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In the criminal laws of some of the states, a person who is known or strongly suspected to be an habitual criminal, or against whom there is reasonable cause to believe that

A term colloquially applied to a witness who is unduly zealous or partial for the side which calls him, and who betrays his bias by his extreme readiness to answer questions or

A university committee. A combination of persons or firms united for the purpose of enterprises too large for individuals to undertake; or a group of financiers who buy up the shares of

In ecclesiastical law. The name of a sort of rescript, without seal, containing the supplication, the signature of the pope or his delegate, and the grant of a pardon. In contracts. The

Pure; unmixed; not compounded; not aggravated; not evidenced by sealed writing or record. As to simple “Assault,” “Average,” “Battery,” “Blockade,” “Bond.” “Confession,” “Contract,” “Contract Debt,” “Deposit,” “Interest,” “Larceny,” “Obligation,” “Trust,” and “Warrandice,”

To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Allen v. State, 102 Ga. 010, 29

The condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon

An association or company of persons (generally not Incorporated) unit ed together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider seuse, the community or public; the people in general. See New

Lat. In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land. A ground rent Spelman; Calvin.

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh >v. Dunckel, 25 Hun (N. Y.) 100; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) IS

In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell. SOROR 1098 SOVEREIGN

Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particular purose; confined to a particular purpose, object, person or class. The opposite of “genera”.

1. Coin of the precious metals, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, denoting its value as currency. Trebilcock v. Wilson, 12 Wall. 005, 20 L.

These are inflammable liquids produced by distillation, and forming an article of commerce. See Rlankenship v. State, 93 Ga. 814, 21 S. E. 130; State v. Munger, 15 Vt. 293; Allred v.

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, aud

A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. White, SI N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296. 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen,

the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. II. to the first of Geo. IV.

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with

The man who marries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child.