mode of holding or occupying. Thus, we speak of the tenure of an office, meaning

Span. In Spanish law. A slave. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 21, 1. 1.

The state of a person who does not speak, or of one who refrains from speaking. In the law of estoppel, “silence” implies knowledge and an opportunity to act upon it. Pence

Sine possessione mncapio procedere non potest. There can be no prescription without possession.

In English practice. Officers of tlie court of chancery, who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc.,

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and sep- arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main

In Saxon law. Jurisdiction ; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell.