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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

An agent of the owner of goods shipped as cargo on a vessel, who has charge of the cargo on board, sells the same to the best advantage in the foreign market,

Something added to supply defects in the thing to which it is added, or in aid of which it is made.

An overcharge; an exaction, impost, or incumbrance beyond what Is just and right, or beyond one’s authority or power. “Surcharge” may mean a second or further mortgage. Wharton.

In pleading. The plaintiff’s answer of fact to the defendant’s rejoinder. Steph. l’l. 59.

A person who, as a business, follows an army and sells provisions and liquor to the troops.

So much land as one’s plow can till iu a year; a hide of laud. Cowell.

The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both parts were written on the same piece of parchment, with some word or letters of the alphabet written between them, through

In mining law, the side lines of a mining claim are those which measure the extent of the claim on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. They

In French law. The notice given of a decree, sentence, or other judicial act.

Lat. Simply; without ceremony; in a summary manner. Directly; immediately; as distinguished from inferentially or indirectly. By itself; by its own force; per se.

Sp. In Spanish and Mexican land law, a tract of land in the form of a square, each side of which measures 5,000 varas; the distance from the center of each sitio

A hurdle to draw traitors to execution. 1 Ilale, P. C. 82.

This term is sometimes the equivalent of “heuce,” or “therefore,” and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. State,

A socager.

A note given by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, price, etc. Story, Ag.