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The living of one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. Survivorship is where a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived

Showing to a magistrate that one has just cause to be afraid of another in consequence of his menaces, in order to have him bound over to keep the peace.

Lat. A mortuary, or soul-scot.

Lat. In old English law. , A seal; originally and properly a seal impressed upon wax. Sigillum est cera impressa, quia cera sine impressione non est sigillum. A seal is a piece

In the civil law. That kind of wood which was kept for the purpose of being cut In English law. Under wood; coppice wood. 2 Inst. 642; Cowell. All small wood

See FUND.

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Paroch. Antiq. 465.

All personal aud mixed tithes, aud also hops, llax, saffrons, po- tatoes, aud sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called “privy tithes.” 2 Steph. Comm. 720.

Lat In the civil law. A wife’s father; a father-in-law. Calvin.

The lord’s rent gatherer in the soca. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. The solum italicum (an extension of the old Ager llomanus) admitted full ownership, and of the application to it of usueapio; whereas the solum provinciale (an extension of

The husband of one’s daughter.

The origins from which particular positive laws derive their authority and coercive force. Such are constitutions, treaties, statutes, usages, and customs. In another sense, the authoritative or reliable works, records, documents, edicts,

This Is the official designation of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, of one or both branches

Lat. The hope of recovery or recapture; the chance of retaking property captured at sea, which prevents the captors from acquiring complete ownership of the property until they have definitely precluded it

A surety; one who makes a promise or gives security for another, partic- ularly a godfather in baptism. In the civil law. One who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being re-

A writ called by that name, founded on a custom in Normandy, that where a man in power claimed lands in the possession of an inferior, he petitioned the prince that it

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, com- bination of maintenance, or overawing influence that

In English law. The hall of the stationers’ company, at which every person claiming copyright in a book must register his title, in order to be able to bring actions against persons

Fr. In French law. A party who fraudulently mortgages property to which he has no title.