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Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice. Wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W.

One chosen by a college, municipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin.

The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that Is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an “instance side,” distinct from its powers as

A seal commonly used for the sign manual of the sovereign. Wharton. The signet is also used for the purpose of civil justice in Scotland. Bell.

ate church, or any other ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from a cure of souls. It may therefore be held with any parochial cure, without coming under the prohibitions against pluralities. Wharton.

In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred.

This word, in an indictment, adds nothing to the force and effect of the word “kill,” when used with reference to the taking of human life. It is particularly applicable to the

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy- legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.

Lat In the civil law. A partner.

Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings.

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.

See USE.

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.